This essay traces the evolution of AI safety institutes around the world, explores different national approaches, and examines the need for an AI safety institute in India.

Since its launch nearly a year ago, the INDUS-X has marked many milestones in the India-U.S. relationship. Much has been achieved, but there is room to further enhance defense cooperation between the two countries in the coming years.

In this episode of Interpreting India, Steven Freeland, vice-chair of the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities, joins Tejas Bharadwaj to discuss space resource activities and governance.

Considering their use and deployment in recent conflicts, this essay summarizes India’s normative stance on lethal autonomous weapons systems at multilateral forums.

Carnegie India scholars review key outcomes from fifteen ministerial meetings. These include fourteen outcomes under the Sherpa Track and one under the Finance Track.

An annual anthology of essays by young scholars

Tejas Bharadwaj wrote two sections, “Light Pollution of the Night Sky and Long-Term Sustainability of Space Activities” and “Protection of Astronomy as a Cultural Human Right,” in the Report of the IISL Working Group on the Light Pollution of the Night Sky from a Space Law Perspective.

This article analyzes whether the re-entry of space objects can be militarized by states and how would they affect India’s obligations under international law.

Konark Bhandari and Tejas Bhardwaj write on whether India's space program can serve the international community's needs as well as realize India's geopolitical aims.