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Yamuna Biodiversity Park: An Ideal Instrument for Environmental Sustainability in Urban Spaces
Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF India Positive

In an era of climate emergency, the world is looking for desperate measures to tackle the issue of climate change. Apart from mitigation, the climate change discourse has now moved towards adaptation and nature-based solutions. Nature-based solutions....

March 21, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Climate Change , water security , Food Security , climate emergency , Ecosystems , Sustainability , nature-based solutions , biodiversity , India Positive
AUKUS’s Nuclear Submarine Pact: Implications
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Two strategic groupings – the Quad and AUKUS – are in the news that has caught world’s attention. While the Quad has been for been in existence for some time now, AUKUS is a recent construct. When in September 2021, Australia, the UK and the US....

March 20, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , South China Sea , Taiwan , Strategic competition , AUKUS , defence spending , Nuclear submarine deal , USS Virginia
India’s Internal Security Challenges
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

(The following is an updated version of Director’s talk on Internal Security given at Defence Services Staff College, Wellington on 06 Mar 2023)

Introduction
In the holistic concept of national security, internal security is a....

March 17, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , infiltration , NIA , PFI , CAPFs , Khalistan , NTRO , Drone FICN , Left Wing insurgency , MAC , NATGRID , Northeast insurgency
Self-Styled ‘Bhindranwale 2.0’: A Troubling Element in Punjab
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

ਹਿੰਦੂ ਤੁਰਕ ਕੋਊ ਰਾਫਜੀ ਇਮਾਮ ਸਾਫੀ, ਮਾਨਸ ਕੀ ਜਾਤਿ ਸਬੈ ਏਕੈ ਪਹਿਚਾਨਬੋ ॥
[Quote bySri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj, Tenth Sikh Guru]<....

March 17, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Bharat India Punjab Ajnala AmritsarPakistan Khalistan Amritpal Singh Bhindranwale Extremism Panjab Sikhi Sikh Terrorism Instagram Facebook
Could the Reaper Have Been Saved – An Analysis
Air Marshal GS Bedi (Retd) Commentary

The Incident
According to "Defense One," two Russian SU-27 aircraft intercepted a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle over the Black Sea on March 14, 2023. Apparently, the interceptors dumped fuel on it and then struck its propellers....

March 16, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , US , Russia , UAV , Reaper , SU 27
Take Aways from the New IAF Doctrine
Naval Jagota, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

The new Indian Air Force doctrine made available in the public domain has gone through various iterations and does incorporate aerospace aspects of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict also. There has been emphasis on capturing the growing role of aer....

March 10, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , IAF , Transport , Tejas , Satellite , Space , doctrine , International exercises , enablers , sustainment , domain , fighters , air diplomacy
Analysing the Balloon Drift: Another Perspective
Air Marshal GS Bedi (Retd) Article

Introduction
The US Department of Defense released a photo of the alleged Chinese spy Balloon on February 22. The photo was taken by a U-2 aircraft as it sailed over the balloon on February 3, according to the caption. A U.S. Air F....

March 03, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Spy-Balloon , HABs , Steered-Balloon , Montana , South Carolina , AIM 9-X , F-22 Raptor
Saving the Tiger
Dr Arpita Anant, Research Fellow, VIF India Positive

The Indian Express reported recently that Project Tiger, which was launched in 1973 to conserve the wild tiger population in India, completes fifty years in 2023. This is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climat....

March 02, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Russia , World Bank , Wildlife , India Positive , Tiger
Geo-engineering: A Fringe Idea Whose Time Has Come?
PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Introduction
On 1 October 2022, the US government announced a Five-Year Plan to study the controversial and seemingly sci-fi notion of deflecting the Sun’s rays before they hit Earth in order to temporarily reduce the effects of global wa....

February 27, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Article , national security , Climate Change , Climate Change Mitigation , Geo-engineering , Solar Geo-engineering , Carbon Geo-engineering , Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
Punjab: Frankenstein amidst Witches Brew
Brig (retd) Rahul Bhonsle Article

Punjab - the front line border state of India has seen fragility in the 1980’s and 1990’s in the form of a bloody terrorist campaign memories of which returned to haunt with images from Ajnala (near Amritsar) where followers of a radical extremis....

February 27, 2023 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Pakistan , Punjab , ISI , Khalistan
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