Children’s AI use needs balanced policies; focusing on literacy, safe design, and shared responsibility, rather than bans alone.

Read to know how a meaningful framework must involve coordinated action across multiple stakeholders: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/beyond-bans-preparing-children-for-the-age-of-ai

The AI Frontline
As threats evolve across borders and domains, how is the #IndianArmy reshaping doctrine, #technology use and force structure for multi-domain #warfare and future deterrence?

Watch General Upendra Dwivedi & Harsh V Pant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e52FOLVELbU

AI’s Hunger: The Nuclear Fix
As AI and data centres drive massive electricity demand, can nuclear energy deliver reliable, carbon free power without compromising affordability and grid stability?

Watch Bjorn Lomborg & David Victor on energy security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iws01stAVk

Going forward, the key challenges confronting the Indian Navy in this domain is likely going to emanate from how efficiently New Delhi balances spending its resources on upgrading its submarines programme and Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems in design and production of these vessels.

Read more: https://www.orfonline.org/research/bolstering-deterrence-through-submarine-dominance

India’s energy transition is increasingly being celebrated as a story of scale. Installed renewable capacity has crossed 260 GW, and non-fossil sources now account for over half of total installed power capacity. However, gap between capacity and system reliability is not a technical aberration; it is a structural outcome of how India’s power sector is governed.

Read the complete brief here: https://www.orfonline.org/research/powering-viksit-bharat-2047-baseline-assessment-of-state-level-readiness-for-energy-transition

War’s economic costs from unlawful force often fall on host States and investors, not the responsible State. Ultimately, this is not only about clarifying responsibility; it is also about maintaining the credibility of international law.

Read the analysis: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/war-has-a-price-who-pays-and-what-it-means-for-investment

The UK’s search for a post-Brexit partnership with the EU is caught between economic necessity and political constraint, limiting how far a “reset” can deliver substantive integration.

Read the brief to understand the limits of the UK-EU partnership: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/between-necessity-and-constraint-the-limits-of-a-uk-eu-reset

Children’s AI use needs balanced policies; focusing on literacy, safe design, and shared responsibility, rather than bans alone.

Read to know how a meaningful framework must involve coordinated action across multiple stakeholders: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/beyond-bans-preparing-children-for-the-age-of-ai

Fast-tracking clearances for critical minerals may ease supply risks, but without stronger transparency and community safeguards, it risks undermining sustainability and public trust. Without addressing structural gaps—including inadequate community engagement, opacity in decision-making, and weak EIA credibility—procedural acceleration risks compounding governance failures rather than resolving them.

Read more here: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/rethinking-environmental-clearance-for-critical-mineral-mining

The Hungarian election serves as a stark and hopeful reminder that even after years of systematically dismantling institutions, capturing the media, using state funds for propaganda, and enjoying the active support of both the Kremlin and the White House, the democratic system can yield uncontested change.

Read the analysis on Victor Orban's defeat: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/what-orban-s-fall-means-for-hungary-europe-and-maga

This brief argues that China will make a concerted effort to decisively weaken the site’s association with Hinduism and India, and reposition it as a centre of indigenous Chinese cultural traditions such as Taoism. Read more on the emerging Chinese discourse on Kailash Mansarovar: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/beyond-pilgrimage-kailash-mansarovar-yatra-in-china-s-strategic-discourse

India’s Rise is Determined by Its Own Success
As India navigates a shifting global order, its trajectory will be shaped not by external pressures but by its own economic strength, strategic choices and domestic transformation.

Watch S. Jaishankar reflect on India’s rise: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5DYKwP3s26o

This long read discusses traffic congestion in Delhi to identify the causes, and proposes measures for minimising congestion. It concludes that the challenge of traffic congestion can be addressed by improving public transport services, keeping roads and supporting infrastructure in good condition, using intelligent traffic management technologies, and enforcing traffic rules. Read here: https://www.orfonline.org/research/minimising-urban-traffic-congestion-lessons-from-delhi

Now that the Maha Yuti Alliance will hold office in the BMC for the next five years, this report analyses the Vision Document and its feasibility. Many of the assurances appear well considered and could enhance the city’s quality of life. However, several action points will face implementation challenges, the most pressing of which is financing. The BMC may not be able to bear the full cost, and the state may have to assist: https://www.orfonline.org/research/maha-yuti-s-vision-document-for-mumbai-an-assessment

This brief explores how the PLA’s senior cadre training programme marks a shift from anti-corruption purges to cadre reconstitution, with political loyalty central to leadership selection amid continued institutional and operational challenges: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-pla-deepens-china-s-political-rectification-campaign

ORF is hosting a panel discussion on 'Russia-Iran Nexus In An Era Of War' with Ajay Bisariya, Deepika Sarawat , Adlan Margoev, Muddassir Quamar & Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti.

The tensions in the Strait of Hormuz have seemingly presented a window of opportunity for the #Russian economy, with soaring oil prices and the #US waiver on Russian #oil imports. Having engaged closely with #Tehran in recent years – including signing a #military cooperation agreement in January 2025 – Moscow naturally sympathises with the Iranian position, providing diplomatic, humanitarian and limited #military support.

Join us on 27 April from 3:30 PM at ORF Delhi.

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This brief explores how the PLA’s senior cadre training programme marks a shift from anti-corruption purges to cadre reconstitution, with political loyalty central to leadership selection amid continued institutional and operational challenges: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-pla-deepens-china-s-political-rectification-campaign

The Global South is struggling with wars, energy shocks, and weak bargaining power, so building practical, trust-based partnerships is key to survival and growth.

Read how the Iran conflict has placed under the scanner the actual veracity of the Global South to collectively bargain and negotiate with the traditional Western powers to realise shared targets: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/iran-war-global-south-partnerships-in-dire-straits