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Neighborhood News Digest – 15 May 2023

Afghanistan Taliban urges Qatar to invest in Afghanistan – The Print Taliban’s spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that officials of the Afghan interim government in their meeting with the Qatari delegation who visited Kandahar on Friday urged them...

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 19, 2023)

Welcome to Africa Now, your weekly newsletter for Africa, presenting the most important developments in the continent - news that matters. Commentary Deconstructing the Sudan conflict Sudan is bleeding. Hundreds of people have been killed,...

Quad-Plus Dialogue

The latest edition of the Quad Plus Dialogue (QPD) at the think tanks level was held virtually on 09 May, 2023. This time Vivekananda International Foundation hosted the dialogue. Apart from VIF, the think tanks from Quad members included the...

Round-Table Discussion on India-Bhutan Bilateral Relationship

On 21 April 2023, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a talk on “India-Bhutan Bilateral Relationship”. Lt General R K Sawhney gave the introductory remarks, followed by presentations by the expert group on the issues of the...

Neighbourhood News digest - 4 May 2023

Afghanistan Taliban interfering with NGO work in Afghanistan: Report – Tribune A Taliban fighter recently fired his rifle into the air at a food distribution event in Afghanistan, an example of their harassment of nongovernmental groups operating...

VIF News Digest: National Security - Defence Studies & Terrorism,16-30 April 2023

DEFENCE MoD initiates reforms inAuthority Holding Sealed Particulars(AHSP). 8th India-Thailand defence dialogue to be held in Bangkok. Raksha Mantri(RM) holds telephonic conversation with Canadian Minister of National Defence. Indian Air Force (...

Africa Now - Weekly Newsletter (Week 18, 2023)

Welcome to Africa Now, your weekly newsletter for Africa, presenting the most important developments in the continent - news that matters. COMMENTARY How the Sudan crisis complicates the Egypt-Ethiopia dispute over the GERD dam A peaceful...

Neighbourhood News digest - 03 May 2023

Afghanistan Afghanistan’s women and Taliban vie for spotlight at top UN Doha meet – Independent Hundreds of Afghan women have taken part in protests to criticise what they see as an intentional decision to sideline them from a key UN meeting in...

Neighbourhood News digest - 02 May 2023

Afghanistan The Taliban Aim to Divide and Conquer – Foreign Policy Afghanistan has become the world’s problem child, controlled by unruly and unpredictable religious fanatics and terrorists who throw their toys out of the stroller each time they’re...

Neighbourhood News digest – 28 April 2023

Afghanistan U.N. urges Afghanistan's Taliban to reverse bans on women – The Hindu The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to swiftly reverse their increasingly harsh...

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