Analysis
Briefs
88 briefs · page 6 of 8
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's defence self-reliance (Atmanirbharta): indigenisation, procurement and exports
Defence self-reliance — Atmanirbharta — is the organising goal of India's defence-industrial policy: build at home what the armed forces once imported, and sell the surplus abroad.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's energy transition: the 2030 non-fossil target and the grid
India has already crossed 50% non-fossil installed electricity capacity — the COP26 target it had set for 2030 — reaching the milestone in mid-2025, about five years early, and total installed capacity passed 500 GW later that year.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's fiscal stance: the FY2026-27 Union Budget and the consolidation path
2 lakh crore. 6% for 2026-27 and aimed at around 50% (plus or minus 1%) by March 2031. 0 move to a largely two-slab structure, and a rewritten Income-tax Act, 2025 in force from 1 April 2026.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's food security: the public distribution system, buffer stocks, and food-price management
4 lakh fair price shops.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's national highways build-out and the NHAI model
India's national highway network reached roughly 146,000 km by August 2025, up from about 91,000 km in 2014, but the pace of construction has cooled from about 34 km/day in FY24 to about 29 km/day in FY25.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's judiciary: appointments, pendency and reform
India is almost the only major democracy in which the higher judiciary chooses its own judges — through the collegium, a creature of Supreme Court judgments rather than statute.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's four Labour Codes and the jobs question
On 21 November 2025 India brought its four Labour Codes into force, consolidating 29 central labour statutes passed between 2019 and 2020 into a single framework covering wages, industrial relations, social security and occupational safety.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's maritime agenda: Sagarmala, port capacity, and Maritime Amrit Kaal 2047
India's maritime programme runs on three stacked plans owned by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways: the Sagarmala port-led development programme (2015), Maritime India Vision 2030, and the Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision 2047 launched in October 2023, which sets a stated target of about 10,000 MTPA of port capacity by 2047.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's media and digital-content regulation: the broadcasting framework and the IT Rules interface
India regulates its media through three overlapping regimes that the state has spent the 2020s trying to reconcile: a legacy broadcasting framework built on the 1995 Cable TV Act, a film-certification regime under the Cinematograph Act, and a digital-content regime under Part III of the IT Rules 2021.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's MSME sector: credit access, the Udyam formalisation drive, and the revised classification
India's micro, small and medium enterprises are counted by the Ministry of MSME at roughly 30 percent of GDP and 45 percent of exports, yet the sector has long carried a credit gap the RBI's own expert committee put at Rs 20-25 lakh crore.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's nuclear-energy expansion: the three-stage programme, SMRs, and civil-nuclear liability reform
India runs about 8,180 MWe of nuclear capacity from 24 reactors and has set a stated target of 100 GW by 2047, anchored on the Department of Atomic Energy's three-stage programme, which reached a milestone when the Kalpakkam prototype fast breeder reactor attained criticality in April 2026.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's oil imports and energy security: the Russian-crude question
India imports roughly 88% of the crude oil it consumes, and since 2022 discounted Russian barrels have supplied about a third of that — a share that, on ship-tracking data, rose to a record in June 2026.