Anand Sharma feels keeping out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a backward leap
‘We are missing out big time, something which 15 countries are ready to be part of cannot be bad for India’
The dairy sector is one of the few success stories in India's recent agriculture history
If India has to emerge as a global superpower, a $5 trillion economy, it has to take the leadership position to ink such partnerships in the near future.
Having invested all its political capital in Kashmir, the BJP cannot take foreign policy decisions by ignoring domestic compulsions.
The delay in firming up the RCEP during the three-day ASEAN summit in Bangkok had been attributed to India's demands on market access and tariff-related issues.
Earlier, the Gandhi scion had asserted that Make in India had become Buy from China, claiming the proposed free trade deal will flood the country with cheap goods, resulting in millions of job losses and crippling the economy.
The proposed free-trade agreement includes 10 member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and six of the bloc’s dialogue partners — China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.