by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Cleaning Industrial Heat, How Heat Pumps Could Transform India’s Manufacturing Economy Industry accounted for nearly half of India’s final energy consumption in 2025, much of it still tied to fossil fuels. The story becomes even sharper when we look at...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
The Slow Erosion of Rule of Law in Tech Geopolitics, When Strategic Imperatives Trump Legal Frameworks An attempt by Meta Platforms to acquire Manus, an artificial intelligence start-up, and its subsequent blocking by Chinese authorities, marks more than a routine...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
The Iran Conflict and the Future of Shia Identity, Between Fragmentation and Radicalisation The Iran war is not merely a geopolitical conflict. It is a crucible for the future of Shia identity. For nearly half a century, Shiism has been shaped by the Iranian...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
The Grand Bargain India Needs, Fixing a Dysfunctional Labour Regime to Boost Job Growth A series of worker protests in North India amid the rollout of the new labour codes has drawn attention to India’s lopsided labour regime once again. India’s labour...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Renewable Energy Meets Global Demand for the First Time, But Geopolitical Shocks Expose India’s Persistent Fossil Fuel Dependency In 2025, global electricity generation increased by roughly 850 terawatt-hours (TWh), according to data from the Ember Energy...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Solar’s Half-Built Bridge, Why India’s Battery Storage Gap Threatens Its Clean Energy Future India scaled a record peak demand of 256.1 GW on April 25, with solar plants supplying 21.5 per cent of the afternoon load—an all-time high, and the clearest...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Silencing the Ivory Tower, How India’s Academic Freedom Crisis Is Weakening Democracy Itself According to the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute 2026 report, India is still classified as an “electoral autocracy,” ranking in the lower half...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Punjab’s Electoral Crucible, BJP’s Solo Gamble, AAP’s Internal Crisis, and Congress’s Discord Buoyed by electoral victories in West Bengal, Assam, and Puducherry, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems eager to carry that momentum into Punjab,...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Khela Hobe, When the Game Is Not Played on Equal Terms “Khela Hobe” — the game will be played — once rang out as a slogan of defiance. It was a rallying cry, a promise of resistance, a declaration that the political contest was not over. In the quiet after...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Bulldozer Justice, When the State Substitutes Spectacle for Procedure The sight of a five-year-old gifting a toy bulldozer to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on March 27 at Gorakhpur made for a tender photo moment. The Chief Minister returned the gift and...
