Swayam Kane

Introduction India’s energy market is undergoing a dramatic revolution today. On April 1, 2026, the Government of India mandated the sale of E20 blended petrol throughout the country. Further, it is also proposing a draft amendment to include E85 and E100 blended petrol in the future. What are these fuels? E refers to ethanol (ethyl alcohol), and the number after that represents the percentage of ethanol blended with petrol. Ethanol is a compound that can act as a biofuel. It burns cleaner...

Introduction With technology constantly evolving, diplomacy has also evolved. From newspaper articles to television broadcasts and now to social media posts, politicians have often leveraged the opportunities provided by new technologies to further their agenda. This is most clearly illustrated by Trump's reliance on Truth Social as the primary medium for sharing official communications about the war in Iran. Such communications have varied widely, from congratulatory messages following a...

In today’s greatly globalized world, international trade thrives in numerous ways, and one of the forms it takes is via outsourcing. The fact that the US outsources many of its IT services to India is common knowledge, but there is one more service that the West ‘outsources’ to developing nations: waste disposal. In an effort to escape strict domestic disposal regulations, developed nations routinely ‘export’ their waste to countries of the Global South. This practice has come to be known as...