The purchase of a product has conventionally also meant acquiring a broad set of rights attached to it. Thus, control was incidental to ownership. However, the rise of access-based consumption and servitisation has separated ownership from the practical ability to control a product throughout its useful life. This tension is apparent in the right to repair. Under servitisation, product users lack formal titles and depend on manufacturers for repair. At present, manufacturers

In recent years, the relationship between India and Japan has evolved significantly, transforming this partnership from primarily economic cooperation to one of the most critical strategic defence partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region.

Credits: Shapernet Foreign direct investment refers to long-term capital flows by foreign investors into the recipient country, typically aiming to secure a controlling stake in a local enterprise. Key economic spillovers like technology transfer, job creation, market competitiveness, and current account stability incentivise the destination country to more readily accept long-term overseas investment over other short-term capital inflows. The stakes for developing econo

In early 2026, scientists around the world observed the first warning signs of a potentially very strong El Niño—a Pacific Ocean phenomenon that had the power to disrupt weather patterns and send ripples through economies worldwide.

Credits: National Cadet Corps We generally see the expiry date written on the back of any packaged food, trust it and buy it, but what happens when even these dates can’t be trusted? Recently, between August 24 and 29, 2026. A major food safety raid took place in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, by the Food and Drug Administration under Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe. The operation targeted Sadhna Enterprises, where original manufacturing and expiry dates on packaged food products wer

The modern world system has been characterized by relatively unstable happenings that have determined the course of history. Starting with the dissolution of the Soviet Union to the COVID-19 pandemics, unpredictable “Black Swan” events have determined the core order, changed the nature of strategic warfare, and geopolitics. Conversely, the long-simmering issue of hostility toward Taiwan was globally predicted until it reached its boiling point, becoming a "Grey Rhino": a high

A New Islamic Bloc Changing the Global Chessboard?

Credit: Pexels When India's next major industrial cluster enters the market, such as a Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) node in a Tier-2 city or a National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in a mid-sized manufacturing district, it will enter a regulatory environment that has already decided, by design, that it does not quite belong. This is a consequence of the regulations and frameworks designed for cities with enterprise-grade auditing infrastructure, certif

India's tenure filter is locking its most climate-exposed urban households out of the adaptation schemes designed to protect them.

The policy looks well-equipped on paper, yet the latest figures indicate the official C&D recycling rate at a mere 5 %.

Donald Trump has once again placed the Abraham Accords at the centre of his foreign policy agenda. The accords which began in 2020 aimed to normalize relations between Israel and several Muslim-majority countries. For Trump, expanding these agreements is not simply another diplomatic initiative but it is one of the defining achievements of his foreign policy legacy.

Cities in India don't lack the corporate climate capital but the governance architecture to access it to build climate resilience.

India received $125 billion in remittances in 2023, retaining its position as the world's largest recipient of inward transfers, according to the World Bank's Migration and Development Brief. The figure anchors the national balance of payments, which keeps families afloat in the agrarian heartlands of states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Odisha, where few alternative income sources exist, and finances approximately 23.2 per cent of Kerala's Net State Domestic Pro

ach disaster is defined by its pace. Earthquakes come within seconds, floods in hours, drought in months. Subsidence takes years to show. It starts showing in millimetres and keeps exacerbating from thereon, and this entire process happens so slowly that when it manifests itself through cracks in walls and roads and flooded basements, the ground responsible for it is no longer there. This is already happening in places as far apart as Jakarta and Mexico City. And although slo

The field of global climate diplomacy, formerly seen as a significant unified front against the shared existential peril, is now characterized by strategic recalibration and disintegration. The pressure is on developing countries to strike a balance between the prestige of global leadership and the harsh realities of infrastructural growth as the world keeps shifting the dynamics of alliances and the advent of digital and energy sovereignty.

The smoke has cleared over the Persian Gulf and the roar of American missiles has become the soundtrack of 2026, but a curious silence prevails in Beijing. While the US finds itself entrenched in another high-stakes Middle Eastern conflict, the broader global landscape is shifting beneath its feet.

While the rest of the world is dealing with petroleum prices and energy reserves, the Chhatarpur and Panna districts of Madhya Pradesh, India, are facing their own crisis. The tribal women villagers of the Chhatarpur region of Madhya Pradesh lay on funeral pyres to protest the Ken-Betwa Link Project in April 2026.

The popular urban planning idea is spreading fast, but the gap between the vision and the reality reveals a deeper governance crisis.

The motherhood penalty is the loss a woman faces in the workplace after becoming a mother. In simpler words, the motherhood penalty is an utterly frustrating phenomenon for women facing economic disadvantages after becoming a mother.

This text attempts to trace the legal history and the implications of the latest Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, which, after obtaining the assent of the president, has become an act on 30th March, 2026. This act has replaced the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.