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From Sanctions to Nuclear Deterrence: Europe’s Peace Plan for Ukraine
April 22 , 2025 Dr Shreya Sinha, Associate Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 677
With almost two months behind since the start of negotiations between the United States and Russia on the war in Ukraine, Russia’s recent deadly missile attacks on Zelenskyy’s hometown Kryvyi Rih on Apr...

Europe, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Coalition of the Willing , Debt Brake , European Union , France , Germany , nuclear deterrence , Peace Plan , Putin , Russia , sanctions , Trump , UK , Ukraine. European Security , Zelenskyy

AIKEYME: India- Africa Maritime Engagement Gets a Boost
April 22 , 2025 Ruchita Beri, Senior Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 795
On 13 April 2025, Tanzania’s Minister of Defence, Stergomena Lawrence Tax and India’s Minister of State for Defence, Sanjay Seth in the presence of Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi jointl...

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Africa , AIKEYME , India , Indian Ocean Region , Maritime Engagement , Security

A Princely Contribution to Indian Archaeological Heritage
April 21 , 2025 Arunansh B. Goswami
Commentary Views: 713
India possesses a wealth of ancient sites and archaeological treasures. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has been a strong advocate for "cultural nationalism," emphasizing the dual themes of "Vikas and...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Archaeological Survey of India , ASI , Gupta period , Gupta Temples , Scindias , UNESCO World Heritage

What Should be India’s Response to Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs
April 21 , 2025 Gopalan Balachandran
Article Views: 678
On April 2, (at around 4.00 p.m. (EST), President Trump in his characteristic fashion, threw a bombshell on the way international trade and trade negotiations were conducted by unilaterally announcing ...

US, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China , India US BTA , Trump Reciprocal Tariffs

Deep Seek and India’s AI Mission
April 17 , 2025 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Commentary Views: 730
What is DeepSeek?
DeepSeek is a China-invented AI model which represents a paradigm shift in the development of Artificial Intelligence Models. As the Chinese paper which developed DeepSeek said, “Our goal is to explore the potential of LLMs to develop reasoning capabilities without any supervised data,

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : AI , China , DeepSeek , India's AI Mission , LLMs , Nvidia , US

India and the Shifting Sands of Geopolitics
April 17 , 2025 Rajesh Singh
Article Views: 710
Geopolitics and geo-strategies are like shifting sands. They change according to developing circumstances and are also influenced by the quality and outlook of leaderships. They take into account the ne...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Ayatollah Khomeini , Chabahar Port , Henry Kissinger , India-Sri Lanka defence pact , Indo-Soviet treaty of friendship , Iran , Mohamed Muizzu , Muhammad Yunus , Richard Nixon

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