Public Policy

Cities by design: Cambridge’s Dr Ronita Bardhan brings sustainability into low-income housing

by Darshana Ramdev | May 8, 2022

(May 8, 2022) Over a billion people across the world live in slums – nearly one in six. Orangi Town in Karachi, Pakistan is by far the world’s largest, with some 2.4 million inhabitants. More than a million residents crowd together in Mumbai’s Dharavi...

Free speech vs law of the land: The Twitter-New Delhi spat

by Chandu | May 28, 2021

(Our Bureau, May 28) Twitter and New Delhi are involved in a war of words over scuttling free speech amid the American company’s non-compliance of India’s new social media intermediary norms. In a statement yesterday, Twitter accused the Centre of  “dangerous...