A Culture of Circularity: Driving Social and Behavioural Change for India’s Urban Waste Transition:-

India's circular economy can’t succeed on tech and policy alone—it must drive deep behavioural change and shift social norms around waste.

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ISIS relied on the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach, alternately noted as ‘entrepreneurial’ by the 2025 National Threat Assessment released by the US Director of Intelligence. This meant it offered locally ingrained ideological Islamists, groups and individuals alike, a brand to incubate around. Much like any other policy challenge, in countering terrorism, how policy is constructed for unstructured and disorganised militias is a perpetual battle.

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While this is a setback - it also sets a significant opportunity for India to decolonise its approach to LGBTQ+ inclusion and weave the ‘pink economy’ into its growth story. This pink economy refers to the purchasing power of the queer community which is globally valued at approximately US $3.7 trillion. In India, the pink economy is estimated to have a purchasing power of US $168 billion remains largely untapped, due to societal stigma which hinders their economic inclusion.

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China’s substantial investment in its armed forces could increasingly enhance its ability to expand its influence across the Indo-Pacific region, if not beyond On 5 March 2025, the Chinese government announced its national defence budget at US$ 249 billion (CNY 1.81 trillion) for the year. As the second-largest defence budget worldwide, it marks an annual increase of 7.2 percent but remains below 1.5 percent of China’s GDP.

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