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Need for a Vigorous Africa Strategy
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

Africa enchants most people. But our relations and contacts with Africa have been umbilical to say the least. Africa is close to us and very important too is a given. Has it acquired salience remained debatable for quite some time despite the best i....

October 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Commentary , India , China , East Africa , PM Modi , Covid 19 , Asia Africa Growth Corridor , AfCFTA , debt traps , IAFS
Tablighi Jamaat in India: Evolution and Impact
Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak Article

Brief Profile of Tablighi Jamaat (TJ)
The outbreak of COVID 19 pandemic in India coincided with headlines news in the Indian media on TJ. On 2 April 20 Lav Agarwal Joint Secretary Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated ‘COVID-19 ....

May 12, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Covid 19 , Tablighi Jamaat , Markaz , Indian secularism , independence movement
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 17, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Strategic
Wuhan adds 1,290 fatalities to coronavirus death toll
The Chinese city of Wuhan, ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic, has added more than a thousand deaths to its official count of lives lost to Covid-19. Afte....

April 17, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , ASEAN , WHO , COVID-19 Daily Scan , Covid 19 , Daily scan , Coronavirus lockdown , Coronavirus Podcast , US economic breakdown , Foreign Investment , COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 16, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Strategic
USS Theodore Roosevelt Outbreak Is Linked to Flight Crews, Not Vietnam Visit
US military officials are increasingly certain that the coronavirus outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in March was sp....

April 16, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , ASEAN , WHO , COVID-19 Daily Scan , Covid 19 , Daily scan , Coronavirus lockdown , Coronavirus Podcast , US economic breakdown , Foreign Investment , COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 14, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic
IMF cancels debt payments for 6 months for 25 poor nations
The International Monetary Fund approved $500 million on April 13 to cancel six months of debt payments for 25 of the world's most impoverished countries so t....

April 14, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Government , Coronavirus , Pandemic , COVID-19 Daily Scan , IMF , Covid 19 , Daily scan , lockdown , G20 finance ministers , Face masks
लॉकडाउन का पहला सप्ताह: आशा के बीच मिलेजुले परिणाम
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

चार-घंटे के नोटिस पर 3 सप्ताह के एक राष्ट्रव्यापी लॉकडाउन की घोषणा करने में साहस और दृढ़ विश्वास....

April 14, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Covid 19 , lockdown , Economic Task Force , PM CARES Fund , लॉकडाउन का पहला सप्ताह
Notes from the Sub-continent: Responses to COVID-19
Mayuri Mukherjee Article

In this latest compilation of some of the big ideas being debated in the media across the Indian sub-continent, we look at the coverage of the coronavirus (CoVid-19) outbreak over these past two months. It’s interesting to note the similar strands ....

April 05, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Article , Coronavirus , Pandemic , Covid 19 , Covid19 pandemic , Coronimics , South Asian solidarity , Chinese model , Peace Process
Tablighi Jamaat - its other, evil side
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

Global security experts call it the antechamber of fundamentalism, claim it is used to nurse and indoctrinate terrorists. Except intelligence officials, national security experts and the wary among police officials, not many Indians would....

April 02, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Coronavirus , Covid 19 , Tablighi Jamaat , Nizamuddin
Only way to combat coronavirus pandemic is through global cooperation
Amb Kanwal Sibal Commentary

The unavoidable lockdown in China that has caused disruptions in the global supply chains will now motivate countries to cut reliance on China for critical supplies by building domestic capacities or moving production elsewhere. The coronavirus pa....

March 30, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , China , Narendra Modi , Coronavirus , Covid 19 , Multilateralism , Global cooperation
Opportunities in the Covid Crisis
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

Every crisis comes with opportunities. The Covid-19 crisis presents the country with an unprecedented opportunity to have a hard look at the present state of the economy and think of strategies to strengthen indigenous R&D and manufacturing capabilit....

March 27, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , R & D , Covid 19 , Opportunities India , Rebuilding and reshaping economy , Health sector , manufacturing sector , Skilling & training , Telemedicine
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