Introduction The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 was enacted as a corrective measure for what Parliament itself described as a “historical injustice”
Introduction The Supreme Court of India’s recognition in M.K. Ranjitsinh v. Union of India (2024) that the right against adverse effects of climate change is a fundamental right flowing from
Introduction India generates approximately 3.5 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, a figure that the Plastic Waste Management Rules 2022 were designed to systematically reduce through a combination of prohibitions,
Introduction Green hydrogen has emerged with remarkable speed from the periphery of energy policy discussions to occupy a central position in India’s long-term decarbonisation strategy. The National Green Hydrogen Mission,
Introduction The environmental impact assessment process has occupied an uneasy place in Indian environmental governance for nearly three decades. Mandated under the Environment Protection Act 1986 and operationalised through successive
Introduction India’s formal entry into structured domestic carbon trading with the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act 2022 and the subsequent Carbon Credit Trading Scheme 2023 represents a significant inflection point in
Introduction The operationalisation of the Loss and Damage Fund at the twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties (COP28) held in Dubai in November and December 2023 represents one of the most
Introduction The Pegasus spyware controversy of 2021 exposed, with unusual clarity, the structural inadequacies of India’s surveillance oversight framework. When the Forbidden Stories consortium and Amnesty International’s Security Lab published
Introduction Security research is a public good. The identification and disclosure of software vulnerabilities before malicious actors exploit them protects individuals, organisations, and governments from harm. Ethical hackers, penetration testers,
Introduction The architecture of digital commerce is not neutral. Every element of an online shopping experience, from the colour of a “buy now” button to the prominence of a subscription