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Paraktan Harapan Wins in Malaysia after Six Decades: The View from India
June 7 , 2018 Asha Sundaramurthy
Commentary Views: 3758
The victory of the centre of left wing Paraktan Harapan alliance in Malaysia has been of great interest in Southeast Asia and even beyond, into the Indo-Pacific. Not only because the 57 years reign of t...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Mahathir Mohammed , Malaysia election

Strategy for Defence Exports: Need for Alternative Measures
June 7 , 2018 Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty
Article Views: 2828
India currently is the highest importer of weaponry in the World. While our adversaries China and Pakistan import weapons, both have scaled down their imports and enhanced their exports. Our adversaries are by and large authoritarian regimes where the military is given high importance.

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Defence export , Defence Planning Committee , Defence production

Pakistan - Heightening Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Woes
June 6 , 2018 Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF
Commentary Views: 2463
A two-day plenary session of the Asia Pacific Group (APG) of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)1 was held in Bangkok from 22 May 2018. Pakistan had submitted an action plan on 25 April in line with ...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Financial Action Task Force , Financing Terrorism in Pakistan

World Environment Day - India should Launch a National Mission for Ecological Restoration of Degraded Lands and Wastelands
June 5 , 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Commentary Views: 3864
This year India is hosting the 43rd edition of the UN World Environment Day, celebrated on the 5th of June, this time the theme being “Beat the Plastic Pollution”. In 2015, over 320 million ton of plas...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Climate Change

Tags : environmental degradation , nature restoration , World Environment Day

राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार की अध्यक्षता में नई रक्षा समिति का गठन
June 5 , 2018 G. Mohan Kumar
Article Views: 4830
रक्षा मंत्रालय ने हाल ही में राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार की अध्यक्षता में एक रक्षा योजना समिति (डीपीसी) का गठन किया है। इसके उद्देश्य हैं: (1) राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा रणनीति का निर्माण; (2) क्षमता विकास योजना क...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Hindi , रक्षा नीति , रक्षा योजना समिति (डीपीसी) , रक्षा विनिर्माण

China Crosses Hypersonic Threshold, A New Threat Dimension Emerges
June 5 , 2018 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 2729
Ballistic missiles provide stable and a trustworthy vehicles for delivery of conventional as well as nuclear warheads with precision and accuracy through an entire spectrum of ranges and altitudes. Coun...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China’s hypersonic missiles , China’s missile programme

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