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Indian Science and Technology landscape: a leap for a better future
India produces a large quantity of scientific research, ranking 4th globally in terms of total research publications in 2020 according to Elsevier SciVal and having the 9th largest number of publications in journals included in the Science Citation Index. However, the country is comparatively lower in terms of the innovation environment it offers, being placed
Indian Science and Technology landscape: a leap for a better future
Opinion on Camera
As the world confronts a widening gap between intensifying climate impacts and the slow pace of action to tackle the crisis,1 this report, now in its fourth edition, continues to examine how people engage with climate change news and information. This analysis draws on four years of comparable data collected in the same eight countries: Brazil,
The year 2025 marked an inflection point: Policy overhauls across Western economies—particularly in trade, investment, and industrial policy—triggered spillover effects across all major global markets. India was not immune to these shifts. Intricately connected to global value chains, India, the world’s fourth-largest economy and a major global trading partner, faced external shocks and acute effects
Some long books are mesmerising, keeping the reader gripped as if in a fast-paced novel. Tony Judt’s Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 is a prime example. But, to paraphrase former US vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen in a famous debate with Dan Quayle, Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian are not Tony Judt; their 760-page A Sixth of Humanity is
As the dust settles on a tumultuous year for South Asia, India stands as an island of relative political stability. Yet, beneath macroeconomic optimism and geostrategic posturing, an old, persistent malaise continues to corrode the structural integrity of the republic: political corruption. For decades, the Indian voter’s relationship with corruption was defined by a cynical fatalism—a belief
Carney’s comments came after some of his political opponents in Canada criticised him for inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit
