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As the Killing of Top Iran General marks a Tipping Point in the Crisis in the Middle East, Who has the Most to Fear
January 6 , 2020 Col Rajeev Agarwal
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In the early hours of 03 January, Iran's most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani was killed by an air strike at Baghdad airport in a precision strike carried out by the US. The attack,...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Ali Khameini , India , Iran , Kata'ib Hezbollah , Nancy Pelosy , Quds Force , Trump

2019 Sets 2020 for a Robust EV Policy in India
January 3 , 2020 Aayush Mohanty
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2019 has been a pivotal year for the State Governments and Union Territories in India to come up with policies and initiatives for Electric Vehicles. The pivot comes at a time when India’s major cities ...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Electric Vehicles , energy , States' policies

वर्तमान संदर्भ में नागरिकता संबंधी संवैधानिक प्रावधान
January 3 , 2020 Rajesh Singh
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नागरिकता (संशोधन) अधिनियम, 2019 पर देश में तीखी बहस चल रही है। देश के कई हिस्सों में विरोध शुरू हो गए और दुर्भाग्य से उनमें से कुछ हिंसक भी हो गए। लोगों को जान गंवानी पडीं और सार्वजनिक तथा निजी संपत्ति ...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : CAA , CAB , Hindi , NRC , नागरिकता (संशोधन) अधिनियम

The Kural and Ethics
January 2 , 2020 Pradeep Kumar Gautam
Article Views: 10804
The Thirukkural by Thiruvalluvar, also known as the Kural is a powerful and compact Tamil text from South India which has survived and thrived over 2,000 years. This work of outstanding brevity consists of 1,330 couplets divided into 133 chapters of 10 couplets each.

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Aram , dharma , ethics , Kural , morals

India’s Approach to Countering Violent Extremism: Issues and Prospects
January 1 , 2020 Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
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This is an updated version of paper presented at an international conference on Countering Violent Extremism organized by China’s Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing in December 2019 General India ha...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

Tags : Cooperation , Counter narrative , CVE , Definition , Measures

2019 was a Challenging Year for Indian Foreign Policy, 2020 will be even more so
December 31 , 2019 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 6190
Introduction US-China trade war deepened in 2019 despite some signs of thaw towards the end. Unexpectedly, President Trump was impeached by the US congress on the charges of having misused his power and...

Indo-Pacific, Indian Ocean Region, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Indian Ocean , Indo-Pacific , outlook 2020 , Sino-Indian relations , Terrorism , trade

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