India and Nepal shares a border of 1850 kilometres India and Nepal have been close neighbours and shared unique friendship. Nepal shares a border of 1850 kilometres with five Indian states – Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand. The bedrock of the friendship lies in the Indo Nepal Treaty of peace and friendship of […]
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Nepali expansionist ambitions & why they are wrong
Nepali expansionist ambitions and why they are wrong. India and Nepal are natural partners India and Nepal are natural partners closely knit together by culture and geography. Both countries derive their understanding of the Indo-Nepal boundaries from the Treaty of Sugauli. Recently, both countries are facing a dispute which has arisen from different interpretations of […]
Increasing Heat Waves : Climate is Chang
Increasing Heat Waves: Extreme heat events, excessive rainfall, floods, droughts, etc. have become new normals today. Climate is changing at a faster pace, oceans are rising, lands becoming infertile and all because of us, the humans. One such event which adds to the woes of people in most places around the globe is increasing heat […]
Land Reforms Ownership & the way forward
Land Reforms Ownership & the way forward India is the seventh largest country in the World in terms of landmass although not everyone in the country has access to land. Even if one has access, our complex land ownership rules make things difficult. Since the British Raj, people like small farmers, labourers have just suffered […]
Apologies and Atonement
Apologies and Atonement Humankind is in the 21st century. The last century saw the rise of many independent nation-states which struggled their way to achieve independence or through disintegrations. We have witnessed Human rights movements across the world during this time. It is not wrong to say that this century changed the face of the […]
WELCOME TO INDIA
WELCOME TO INDIA : ‘The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans’. We don’t own the planet Earth instead we belong to it and in order to survive we must share it with our wildlife. Keeping this in mind the Supreme Court of our country allowed the […]
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master What is AI ? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a wide-ranging branch of computer science that is concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. It is the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think […]
THE SILIGURI CORRIDOR
What is the Siliguri corridor? India’s vulnerable ‘CHICKEN’S NECK’, the Siliguri corridor is the slimmest point, a narrow stretch of about 22 kilometres in the state of West Bengal with the Bangladeshi and Nepalese borders on either side of it, and kingdom of Bhutan in the northern side of the corridor. It connects India’s north […]
India’s Think Tanks Can Be Truly Effective.
A think tank is a body of experts who provide advice and ideas on specific political, economic, cultural, technological and military related issues. India stands fourth on footing in the number of think tanks in the world. Several of Indian think tanks usually feature in the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index. Some think […]
Knowledge Economy for 5-Trillion Economy
Knowledge Economy for 5-Trillion Economy: Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid out the mission to make India a $5-trillion economy by 2024. We are a $2.7 trillion economy currently at the end of FY19. To reach this goal of 5 trillion club growth of 8-9% would be required in the years ahead. Achieving this kind of […]