Articles

FinTech in India: Potential and Issues
Recently, the Prime Minister of India asked to “convert India’s fast fintech adoption, reflected in high volumes of UPI and other digital transactions, into a FinTech revolution that would help to achieve financial empowerment of every single citizen of this country”. However, at the same time he asked for robust

Strengthening India’s Informal Sector: Implications for Economic Development
Reforming the informal sector is the need of the hour. With increasing levels of unemployment in the sector, it is essential to re-employ workers. The government needs to take action to formalise the sector and to provide ample employment opportunities with proper job security and other social security benefits.According to

Global Supply Chain Resilience: Need for Synchronization
There is a visible churning in geopolitics and geoeconomics; the trade war between the United States and China, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the breakdown of the multilateral system are all driving global supply chains to be evaluated and reconfigured. The epidemic accelerated the migration

Climate Finance: An Insight
Climate finance is needed both to mitigate the emissions causing climate change and to help communities and economies adapt to the changes that are now inevitable. If greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced immediately and at scale, it won’t be possible to limit warming to 1.5° C, or even 2°

India-Nepal Relations: Repairing Bilateral Ties
The recent visit of Nepal’s PM to India cleared the stage for resolving a border dispute through discussion and increasing hydropower production in Nepal, primarily through Indian investment. Nepal was able to profit from India's economic progress by focusing on cross-border connectivity through infrastructure development and financial connectivity through the
Topper's Interview
Mr. YASHU KHURANA - 76thAIR - Madhya Pradesh Judicial Services Examination - 2019
CSC: Achieving top slot in the Judicial Services Examination is no small feat; accept our heartiest congratulations on your splendid success. Yashu Khurana: Thanks to almighty, my parents, and my coaching institute - Ambition Law Institute. CSC: Can you recall the exact moment when you realized the importance of joining Judicial Services? Yashu Khurana: During my Law Clerkship with HMJ Sanjeev Narula, I realised the role and importance of Judiciary. CSC: Finally, at what point of time did you make up your mind to make a career in ‘Judicial Services’? Yashu Khurana: After comparing my experience of working with Mr. Sanjeev Bajaj, as
Essay
Changing Contours of India’s Foreign Policy: Imperatives & Implications
Winner: Deepika Singla Bahadurgarh, Haryana In the globalizing world it is necessary to form vital links with the neighboring countries. Realizing this every country formulates a foreign policy to reap maximum benefits for itself. Demography, availability of resources, ability to meet rising demand, scientific advancement & technological development and economic strength of a country determines the fundamentals of foreign policy of any country and so does of India’s, thereby maintaining dynamism in the foreign policy. India is the fifth largest economy in the world and third actually by PPP terms. Thus, its foreign policy has turned over a new leaf from independence