India’s tariff hikes under Make in India (2014–2023) did not curb import volumes or China dependence — imports and China’s import share both rose despite higher tariffs. Pearson correlation showed no significant link between tariff rates and import volumes, suggesting tariffs alone can’t drive self-reliance.
As the international system transitions from a unipolar structure to a multipolar world order, China’s growing global influence has become a focal point of diplomatic analysis. This research explores the changing dynamics of global politics by examining state voting alignments with China within the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Moving beyond aggregate voting metrics, the study employs a mixed-methods approach—combining quantitative network analysis with qualitative evaluations of Chinese foreign policy—to demonstrate that China’s diplomatic network is highly issue-dependent rather than a monolithic political bloc. Specifically, the findings reveal that states are highly likely to align with China on foundational issues such as sovereignty, colonialism, Middle East affairs, and economic development, which are driven by shared normative values and material interests. However, this coalition fragments significantly when addressing hard security issues and nuclear disarmament, where states instead choose to prioritize their own strategic autonomy. Ultimately, this issue-specific flexibility illustrates that contemporary multipolarity is defined by adaptable, overlapping partnerships rather than rigid, Cold War-era alliance structures, highlighting a nuanced shift in global governance.
This study examines whether China’s Belt and Road Initiative reshapes African states’ UN voting alignment. Combining fixed-effects panel regression, difference-in-differences design, and network analysis, it finds economic engagement correlates with diplomatic alignment-though causation remains unproven.
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India’s education challenge is not merely about how much we spend, but how effectively and equitably we spend it. This study examines the gap between budget allocation and actual expenditure in education, highlighting chronic underinvestment, inter-state disparities and fund utilisation failures. Drawing on primary surveys and interviews alongside government reports and comparative data, the study finds that improving education outcomes requires more than higher allocations—it demands equitable resource distribution, effective utilisation, better infrastructure, skill-based learning and stronger governance.
The study examines how changing UN voting patterns reveal the emergence of flexible, issue-based diplomatic alignments in an increasingly multipolar world. Focusing on the growing diplomatic agency of the Global South, it uses social network theory, neorealism, and constructivism to understand patterns of voting cohesion, coalition formation, and evolving international partnerships. The study argues that contemporary alliances are increasingly shaped by shared interests and common challenges rather than rigid ideological or military blocs, highlighting the Global South’s growing role in shaping global governance.
Rapid advancements in generative AI enable the precise recreation of deceased individuals’ digital identities, exposing a critical regulatory void in Indian jurisprudence. Because traditional doctrines extinguish privacy rights upon death, domestic laws currently fail to address the commercial weaponization of digital remains. To resolve this, this study proposes the Unified Digital Afterlife Framework—a sui generis model that formally recognizes transmissible post-mortem personality rights and establishes a centralized licensing registry to preserve human dignity in a synthetic media landscape.
This review addresses the lack of harmonized aquatic plastic monitoring by integrating conventional and emerging methods, including visual inspection, FTIR, Raman, Py-GC-MS, AI hyperspectral imaging, flow-through Raman, and microfluidic technologies for comparable detection across water bodies.
This study applies Louvain community detection to UN General Assembly voting data (2020 to 2023), showing how the Russia Ukraine War reduced overall voting cohesion while strengthening the US/NATO bloc relative to Russia China. It examines how alliances, regional organizations, and foreign aid shape alignment, finding aid origin matters more than aid amount, and India remains aligned with Russia China despite Quad membership.
Public expenditure has improved educational infrastructure and welfare provisions, but student experiences reveal gaps in maintenance, teacher engagement, welfare delivery, and digital access. The study finds that effective implementation, rather than investment alone, shapes meaningful educational outcomes.
ABSTRACT
Every death today leaves behind an estate of pixels as well as property. Photographs, correspondence, cryptocurrency wallets, social media profiles and, increasingly, synthetic recreations of a person’s voice now survive the individual who created them. Indian law has responded only in fragments. Section 14 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 permits a data principal to nominate a representative to exercise data rights after death, but stops short of treating digital data as inheritable property. The Indian Succession Act, 1925, the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, and Muslim personal law were drafted for tangible and straightforwardly intangible property and struggle to accommodate assets that are simultaneously personal data, contractual licences and economic wealth. Constitutional jurisprudence recognises that dignity survives death while remaining ambivalent about privacy, and the nascent doctrine on posthumous personality rights is internally inconsistent. This paper synthesises Indian statutory, constitutional and judicial material with comparative learning from the United States and the European Union to argue that India requires a unified statutory hierarchy–modelled loosely on the American Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act–reconciling nominee authority, heir entitlement and platform discretion, while separately addressing the unregulated commercial and synthetic exploitation of the dead.
Keywords: Digital remains; post-mortem privacy; Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023; digital inheritance; personality rights; succession law; comparative data protection; artificial intelligence and deepfakes