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Making a Sense of Chinese Hypersonic Threat- The Big Picture
January 28 , 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 133
Hypersonic Weapons – ‘the New Age Arsenal’
Hypersonic weapons are ‘big news’ these days. One of the virtues that has propelled these so called ‘new age weapons’ to high eminence is the claim that these are ‘unstoppable’ by any known air defences in the world today.
Tags : National Security and Strategic Studies , Chinese hypersonic threat , Chinese missile threat , Chinese threat , hypersonic missiles , Defence
Changing Dimensions of Information Warfare
January 27 , 2022 Devsena Mishra
Article Views: 267
The changing character of war and its emerging dimensions which are often referred to as grey zone, non-contact, cyber, and information warfare, are fuelling some serious debates/actions across the world and these aspects are now a part of every country’s war preparedness roadmaps.
Tags : China , India , Information Warfare , Russia , strategic technology , U.S. , Technological and Scientific Studies
मध्य एशिया: 2021 पर एक नजर और 2022 के लिए नजरिया
January 25 , 2022 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Research Associate , VIF
Article Views: 206
परिचय
मध्य एशिया के लिए बीता साल 2021 बेहद चुनौतीपूर्ण रहा है। यह वर्ष सोवियत संघ के 1991 में विघटन के बाद से उसमें से छिटके मध्य एशियाई देशों की स्वतंत्रता के भी तीन दशक पूरे होने का साल है। मध्य एशिया की विकासशील अर्थव्यवस्थाओं के लिए COVID-19 महामारी के सामाजिक-आर्थिक और स्वास्थ्य-प्रभाव विनाशकारी ही रहे हैं।
Tags : Central Asia , Hindi , अजरबैजान , अफगानिस्तान , उज्बेकिस्तान , एससीओ , कजाकिस्तान , कनेक्टिविटी , क्षमता-निर्माण , चीन , टीएपीआइ विरोध , टीसीजीपी , ताजिकिस्तान , तुर्केमिस्तान , भारत-सेंट्रल एशिया डायल़ॉग , रूस , व्यापार , सीमा विवाद , International Relations and Diplomacy
Congrats Mr Tirumurti for defending an Orphaned Civilisation
January 24 , 2022 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Article Views: 527
You, the United Nations, cry about Islamophobia, Christianophobia, anti-Semiticism – all three Abrahamic religions. But what about non-Abrahamic religious phobias – the anti-Hindu, anti-Sikh and anti-Buddhist? You should see that also.” Approximately the words in which T S Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, shamed the 76-year-old organisation for its bias – sorry, its sole concern – for Abrahamic religions.
Tags : anti-Buddhist , anti-Hindu , anti-Semiticism , anti-Sikh , Christianophobia , Islamophobia , Historical and Civilisational Studies
What to Expect from the First India-Central Asia Summit
January 24 , 2022 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Research Associate , VIF
Article Views: 719
Background
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold the first-ever India-Central Asia Leaders Summit in a virtual format on January 27, 2022. This summit will bring together the heads of state of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
Tags : Afghanistan , Central Asia , Chabahar , Connectivity , history and Civilization , India-Central Asia Dialogue , INSTC , Kazakhstan , Pharmaceuticals , SCO , Tajikistan , Tourism , trade , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies
Impact of Moon Jae-in’s Pardon to Park Geun-hye as South Korea goes to Polls on 9 March – An Assessment
January 24 , 2022 Prof Rajaram Panda
Article Views: 562
At a time when the security environment and geo-strategic considerations of key countries in the Asian region are witnessing significant churning, with each country repositioning its foreign policy priorities in response to the demands of the time, one important player in this game, South Korea, shall be going to the polls to elect a new President on 9 March. This will be the 20th presidential election and eighth since democratisation.
Tags : Democratic Party , Indo-Pacific , Lee Myung-bak , Moon Jae-in , pardon , Park Guen-hye , People Power Party , presidential polls , scandals , Yoon Suk-yeol , International Relations and Diplomacy
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Economic Planning in India
January 22 , 2022 Dr Arpita Mitra
Article Views: 933
In the past few decades, public discussion on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has been so mired in the controversy around his death that we forgot to pay attention to his life. Netaji’s contribution to the Indian national movement is in any case under represented in modern Indian history textbooks of undergraduate and postgraduate levels in our country. Furthermore, what never finds mention is his contribution to ideas related to future nation-building.
Tags : Economic Planning , Five-Year Plan , Haripura Address , Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose , Planning Commission , Socialism , Governance and Political Studies
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