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The War on Yemen
August 9 , 2019 Amb K P Fabian
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Saudi Arabia invaded its neighbour Yemen in March 2015. The assessment then in Riyadh was that after a few weeks of aerial bombing, the Houthis will surrender and Hadi, the President who escaped to Riya...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Conflict in Middle East , Houthi-Saudi conflict , Saudi-Yemen War

सब का साथ, सब का विश्वास ने क्या ‘बांटो और शासन करो’ की सियासी चालों को खत्म कर दिया है?
August 9 , 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF
Article Views: 3026
“चुनाव आ रहा है। विश्व शांति की घोषणा की गई है और लोमड़ियों ने मुर्गियों को दीर्घायु करने में गंभीर दिलचस्पी लेना शुरू कर दिया है।’’ टीएस इलिएट नये भारत’ में राजनीति जन साधारण से बातचीत करने पर तो हमे...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Hindi , अल्पसंख्यकों का उत्थान , बांटो और शासन करो की राजनीति , लोकतंत्र के नाम पर समाज को बांटना

Defending China in the Xi Jinping Era
August 8 , 2019 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 2395
China’s White Paper on defence titled ‘China’s National Defense in New Era’ of 2019, coming after a gap of four years, bears a strong imprint of President Xi Jinping on Beijing’s defence and security po...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China’s military assertion , China’s White Paper 2019 , PLA under Xi Jinping

Modi did what Nehru wanted to, but couldn’t, on Article 370
August 7 , 2019 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Article Views: 3797
When Home Minister Amit Shah declared on August 6 that Article 370 has been scrapped and Kashmir fully integrated with the rest of India, whether or not he was aware, he said almost exactly what Jawahar...

Jammu & Kashmir, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Amit Shah , Article 370 , Congress Kashmir abrogation , Jawaharlal Nehru , Lok Sabha , RSS

अंतर-अफगान संवाद: एक परिप्रेक्ष्य
August 7 , 2019 Dr Yatharth Kachiar
Article Views: 2127
जर्मनी और कतर के साझा प्रयास से 7 से 8 जुलाई 2019 को दोहा में दो दिवसीय अंतर-अफगान संवाद का आयोजन किया गया था। इस संवाद ने अफगानिस्तान में पिछले 18 वर्षो से चले आ रहे रोजाना के खून-खराबे के अब खत्म हो जाने की उम्मीदों को लहका दिया है।

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Hindi , अफगानिस्तान-तालिबान वार्ता , अफगानिस्तान-शांति , तालिबान का दोहरापन

Repeal of Temporary Articles 370 and the 35A Intrusion
August 6 , 2019 Rajesh Singh
Article Views: 4382
Those who had been wondering whether the Modi Government would bite the bullet on Article 370 and Article 35A got their answer on August 5. Not only did the government scrap the two provisions, the fir...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Article 370 & 35A , Integration of J&K , Roots of separatism in Kashmir Valley

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