Vivekananda International Foundation | Seeking Harmony in Diversity

India and Egypt – Finding Strategic Convergence

As the global churn is yet to spring some sense of stability New Delhi has been in an overdrive to identify and nurture key partnerships across geographies since its strategic autonomy and consistent principled policies in international discourse...

January 23 , 2023

Neighborhood News Digest – 19 January 2023

Afghanistan 30 pc decline in imports from Afghanistan via Attari ICP – The Tribune The decline of 30 per cent in the imports from Afghanistan through the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari can be attributed to clashes between Pakistan forces and...

January 19 , 2023

Neighborhood News Digest – 13 January 2023

Afghanistan Bombing Near Foreign Ministry Triggers Widespread Reactions: Tolo News The bombing near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul on Wednesday triggered widespread reactions at national and international levels. Kabul security department...

January 13 , 2023

China Daily Scan, December 13, 2022

Senior Chinese official stresses national defense, military modernization: Xinhuanet December 12, 2022 A senior Chinese military official has stressed resolving major issues in theory and in reality and opening a new page in the modernization of...

December 13 , 2022

VIF Neighbourhood News Digest - December 08, 2022

Afghanistan Female Students in Grade 12 Take Final Exam to Graduate: Tolo News On Wednesday, female students in the 12th grade took a final exam in Kabul, as well as in other provinces. Some of them were positive about the test, but they voiced...

December 8 , 2022

VIF Neighbourhood News Digest - December 06, 2022

Afghanistan Zardari Expects to Talk With Kabul Over Threats Facing Pakistan: Tolo News Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said they are expecting to work with an “interim authority” in Afghanistan to “address the challenges posed by...

December 6 , 2022

Book Discussion on “The Arab Spring That Was and Wasn’t”

The Vivekananda International Foundation organized a book discussion on 18 November on book titled, “The Arab Spring That Was and Wasn’t” authored by Amb. K P Fabian and published by Macmillan Education in June 2022. The discussion was attended by...

November 23 , 2022

India-UAE Set to boost ties and Strengthen Strategic Partnership

UAE’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan is scheduled to visit India on 21st November 2022 on a bilateral visit. In an earlier bilateral engagement this year, he and External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar co-chaired the 14th...

November 19 , 2022

I2U2 Grouping: Transformational Force for Global Good and India’s Strategic Imperatives

With the formation of I2U2 grouping comprising India, Israel, the USA, and the UAE a new strategic alliance has come into action towards promoting robust cooperation for establishing geostrategic and geo-economic equilibrium coupled with shared...

August 9 , 2022

The I2 U2: A Matrix of Some Consequence

On July 14 , while President Biden was in Israel on the first leg of his much discussed desert Safari ending in Jeddah conferring with the regional leaders to strengthen the Abrahamic security bridges, he virtually hosted a summit of his...

July 18 , 2022