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India’s New War Doctrine: Responding to Terror with Remote Warfare
April 30 , 2025 Dr Dalbir Ahlawat
Commentary Views: 282
On 22 April 2025, the brutal terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, carried out by two Pakistani and one Indian national, once again tested India’s patience. It was not just an attack on innocent touris...

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Drones , Indus Water Treaty , Pahalgam , Pakistan , remote warfare

Coming of Age - ‘Instruments of Air Denial’
April 30 , 2025 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 221
On the night of 23/24 Feb 2022 when the Russians fired the first salvo of the current round in Russo-Ukraine war in the form of a strong pre-emptive air strike complete with strike aircrafts, cruise mis...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Russia, Defence, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Air defence , Drones , GBAD , Swarms

West Asian Leaders and Organisations Condemn Terrorist Attack in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir
April 29 , 2025 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Dr Farah Shahin
Article Views: 315
Adversity often becomes a litmus test for friends. It is also not untrue of diplomacy. For decades, India’s relationship with most West Asian countries has been transactional and only recently due to st...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Iran , Israel , Pahalgam , Saudi Arabia , Terror attack , Turkey , West Asia

President Smt. Draupadi Murmu Cements Ties with Portugal and Slovakia
April 29 , 2025 Rup Narayan Das
Commentary Views: 214
It is instructive to note how India is engaging high dignitaries like President of India in enhancing its global profile abroad. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi steers the ship of India’s diplomacy i...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Draupadi Mrmu , India , Jaishanakar , Maldives , Mauritius , modi , Om Birla , Portugal , Slovakia

Pahalgam Terror Attack 2025: Unmasking Pakistan’s Proxy Hand in Kashmir
April 28 , 2025 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 507
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत। अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥४-७॥ परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥४-८॥ - Srimad Bhagvad Geeta [English ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir

Tags : Against Terror , Amarnath Yatra 2025 , Bharat , Bharat Fights Terror , Counter terrorism , Kashmir Terror , LeT Proxy , Pahalgam Attack , Security in Kashmir , Tourism Under Attack , TRF Terror

Bharatiya Laws Against Deepfake Cybercrime Opportunities and Challenges
April 28 , 2025 Meera Srikant
Article Views: 351
Deepfakes are digitally manipulated synthetic media content (e.g., videos, images, sound clips) in which people are shown to do or say something that never existed or happened in the real world. [1] Th...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : AI , artificial intelligence , BNS 2023 , Crime , Cybercrime , Deepfake , DPDP Act 2023 , IPC , Judiciary , Legal , Legal Reforms , Privacy

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