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Beyond the COVID-19: Indian Defence Industry
May 6 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 5118
The social media is bulging at seams in making unending predictions by the hour related to the ‘life after Covid’. The continuum ranges from a ‘total doomsday’ scenario painted by the naysayersto the ‘w...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Challenges of Services , COVID-19 , Defence and aerospace sector , Defence industry , Post covid world

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 6, 2020
May 6 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3239
Joe Biden’s advantage over President Donald Trump in popular support has eroded in recent weeks as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee struggles for visibility with voters during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on May 05.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Afghanistan , Aramco , COVID-19 , Daily scan , Dubai , Europe , Hong Kong , Investment funds , Joe Biden , Money Laundering , Oil , Phase 2 talks , South China Sea , Trade Deficit , Transportation

The Maoists, Violence, and their ‘Alternate Revolutionary Programme’
May 6 , 2020 Dr Uddipan Mukherjee
Article Views: 6366
As human beings distance away from each other to deny the corona virus any additional mass and volume, the left-wing insurgents in India's dense jungles converge into south Bastar in central India from neighbouring provinces as well as from Nepal1:

National Security and Strategic Studies, Leftwing Extremism

Tags : Charu Mazumdar , CPI (M) , dictatorship of the proletariat , ideology , Lenin , Mao Tse-tung , Maoists , Marx , New Democratic State , Violence

Fragile Unity Government in Israel
May 5 , 2020 Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 4207
On 20 April 2020, the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud Party signed an agreement to form unity government with Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan Party ending the yearlong political deadlock and averting the possibility of fourth election.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : COVID-19; Likud; Kahol Lavan; MIddle East Peace Process; Annexation plan; Illegal settlements

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 5, 2020
May 5 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3363
Among the clichéd role stereotypes, is that women are more responsible for children and the household, and perhaps care for older family members as well. According to UNICEF, women across the world did three times as much unpaid care work as men even before the current crisis.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Belt and Road Initiative , European Commission , Indian Diaspora in Gulf , RBI , Riyal , Taiwan , US Treasury , Wall Street , Women , WTO

Biological Security: An Imperative for Indo-US Partnership
May 5 , 2020 Gaurav Kumar
Article Views: 4265
The conventional understanding of the term security-both traditional and non-traditional is heavily influenced by the state-centric approach. The proponents of various security policies use concept of security that has military dimension to it- defensive, offensive or preemptive in nature aimed to preserve sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state against adversarial state and non-state actors.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Biological security , Coronavirus , Healthcare , India-US Cooperation , Lessons , Vaccine action programme

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