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Islamic State Attack on Kabul Gurdwara Raises Several Questions
April 13 , 2020 Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 4994
Amid the ongoing global panic caused by Coronavirus (aka Covid-19), the Sikh and Hindu communities in Kabul were subjected to the mortifying experience of the killing of their loved ones, not from Covid...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

Tags : Afghanistan , Gurdwara Attack , India , IS-KP , ISKP , Islamic State , Kabul , Khurasan Khorasan , Pakistan

Global Impact of Covid-19 Crisis
April 12 , 2020 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 5116
Covid-19 is the first full-blown crisis of a hyper-connected world. It arose as the local outbreak in China at Wuhan city, and within a few weeks, it had spread all across the world. More than a million...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : capitalism , COVID-19 , economy , Global supply chains , Globalisation , Helpless West , IMF , Multilateralism , Non--traditional security , US-China rivalry

To Lockdown or Not
April 12 , 2020 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
Commentary Views: 3610
All Indians await with bated breath the government's decision as to what should be done on expiry of the current countrywide lockdown. There are no easy answers and this is an occasion when no one would...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Coronavirus , COVID-19 , economy , Graded lifting , lockdown , Rising infections

COVID-19 in Central Asia: Responses and Resolutions
April 11 , 2020 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 6113
Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic has become a serious challenge for countries across the globe. The virus has stressed public health systems worldwide and disrupted the global economy. The novel Coronavirus that emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019 has spread globally and is being reported daily around the world.

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Central Asia , Coronavirus Pandemic , COVID-19 , Economic Slowdown , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyz Republic , Migrants , precautionary measures , relief packages , Remittances , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 11, 2020
April 11 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 4061
On April 9, the virology professor, Hendrik Streeck, presented "interim results” on the "Covid-19 Case Cluster Study" to the press. Streeck and an interdisciplinary team from the University Hospital of Bonn had carried out study on transmission of the virus in the past few weeks in the Heinsberg district.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Chinese PLA , Coronavirus Narrative , Covid , Daily scan , epidemic control , Oil , WHO

Covid-19: Can it be the Sputnik Moment for India?
April 11 , 2020 Rup Narayan Das
Commentary Views: 4915
History often tells us that the best in you comes out in the worst of circumstances. At times devastations caused both by man and nature has impelled people and nations to rebuild from the ruins. There...

Economic Studies, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : APIS , COVID-19 , Domestic manufacurers , India China trade , Telecom equipment

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