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• India-EU Free Trade Agreement: Benefits and Barriers | K N Ninan

  1 March

  India has signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU). The agreement concluded after prolonged negotiations spread over almost two decades has been described as a mother of all deals. The EU and India together account for 2 billion population, a market worth $3 trillion, 25 percent of gross global GDP and one-third of global trade. The deal gives preferential access and zero or reduced tariff benefits for both sides.
  The FTA is expected to benefit many sectors of the (…)

• Notwithstanding Supreme Court intervention every thing is not fair with SIR and its implementation in Bengal | Arun Srivastava

  1 March, by Arun Srivastava

  The Supreme Court has not outright mocked the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise undertaken by the Chief Election Commissioner at the directive of Narendra Modi, but its two commands; first, criticising the implementation of the SIR in certain states, particularly regarding the use of "logical discrepancy" lists and software tools, and secondly, its directive to the CJ of Calcutta High Court to deploy serving as well as retired judicial officers to oversee adjudication of claims and (…)

• Kerala Urban Policy 2026

  1 March, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  The Kerala Urban Policy 2026

• Ordinary Indians Lead in Regular Charity | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  1 March, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Whenever I visit the Birla Ghat in Haridwar, I see a regular flow of pious men and women giving small sums of money to the ghat

• Important Cautions the New Waste Segregation Rules Should Not Ignore | Bharat Dogra

  1 March, by Bharat Dogra

  Waste management has been a weak part of the development story of India, and within waste management inability to have proper waste segregation has been a particularly sad story. This is despite the fact that in some smaller initiatives, some brilliant officials working with community involvement have achieved very good results. However, such success at a wider level has been missing.
  So it is good that new solid waste segregation rules are being framed for implementation in the near (…)

• Minority rights in the Indian Republic: from Constitution to Institutions | Malavika Menon

  1 March

  In the political climate currently enveloping the globe, rights the marginalised occupy an important place. Since the last decade of the 20th century, minority rights have been recognised internationally and celebrated. Despite the phenomenal shift of contemporary international politics that are marked by a certain hostility and suspicion towards ethnic minorities, migrants and immigrants, the rights and treatment towards minorities remains the index for measuring how democratic a nation is. (…)

• Two Battles, One Body: Living with Both Physical and Mental Disabilities in a World Built for Neither |

  1 March

• Equity on Campus: Why the UGC

  1 March

  The University Grants Commission

• Emergence of Checks and Balances through the Return of the Tradition of Swing Votes in the American Supreme Court | Vijay Kumar

  1 March, by Vijay Kumar

  The momentous judgment by the American Supreme Court in Learning Resources, inv v. Trump, rendered on Friday, 20th February, 2026 [[LEARNING RESOURCES, INC., ET AL. v. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL CERTIORARI BEFORE JUDGMENT TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
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• Biopolitics of war: Forced deportation of Ukrainian children | Solidarity Collectives

  1 March

  Dec 2, 2025
  Almost fifty years ago Michel Foucault, in his lectures, formulated the concept of biopolitics