Less than a month later, on 29 January, the Supreme Court issued a stay order on the UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026 (2026 regulations) under the pretext ...

In September 2019, Patna, the capital of Bihar, was paralysed by unprecedented rainfall and flooding (Tewary 2019). Within weeks, a government-appointed committee submitted a report to the Patna High ...

Beginning with the formulation of standardised and common DCRs for small towns in 1979, the technocratic project of uniform and common DCRs expanded in 2013 to peri-urban and rural areas, ...

The Union Budget for 2026–27 outlines the income and expenditure flows with a total outlay of ₹53.5 lakh crore. This amounts to 13.6% of the estimated gross domestic product (GDP) of ₹393 lakh crore ...

In India, particularly post the economic reforms, consulting grew as a business of expertise (Hildyard 2021), where for-profit consulting companies became global agents sharing ideas and technologies ...

The “digital turn” in urbanism is fundamentally transforming the nature of urban life. Several scholars have investigated the material and social transformations brought about as a result of ...

Focusing on the critical role of urban knowledge and knowers that should guide flood response, I argue that Gurugram already possesses rich hydrological knowledge—embedded in civil society maps, ward ...

G P DIt is necessary to recognise at the outset that non-confirmation of Teng Hsiaoping as the Prime Minister is not as surprising as it appears. Hua Kuofeng’s nomination is certainly quite a surprise ...

This growing gap, the authors contend, eroded the Congress party’s traditional support base and contributed to the rise of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). With electoral victory secured, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic that ushered in the current decade has not only pushed the Indian economy into a state of fear, insecurity, and hardship but has also presented the ruthless face of urban-centric ...

Researchers over the years have argued that panchayats in rural areas are often captured by elites, constrained by fi scal limitations, and subjected to excessive bureaucratic oversight (Datta 2003; ...

Energy resources, particularly fossil fuels, have significantly shaped the development of human society. These non-recyclable fossil fuels are finite natural resources that will inevitably be ...