Making cities smart and sustainable would mean creating career and business opportunities that keep up with the changing social scenario, especially in the context of creating safe and affordable housing and building resilient economies. ...
Lipulekh and Kalapani — a trijuncture of India-Nepal and China — are of geostrategic and geopolitical importance as India can keep an eye against any attempt of encroachment by China or the movement of People’s Liberation Army towards India. ...
As a bigger regional power, it is incumbent upon India to make the first move and demonstrate its benevolence. New Delhi needs to rein in the present regional situation by building new joint border dispute mechanisms that are equipped to deal with current issues more efficiently. ...
Japan-UK ties are to strengthen in a post-COVID-19 world, and there are economic and strategic reasons. Closer ties between them are important not just in a bilateral context, but in the Indo-Pacific region as well. ...
As thousands of Indians are returning to their homeland, the Indian economy will be affected badly as it is already going through an economic recession, with rising unemployment. Both India and the Gulf will lose a significant part of their partnership - the diaspora links. ...
The formation of multiple sub regional initiatives and organization with India’s lead has further derailed if not damaged the process of wholesome regional integration. ...
China’s pandemic management model relies on a heavy-handed application of quarantine and lockdown. There is an ongoing debate on the effectiveness and political implications of quarantines since the Ebola pandemic. ...
The two countries must work for ensuring adequate production and supply of medical equipment through enhanced protocols of channelization and also focus on collaborating the Indian strength of fiber to fabric and America’s technological superiority to extract amenable advantages. ...
The need for regulation of the digital intermediaries cannot be debated but the selection of an appropriate method for escalation still needs to be reassessed. The co-regulation model is a more dependable system of regulation as it allows the public and private players to work as collaborators resulting in cooperation between state, civil society, and market players. ...
Shaping the Global Partnership for Combatting COVID-19
It is time for all the governments to strictly ensure that any measures taken to counter the pandemic must be necessary and proportionate, pursue legitimate purposes, be limited in time, be non-discriminatory and respectful of international law, including human rights law. ...