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Our Constitution: Preamble Debates
July 23 , 2019 Rajesh Singh
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Last month (June), the nation remembered Emergency, which had been imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1975. The horrors that followed have been repeatedly chronicled — large-scale arrests of the...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Constitutional debates , Indian Constitution , Preamble of Constitution

पाकिस्तान में नए आईएसआई प्रमुख की नियुक्ति के मायने
July 23 , 2019 Prateek Joshi
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सेना के शीर्ष क्रम में बदलाव के तहत हाल ही में ले. जन. आसिम मुनीर की जगह ले. जन. फैज हमीद को इंटर-सर्विसेज इंटेलिजेंस (आईएसआई) का नया प्रमुख बना दिया गया। मुनीर को प्रमुख बने केवल 8 महीने हुए थे कि यह ब...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Hindi , आईएसआई का नया प्रमुख , पाकिस्तान सेना का राजनीति में दखल

US Sanctions, Hormuz Strait and Security in the Gulf
July 22 , 2019 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 2135
The seizure of Stena Impero by Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 19th July in the Hormuz Strait follows arrest of Grace 1 off Gibraltar by Royal Marines earlier. This represents an escalation...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : oil tanker seizure , shipping in Persian Gulf , US-Iran spat

A Look at the Boeing-Bloomberg’s Bloomer on 737 Max Aircraft
July 22 , 2019 Sridhar Vembu
Article Views: 4559
A Bloomer! In claiming that cheap Indian coders brought down the plane, here is the actual Bloomberg headline: ‘Boeing’s 737 Max Software Out-sourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers’(https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : 737 Max crash , Bloomberg’s propaganda article , Boeing management’s gaffe

Chabahar Port - A Rethink is Needed
July 19 , 2019 Rajesh Soami
Commentary Views: 9517
Russian, Chinese, American and Pakistani representatives met in Beijing on the 10th and 11th of July to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. This was the third such consultation between Russia, China a...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Chabahar Port , Iran’s changed priorities , US Sanctions

The Spirit of Indian Federalism
July 18 , 2019 Rajesh Singh
Article Views: 6924
The issue of India’s federal nature has been both a subject of reiteration and conflict between the ruling party and the opposition. There have been instances when the opposition parties accused the Cen...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Federalism in India , Indian Constitution , Indian Union

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