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India and Japan: “Lotus Waters in Chrysanthemum Lake”

The conclusion of a defense deal between India and Japan marked a new high in the burgeoning relationship between the two countries. Had it not been for the constrains imposed by the COVID-19 and Prime minister Abe’s announcement to lay down his o....

October 13, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , QUAD , strategic partnership , PM Modi , Suzuki , ACSA , Confluence of Two Seas , Digital Arc , Justice Radha Binod Pal , Okakura , PM Abe

Modi Heralds a New Narrative for India

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

Prime Minster Modi’s seminal speech on the occasion of Ram Mandir Bhumi Poojan at Ayodhya on 5 August 2020 had several messages which need to be understood and analysed. The start of the construction of the Ram temple is a watershed moment in indep....

August 07, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , Ram Mandir , PM Modi , Secularism , Atmanirbhar Bharat , Bhumi Poojan , Ram Rajya

Modi’s Message: India Can and Will Defend its Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

The brutal killing of 20 Indian soldiers by the Chinese troops at the Galwan river area on the Indian side of the India-China Line Of Control (LAC) in Ladakh on 15-16th June has led to national outrage in India. The brave Indian Army soldiers were in....

June 18, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , PM Modi , Territorial integrity , Befitting reply , sovereignty , soldiers sacrifice , China's aggressiveness , bilateral relationship

Self Reliance: Modi’s Revival Plan for India

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

In his address to the nation on 12 May 2020, Prime Minister Modi announced a ₹ 20,00,000 crore plan and a bold reform plan aimed at rebuilding and reviving India in the 21st century. Modi’s visionary speech was notable for laying down a framew....

May 13, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , PM Modi , Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan , Special Economic Package , Land and Labour Reforms , Self-Reliance. Human centric , Good infrastructure , Vocal for local

The Idea of Non -Alignment @ 65

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

The idea of Non- Alignment (NAM) in the international discourse is often being scoffed as anachronistic and archaic especially in the 21st century political hyphenism where brute power plays out at will. Multilateralism and its notional institutions ....

May 11, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , India , International Solar Alliance , PM Modi , COVID-19 , Multilateralism , Bandug conference , NAM , NAM Contact group

Lockdown Lessons: Build Self-reliance

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

The government announced a further two weeks extension of the nationwide lockdown which was to end on 3 May 2020. The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued detailed guidelines on handling the red, orange and green zones in the country. The decision doe....

May 03, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Article , PM Modi , COVID-19 , Global response , Chief Ministers , Economy and livelihoods , FRBM , Self-reliance

West Asia Roundup - March 2020

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

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COVID-19 Pandemic continued to cause havoc globally as well as in the Middle East where most of the returning or evacuated nationals as well as travellers from the infected countries carried the virus. Iran was the most infecte....

April 04, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , PM Modi , WHO , COVID-19 pandemic , G20 Virtual Summit , Russia-Turkey agreement on Idlib , COVID-19 crisis in Iran , Tunisia Protests , Unity government in Israel

Iran's Presidential Election

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Iran's just concluded 12th Presidential election attest the stability of the Iranian system. The election witnessed high voter turn-out of above 73 percent. Rouhani won 57 percent or 23,549,616 votes out of total of 40 million votes cast. He improved....

May 22, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , INSTC , Chabahar Port , Iran , Presidential elections , Rouhani , PM Modi , Tehran , International North-South Transit Corridor

Modi and the World: The Ring View Inside Out; Ed. by Yamini Chowdhury and Anusua Diya Chowdhury; Bloomsbury Publishers; New Delhi; Pages 317; Price Rs. 499

RNP Singh

Two years two months, 51 foreign trips on six of the seven continents of the world which covered 42 countries and included UN General Assembly meetings and scores of multilateral engagements; the debutant Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stirred the ....

August 09, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , foreign policy , PM Modi , Book Reviews , UN General Assembly , Modi’s engagements , Modinomics , Diplomacy

Upgraded Sino-Pak Relationship Increases Pressure on India

Jayadeva Ranade

At times individual events irreversibly change the dynamics of regional geopolitics and texture of bilateral relations. Xi Jinping’s well publicised two day (April 20-21, 2015) visit to Pakistan, barely three weeks prior to Indian Prime Minister Na....

March 04, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , China , PM Modi , Sino-Pak Relationship , President Xi Jinping