Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) held meetings on a variety of subjects in the month of July 2023 with six expert groups, a trilateral dialogue, an inter-think tank dialogue and a roundtable. The first meeting of the newly constituted Internal Security Task Force discussed developments in the UT of Jammu & Kashmir and the state of Punjab while the recent visit by the PM of Nepal, the rising tensions over Taiwan, the SCO Summit, the US Inflation Reduction Act and EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism were the other major issues that were deliberated upon within their respective expert groups.