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Neighbourhood News Digest – 7 February 2025

Afghanistan
Pakistan, China Discuss Afghanistan’s Integration, Regional Stability – Tolo News
In a recent meeting in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani President Arif Alvi emphasized the importance of inte....

February 07, 2025 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , Nepal , Maldives , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Bangladesh , India-Bhutan Relations , Debt , Budget , Sheikh Hasina , UNHCR , Refuges , United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , Myanmar-China Relations , President Muizzu , Pakistan's Foreign Office , FO , India-Pakistan.
Economic Survey 2024-25: Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Headwinds
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

President Trump’s unorthodox policies and announcements have made the global situation highly intricate and uncertain. With the imposition of unilateral tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China, the prospect of a severe global trade war has become ....

February 07, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , artificial intelligence , Economic Survey , energy transition , Trump's policies
India-US Ties in Trump 2.0: On a ‘’Trusted Partnership’’ Trajectory
Amb Ashok Sajjanhar Article

Introduction
India-US relations have been in a sweet spot since the last twenty-five years starting with the visit of US President Bill Clinton to India in March, 2000. There has been a bipartisan consensus in both India and the US regard....

February 07, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Article , India , US , Trump , MAGA
Welcome Remarks by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF during the Vimarsh talk by Sh Rajiv Malhotra on the book Who is Raising Your Children: Breaking India with Youth Warriors,

Dear Friends,
I would like to welcome and thank Sh Rajiv Malhotra and Dr Vijaya Viswanathan to the VIF for today’s Vimarsh discussion. Their latest book Who is Raising Your Children: Breaking India with Youth Warriors is t....

February 07, 2025 Vimarsh , Welcome remarks , Dr Arvind Gupta
Science and Technology (S&T) Digest (16-31 January 2025), Issue 54

In this Issue

I. Defence and Security

  1. MoD Signs Contract with BDL for Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missiles
  2. DRDO Conducts Scramjet Engine Ground Test
  3. February 07, 2025 STEM , AI , Aatmanirbhar Bharat , UIDAI , Science & Technology , Nuclear energy , Microsoft , Quantum , 6G , SoftBank , ChatGPT , Generative AI , OpenAI , Space Economy , NavIC , MIT , SPADEX , 3D Genomic Structures , AI Agents , AI Model , AI RAM , DeepSeek , NVS-02 , US Entity List
Africa Now – (16-31 January, 2025)

OVERVIEW
This edition of Africa Now explores significant political, economic, and diplomatic developments across the continent. The situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains volatile with rebels taking over the l....

February 07, 2025 India , US , China , Africa , BRICS , Syria , Egypt , Boko Haram , Algeria , ECOWAS , Canada , Kenya , Tanzania , VIF Africa Now , Mali , Nigeria , South Africa , Niger , Uganda , Zambia , Burkina Faso , Namibia , DRC , Portugal , Democratic Republic of Congo , Burundi , Ebola , WHO.
Government Interventions and the Economy
Rajesh Singh Article

The buzz in the air is that India should become a developed country by 2047, when we celebrate 100 years of our independence. The union government has made known its determination to achieve that formidable goal and has begun work on multiple fronts.....

February 07, 2025 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Air India , Viksit Bharat , Creative destruction , Easy money
Internal Security Monitor Vol 1, No 7

The past fortnight witnessed bloody clashes between the Security Forces (SF) and guerrillas of the proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist), or Maoists, along the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border. In all, 45 Maoist cadres were killed in separate incide....

February 06, 2025 Internal Security Monitor , Maoist; Narayanpur; Sukma; Bijapur; Chhattisgarh;; Odisha; Maoist; Chin; TRF; LeT; Jammu; Kashmir; Srinagar; Sopore; Mizoram; Manipur; Kuki; KYKL; National Investigation Agency; Chin; Babbar Khalsa International; BKI; FICN; Fake Currency; Enforcement Dire
Trump and the Indo-Pacific Security Structure - More of the Same?
Dr Chayanika Saxena Commentary

Donald Trump’s re-election to the White House was not entirely unexpected. If anything, it was much in line with the political trends the world witnessed in 2024, a bulk of which were marked by upheavals and change of guard. But while change is, in....

February 06, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , India , Indo-Pacific , Trump , Security Structure
Neighborhood News Digest- 06 February 2025

Afghanistan
Balkhi: By Closing Chapter of War, We Want to Open New Chapter with US-Tolo News
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told CBS News that the interim government intends to establ....

February 06, 2025 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , US , China , Maldives , Myanmar , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Uzbekistan , Bhutan , CPEC , Bangladesh , Turkey , Tajikistan , Sheikh Hasina , Maldives-Ireland Relations , Global Environment Facility (GEF) , Urban Climate Resilience Project , Myanmar-Singapore Relations , Ta’ang National Liberation Army , TNLA , Reform Commissions , Power Generation
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