West Bengal — through its women-centric decentralised governance — has been able to overcome decades of political and financial subjugation to...

While contemplating any move to weed out counterfeit currencies, the government must act mindfully as the country has already experienced the...

World Economic Forum — founded as a symposium of European executives in 1971 — is no more able to sell the ideas of equality, transparency, respect...

India should refrain from aligning with the US-proposed Indo-Pacific Economic Framework in order to avoid another Cold War, and rather strive to...

Owing to its high import dependency, the household- and transportation-driven consumption of natural gas has been on a decline but, riding on the...

While Bangladesh will face most towering challenges among textile- and cloth-exporting graduating LDCs, West Bengal, in the neighbouring India, stands...

With incompatibilities between democracy and capitalism manifesting into socio-economic inequalities, the ‘third sector’ — led by CSOs — could emerge...

IMF’s rosy estimate of abysmal poverty in India is not just in sharp contradiction with more realistic findings of other prominent institutions and...

India's stance on FTAs — aimed at diversification of export markets, cheaper access to capital goods, attracting foreign investment and emboldening...

While misgovernance, nepotism, corruption and neo-nationalism of Sinhalese Buddhists are attributed as primary causal factors behind the historic...

In the new Asia-centric world order, India and China should bring in greater consistency in their bilateral and multilateral relations for a peaceful...

The government, in the post-liberalisation era, appeared to pass greater control to private players in exploration and production and decided to...