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Foreign Secretary’s Visit to Myanmar: Border Security Gets Foremost Priority
December 9 , 2022 Cchavi Vasisht, Research Associate, VIF
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The latest visit by the Indian Foreign Secretary, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, to Myanmar on 20-21 November 2022[1] brings back attention to India’s foremost priority, which is border management and security in Northeast India. The Indian delegation led by Foreign Secretary was received by a member of the State Adminis¬tration Council Union Minister, Lt-Gen Yar Pyae. This write-up compares the two visits of the Indian Foreign Secretaries in December 2021 and November 2022 respectively.

Myanmar, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : bilateral Relations , Borders , China-Myanmar , Drugs , India-Myanmar , Insurgency in NE , military coup Whats happening in Myanmar , Myanmar-Pakistan

India’s Healthcare Diplomacy with Africa reflects Southern Solidarity
December 8 , 2022 Samir Bhattacharya, Senior Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 4176
The tiny African nation Gambia has recently been in the news due to the unfortunate deaths of 70 children from July to September, reportedly connected to four paediatric cough syrups made in India.[1]In September, Gambia's Government opened an investigation into the deaths of children.

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Adama Barrow , Gambia , India Africa , India Gambia Relations , Maiden Pharmaceuticals , Pharmaceutical

Russia’s Ukraine War and the Concept of Balance of Power since Congress of Vienna
December 7 , 2022 Abhishek Das
Article Views: 4579
Prologue
From Congress of Vienna to the beginning of the First World War; Europe survived for nearly a century without a major war like the one it saw ended with the Battle of Waterloo or the one it would see starting in 1914.

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : balance of power , Cold War , Crimea , Great Wars , NATO , Russia , Ukraine

A Quiet Revolution in the Making
December 6 , 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 3712
The RFP and Beyond
On 07 Sept 2022, a Request for Technical and Commercial Proposal (RFP) was issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on behalf of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the design and developmentof 5 lakh secure microchips, 50,000 of which were to be absorbed in the armed forces.

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Bharat Secure Chips , BSC 1 , BSC 2 , Indian microchip industry

Why Securing the Information Domain has become an Urgent Necessity for India?
December 5 , 2022 Tejusvi Shukla
Commentary Views: 4007
A Special Meeting of the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) was conducted in India in October this year. It was led by the External Affairs Minister, Dr S. Jaishankar, on India’s behalf, where he emphasized the increasing usage of emerging technologies, especially social media, for furthering terrorism.

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Counter-Terrorism Committee , Influence Operations , Information Warfare , Jamaat-e-Islami , Kashmir , Militancy , Pakistan , Social Media , Terrorism , United Nations

North Korea’s ICBM Launch Worrying – Part II
December 5 , 2022 Prof Rajaram Panda
Article Views: 3596
Response from Japan
As an immediate neighbour, Japan was alarmed by North Korea’s missile launch. It was concerned as the missile landed about 125 miles from Japan’s coastline. In the preceding months, North Korea’s ballistic missile launches also had reached Japan’s coastline.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : collective self-defence , Haguro , JDP , Komeito , Mayu , missile defence system , NDPG , Yoon Suk-yeol

Israel-Lebanon Maritime Agreement and its regional consequences
December 2 , 2022 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Podcast Views: 2547
Amb. Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow at VIF, discusses "Israel-Lebanon Maritime Agreement and its regional consequences" by assessing the critical dimensions of the historic deal and dissecting the impact of the said agreement in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and West Asian region. 

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Eastern Mediterranean Sea , Israel , Lebanon , US

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