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War Against Daesh (ISIS) – An Assessment of Mosul Campaign

November 13, 2016 Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

After having crushed the concept of the Caliphate little over 90 years ago by Kemal Ataturk, the first president of the modern-day Turkey, a renewed effort was made by a newly-founded Sunni militant group, which, today, is known by the name Islamic S....

International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia

Tags : Mosul , Iraq , Daesh , ISIS , IS , Al Baghdadi , Peshmerga , Mosul Campaign , Alvite Singh , Kemal Ataturk

भारत की पहले ही कार्रवाई एवं प्रतिकार (पीएईआर) करने की नई रणनीति

November 11, 2016 Ashish Sirsikar

भारत के हालिया लक्षित हमलों (सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक) को कुछ लोग प्रतिकार तथा उड़ी हमलों का बदला लेना मा....

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Hindi , Pakistan , Kashmir , भारत , surgical strike , Uri , escalation , military options , response , पीएईआर , सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक , उड़ी

Keep The Armed Forces Out of Politics!

November 10, 2016 Commodore Gopal Suri

The Indian Armed Forces have fought and won four wars against our Western neighbor, a state where the country does not have an army but the Army has a country. Despite these obvious victories, the Indian Armed Forces have never fallen prey to the wor....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Politics , Armed forces , Honour , morale , political misrepresentation

Realizing the ‘Make Defence Equipment in India’ Dream by First Nurturing in-house Human Resources

November 10, 2016 Lalit Joshi

Introduction The Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2016 was unveiled by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in March this year incorporating most of the recommendations of the Committee of Experts (CoE) constituted by MoD for ‘Amendment to DP....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Procurement procedure , Defence acquisitions , human resource management , procurement expertise

Modi’s daring War on Bribery and Black Money

November 09, 2016 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

The stunning announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that from midnight of November 8, 2016, the presently circulating currency notes of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 denominations will cease to be legal tender is the boldest attack on the scourge of black....

Economic Studies

Tags : modi , economy , Black Money , Prime Minister Narendra Modi , Rs 1000 , Rs 500 , surgical strike , Indian Curencey , hawala , Gurumurthy

Media’s Role in Covering Anti-Terror Operations

November 08, 2016 Rajesh Singh

There has been a flurry of opinions and views in recent days in the media, both mainstream and social, on a ‘looming threat’ to the freedom of the Press in the country. The scare has been triggered by sections within the media and outside after t....

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Policies & Perspectives , Anti-Terror Operations

आतंकवाद से आतंक तकः अंतरराष्ट्रीय समुदाय के लिए चिंताजनक घटनाक्रम

November 08, 2016 Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

आतंकवादी संगठन इस्लामिक स्टेट ऑफ इराक एंड सीरिया (आईएसआईएस) के कब्जे वाले क्षेत्र जब से वापस हा�....

Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Hindi

BRICS 2016: An Analysis

November 08, 2016 Dr Teshu Singh

The 8th BRICS Summit was held in Goa from 15-16 October 2016. The theme of the summit was “Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions”. On 16 February 2016, India took over as the President of BRICS. This is second chance ....

Economic Studies

Tags : BIMSTEC , Terrorism , BRICS , economic cooperation , NBD

US Presidential Election – the Final Countdown

November 07, 2016 Dr Harinder Sekhon

As the race to the White House enters its final day, attention gets re-focused on polls that have tightened and predict a very close race. An ABC/ Washington Post poll on November 1 gave Trump a 1% lead over Clinton and an 8-point lead over her on th....

International Relations and Diplomacy , US

Tags : Donald Trump , Hillary Clinton , ABC Poll , Real Clear Politics.com , FBI Investigation , Senator David Purdue , Swing States , Florida - key battleground state , Mitt Romney , George HW Bush , Colin Powell , US Electoral College , Hispanics , African Americans

Dealing with Pakistan – Indus Water Treaty, the Most Favoured Nation Status and Cross Border Terrorism

November 05, 2016 Rajesh Singh

The surgical strikes that the Indian Armed Forces carried out on the other side of the Line of Control (LoC) late September, so effectively seized the national consciousness that they displaced the other important options being discuss....

Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan

Tags : Policies & Perspectives , Terrorism , Indus Water Treaty , Most Favoured Nation Status , Indo-Pakistan confrontation , Tulbul , Wular Lake