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Modi Government 2.0: Sure Footed Firmness vis-a-vis Pakistan
June 19, 2019 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article View: 269

India, following the re-election of the Modi Government, is to be commended for its sure footed firmness in its dealings with Pakistan. Pakistan's repeated feelers for a resumption of talks have been rebuffed on the eminently legitimate ground th....

Keywords : Pakistan’s anti-Indian DNA , Pakistan a terror factory , India’s new Pakistan policy , Article , National Security and Strategic Studies , Terrorism
A Perilous Quadrangle: Iran, United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia
June 19, 2019 Amb K P Fabian Commentary View: 355

The world is witnessing with increasing alarm the escalating tension in West Asia. We do not know whether there will be a war. But we have reasons to fear that hostilities might break out if there is no de-escalation. We do not see, as yet, any signs....

Keywords : West Asia , International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Sanctions on Iran , Iran’s nuclear programme , Dangers of US-Iran confrontation
Contextualising the US-Iran Tensions
June 18, 2019 Hirak Jyoti Das, Research Associate, VIF Article View: 241

The recent stand-off between Iran and the United States (US) is rooted in US President Donald Trump’s announcement to withdraw from Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on 8 May 2018, arguing that Iran was violating the spirit of the deal by ....

Keywords : US-Iran confrontation , withdrawal fro JCPOA , India’s oil imports , Chabahar Port , Article , International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia
अमेरिकी प्रतिबंध, ईरान की प्रतिक्रिया और तेल की बिगड़ती स्थिति
June 18, 2019 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article View: 151

राष्ट्रपति हसन रूहानी ने 8 जुलाई को राष्ट्रीय टेलीविजन पर अपने भाषण में ऐलान किया कि ईरान परमाण....

Keywords : ईरान तेल पर अमेरिकी प्रतिबंध , ईरान तेल निर्यात , ईरानी अर्थव्यवस्था पर संकट , कच्चे तेल का आयात , Hindi , Article , International Relations and Diplomacy
Minorities
June 18, 2019 Rajesh Singh Article View: 227

The Modi government has created a flutter by its recent outreach to the minority community. It has announced scholarships to five crore students over the next five years, with a substantial number of them being girls; extended help to madrassas to eq....

Keywords : Defining term ‘minority’ , Preservation of minority rights , Government’s minority outreach , Article , Governance and Political Studies
Al Qaida Affiliate AGuH Leader Zakir Musa Killed in J&K - What Lies Ahead?
June 17, 2019 Anurag Sharma, Research Associate, VIF Article View: 424

On 23 May 2019, while all the prime time news channels in India were intensely pre-occupied with news and analysis of the Parliamentary Election 2019, a few of them found time and space to flash a piece of a very significant security related news fro....

Keywords : Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Radicalisation in Kashmir , Islamist terror in Kashmir , End of terrorist Musa
Tiananmen Square Incident @ 30
June 14, 2019 Dr Gunjan Singh Commentary View: 342

The year 2019 is very special in the calendar of China as it marks some of the most important anniversaries. But the one anniversary which Beijing refuses to acknowledge is the thirty years since the Tiananmen Square Incident. On June 3 and 4, 1989 h....

Keywords : China , Neighbourhood Studies , Commentary , Tiananmen 89 , Party surveillance in China
Has ‘Sab ka Saath ..’ Ended the Political Trick of ‘Divide and Rule’?
June 14, 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF Article View: 329

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry”, - T S Eliot Politics in ‘New India’ Interactions with the masses indicate a rediscovery of India’s once....

Keywords : Uplift of minorities , Dividing society in name of democracy , Citizen vs voter , Article , Governance and Political Studies
प्रधानमंत्री मोदी के दूसरे कार्यकाल में भारत की पाकिस्तान नीति कैसी हो
June 14, 2019 Commodore Somen Banerjee, Senior Fellow, VIF Article View: 153

विलियम शेक्सपियर ने कहा था, “अनईजी लाइज द हेड दैट वियर्स द क्राउन” यानी राजमुकुट कांटों से भरा ह....

Keywords : National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Hindi , भारत-पाकिस्तान संबंध , पाकिस्तान का आर्थिक घेराबंदी , कश्मीर में आतंकवाद
Where is Sudan Going?
June 13, 2019 Amb K P Fabian Article View: 365

We start with where Sudan is coming from. It is a young state with an impressively long history. The Kingdom of Kush in the region known as Nubia in antiquity had much interaction with ancient Egypt, and it provided a line of Pharaohs to the 25th dyn....

Keywords : Sudan politics , Sudan in protests , Civilian government in Sudan , Article , International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa
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