Brookings India

Labourers work at a coal stockyard in East Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, India, September 16, 2015. A senior Indian politician has been lobbying New Delhi to lift a ban on dangerous, small-scale coal mining operations in his state, without disclosing that his wife owns several mines there, according to documents seen by Reuters. So-called "rat-hole" mining practised in Meghalaya state killed thousands of workers, including children, before the ban was imposed in April last year. At its peak the state produced coal worth $4 billion a year, or about a tenth of India's total production, nearly all from this form of small-scale mining. Picture taken September 16, 2015. REUTERS/Krishna N. Das

Why India’s push for private-sector coal mining won’t raise carbon emissions

Monday, July 20, 2020

Students arrive for class at Mahnomen Elementary School in Mahnomen, Minnesota September 26, 2013. The U.S. government may have headed off some of the most dire predictions about the "sequester," but over seven months, the across-the-board spending cut has thrown sand into the gears of the economic recovery. Mahnomen school district, which serves the White Earth Indian reservation in Minnesota, lost 3 percent of its funding due to the sequester. The district didn't replace a teacher who retired and has scaled back on homework tutoring and an alternative-school program for teenage mothers. Another year of cuts could force the school to lay off teachers and scale back bus service, superintendent Jeff Bisek says. To match Insight USA-BUDGET/SEQUESTER Picture taken September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Dan Koeck (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E99S159X01

ICE’s international student ban is a politicised pandemic response that hurts America

Bhaskar Chakravorti

Friday, July 10, 2020

India and the European Union: Next steps in strategic partnership

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM IST

Punakha Dzong, the administrative centre and the seat of the Government of Bhutan until 1955

Bhutan’s democratic transition and ties to India

Constantino Xavier

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

social media

Digital light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel for India?

Bhaskar Chakravorti

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Digital contact tracing’s mixed record abroad spells trouble for US efforts to rein in COVID-19

Bhaskar Chakravorti

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the group photo session during the BRICS Summit at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center in Xiamen, southeastern China's Fujian Province, China September 4, 2017. REUTERS/Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Pool

Why Jagat Mehta would have seen Xi in the Mao mould, not Deng

Vikram Singh Mehta

Monday, July 6, 2020

Chittaurgarh open mines

Mining and Jurisprudence: Observations for India’s mining sector to improve environmental and social performance

Srestha Banerjee

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

The Taj Mahal was commissioned by Shah Jahan in 1631, to be built in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal,

Mughal empire and the making of a region: Locating South Asia in early modern international order

Sofia Shehana Basheer

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Web workshop with the office of the Principal Accountant General (Audit), Bihar

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM IST