Tag: ORF

Judicial infrastructure: Will National Judicial Infrastructure Corporation help? (Nirajan Sahoo, Jibran Khan, ORF)

While inaugurating the annexe building of the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court on 23 October 2021, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V....

Is the United States finally playing its cards right in Southeast Asia? (Premesha Saha, ORF)

The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, recently embarked on his maiden Southeast Asia tour starting with the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, after which he was...

Combatting air pollution in Northern India: Cooperative federalism is the way forward (Neeraj Singh, ORF)

As winter air pollution chokes the northern region of India, and is even spreading to far off states like West Bengal, there is a...

Delhi-Dhaka: A model for the neighbourhood (Harsh V. Pant, Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy, ORF)

President Ramnath Kovind was on a State visit to Bangladesh from December 15-17. His visit to attend Bangladesh’s 50th Vijay Dibos served two purposes....

What constitutes democracy is for actual democracies to define (Harsh V. Pant, ORF)

India has a role no less important than America’s in exposing the falsehood of Chinese claims on representative governance What constitutes democracy is for actual...

Celebrating a unique 50-year relationship: India and Bangladesh are development partners with worrying challenges (Pinak Chakravarty, ORF)

December 16 is celebrated as “Victory Day” or “Bijoy Dibosh” in Bangladesh and India. The date has gone down in history as the day...

Myanmar: Repercussions over the current verdict on Aung San Suu Kyi (Sreeparna Banerjee, ORF)

The recent move by the military court to imprison the ex-State Counsellor for two years is considered to be a major “blow to democracy”...

Biden, Beijing Olympics, and Uyghur oppression (Ayjaz Wani, ORF)

On 6 December, 2021, the Biden administration announced that the US government officials will boycott the upcoming winter Olympics in Beijing citing grave human...

Transforming denial into deliberation: The case of manual scavenging (Bhanivi Saraf, Siddharth Verma, ORF)

While distributing the Swachh Survekshan Awards in November by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, President Ram Nath Kovind called manual scavenging a shameful practice,...

Recurring fires in city hospitals (Ramanath Jha, ORF)

What can be a greater tragedy than the loss of human lives in the very place where the ill have gone to heal and...

Sri Lanka: ‘Internationalising’ fisheries issue with India will have consequences (Sathiya Moorthy, ORF)

Reports that Sri Lanka’s Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda has taken up the long-standing fishers’ issue involving neighbouring India with US Ambassador Martin K. Kelly in Colombo...

Short-sightedness in Colombo (Harsh V. Pant, ORF)

During Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s visit to India earlier this month, the two nations have seemingly agreed to work out a cooperation...

Western tech can protect Central Asia from the Afghan scenario (Anatoly Motkin, ORF)

What is happening in Afghanistan can have a direct impact on Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan—six moderate Muslim states with a population...

What the Taliban–IS rivalry means for South Asia (Kabir Taneja, ORF)

Afghanistan has vacated the front pages of the global news cycle as the Taliban consolidates its hold on the country after 20 years of...

The Geopolitics of Energy Transition: A Guide for Policymakers, Executives, and Investors (Alexis A. Crows, Samir Saran, ORF)

As the price of natural gas reached record highs in the UK and Europe—trading at the equivalent of $200 per barrel of oil, and as...

India’s strategic petroleum reserves: Cost and benefit (Lydia Powell, Akhilesh Sati, Vinod Kumar Tomar, ORF)OMAR

On 23 November 2021, the US administration authorised the release of 50 million barrels of crude oil from the strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) operated by the...