News: Recently, a new green hydrogen and green ammonia policy has been introduced that envisages building a prominent role for clean fuels in the country’s fossil fuel-dominated energy mix. Contents1 What does the policy offer? 2 What are some issues with the policy? 3 Why is Hydrogen important for India? 4 What is the way forward? What… Continue reading Making Green Hydrogen work
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Manufacturing exports can gain from India’s empowerment push
News: The recent released Budget 2022-23 carries forward the government’s vision of empowering Indians and enabling economic activity. This article discusses how manufacturing can help India in empowering people and increase the growth rate. How manufacturing exports can help India’s empowerment push? First, the weakening of manufacturing in many developed nations has caused social divisions… Continue reading Manufacturing exports can gain from India’s empowerment push
Method to the Make-in-India plan: Decoding our import tariff policy
News: According to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Tariff Profile for 2021, India has one of the highest average tariffs of 15% in the Asia-Pacific region. Contents1 This article discusses the need to align Make-in-India with trade policy.2 What other countries are doing?3 What does India need to learn from previous agreements?4 What is the… Continue reading Method to the Make-in-India plan: Decoding our import tariff policy
Address the challenges of doing ESG ratings at the onset
News: Recently, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has come out with a paper on how credit-rating agencies (CRAs) should go about ESG exercise. The article says there is need of proper assessment before allowing CRAs to become ESG rating agencies. How Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing is becoming the ‘next big… Continue reading Address the challenges of doing ESG ratings at the onset
India’s Ukraine dilemma
News: As Russian pressure increases over Ukraine, it is time that India changes its perspective towards central Europe. Read here: Explained: What are India’s stakes in its ties with Ukraine and Russia? What is the issue? Russia has raised the tensions over Ukraine and set his demands of security guarantee from NATO. India has largely remained… Continue reading India’s Ukraine dilemma
Online courses by autonomous colleges: UGC gets Bold
News: UGC (University Grants Commission) is planning to allow autonomous colleges that are under top-100 ranks in the NIRF subject rankings or having NAAC-grade higher than 3.26 to offer online degrees from the next academic session. What are the implications of this move? Quality education: Although many universities are offering online degrees but allowing prestigious… Continue reading Online courses by autonomous colleges: UGC gets Bold
Use international law, call out China’s violations
News: In the recent foreign affairs meeting of Quad, India’s External Affairs minister said that the situation at the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC) has arisen due to the “disregard” by China of written agreements. Read here: Why India-China Border disputes are unresolved? Contents1 What is the base of India-China agreements?2 What are the violations done… Continue reading Use international law, call out China’s violations
India-US partnership for post-pandemic world
News: There are ample opportunities in the post-pandemic works in which India and USA can work together. The present geostrategic and geoeconomic situation demands greater economic cooperation between India and US. During the pandemic, both India and US cooperated to airlift hundreds of millions of free doses of vaccines to low-income countries. What are the challenges… Continue reading India-US partnership for post-pandemic world
No slacking: On action plans against antimicrobial resistance
News: Lancet recently released its report on the Global Burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Also read: Living in a world of emerging antimicrobial resistance What are the findings of the Lancet report? Report states AMR deaths to be around 4.95 million in 2019. It identifies the main reason behind this resistance is pathogens and the pathogen–drug… Continue reading No slacking: On action plans against antimicrobial resistance
Tapping technology for multilingual learning
News: Mother tongue represents an individual or a community’s cultural identity. Thousands of different languages are spoken in India, making India’s cultural diversity unique in the world. But this uniqueness is vanishing in present times. What is the reason behind declaration of International Mother Language Day? Languages are the key bridges that ensure cultural and civilizational… Continue reading Tapping technology for multilingual learning
