Vivekananda International Foundation | Seeking Harmony in Diversity

COVID-19: Visible Arrows, but Still in the Quiver

The pandemic outbreak has caught almost the entire global population on the hop. The rare retreat from the regular has sent the world in a tizzy. However, while this indefinite hiatus has put a halt on the “natural” course of actions, the...

May 28, 2020 Article, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Gene-Engineering, Microbiology, Vaccines, Technological and Scientific Studies

The Dichotomy of Economic Imperative and Security Dilemma: The Chinese Telecom Companies in India

Rup Narayan Das

The outbreak and spread of Covid-19 and Chinese government’s failure to share its timely information to the outside world have raised question mark about the transparency of the communist regime there. Concomitantly, it has also raised the...

April 29, 2020 Article, Australia, Huawei, India, National Security Council, security threats, smartphones, USA, ZTE, Technological and Scientific Studies, Economic Studies

Experiments & Applications: S&T in Coronavirus Pandemic

Radhika Daga

Throughout the history of pandemics, technology has played its role in many ways in proliferating infectious diseases to a wider area. However, it’s the same science and technology (S&T) research and innovations that also provide a way out of...

April 25, 2020 Antibody Test, Article, artificial intelligence, Biotechnology, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Telemedicine, Technological and Scientific Studies

Building Indigenous Missile Capability - An Imperative

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

When the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) was sanctioned way back in 1982-83, Agni Missile was not even a part of the four missile Projects in its development agenda which included the Prithvi Short Range Surface-to-Surface...

October 10, 2019 Article, Building indigenous missile capability, Inescapability of different types of missiles, Range of air threats, Technological and Scientific Studies

The Expanding Chinese Smartphone Market in India

Aayush Mohanty

The recent news of ‘One Plus’ investing Rs.1,000 crore in Hyderabad for research and development which would focus India-centric features while also working on globally standard features¹ is a testament to the fact that global...

September 25, 2019 Article, Chinese manufacturing companies, Smartphone investments, Smartphone market, Technological and Scientific Studies

To the Moon and Beyond: Time for India to Strengthen its ‘Space’ Muscles

Radhika Daga

Lunar exploration missions date back to the very beginning of space exploration itself. In over a year’s time following Sputnik, the advances in aerospace technologies were made to enable forays into our closest neighbour in outer space. The...

September 20, 2019 Article, celebrating Indian science, India to Moon, India’s space journey, Technological and Scientific Studies

CDS Appointment: An Opportunity to Streamline Defence Acquisitions

Dr Kapil Patil

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day announcement from the ramparts of Red Fort to create Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) constitutes a major milestone in the history of India’s defence reforms¹. The appointment of CDS was one...

August 26, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies, Appointment of CDS, Military jointmanship, Military modernization, Commentary, Defence, Technological and Scientific Studies

5G Infrastructure for Global Digital Economy: US and China in Race to Redefine the World Order

Dr Kamlesh Bajaj

5G Key Features

5G is the next generation of wireless technology. ‘Generations’ are technically defined by their data transmission speeds and in encoding methods, or ‘air interfaces’. These promise greater speed (to move more data),...

August 16, 2019 5-G, Article, India’s 5G policy, indigenous 5G, Technological and Scientific Studies

Shaping Strategies for Space Encounters - An Assessment

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Brief Premise

This article flows out from the following three developments that took place in the recent past”:-

On 27 Mar 2019, India conducted Mission Shakti, an anti satellite missile test destroying a live satellite in...

August 14, 2019 Article, Harnessing space, India’s satellite assets, India’s space ventures, Technological and Scientific Studies

A Look at the Boeing-Bloomberg’s Bloomer on 737 Max Aircraft

Sridhar Vembu

A Bloomer!

In claiming that cheap Indian coders brought down the plane, here is the actual Bloomberg headline: ‘Boeing’s 737 Max Software Out-sourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers’(...

July 22, 2019 737 Max crash, Article, Bloomberg’s propaganda article, Boeing management’s gaffe, Technological and Scientific Studies