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US elections

Project 2025: Potential Implications for U.S. - India Relations

Voters in the U.S. will go to the polls on November 5 to elect their next president. The election was initially meant to be between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. However, President Biden ended his campaign in July and endorsed Vice-Presiden....

October 24, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , India , US , US elections , US Congress , Trump administration , President Biden , Project 2025

Project 2025: What a Trump Administration Portends for India

As the US Presidential race reaches the home stretch, the political rhetoric becomes shriller, accentuating the polarization in American society. Almost every major US media outlet has become an extension of one or the other campaign. Channels piousl....

October 22, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , India , US , US elections , US Congress , Trump administration , President Biden , Project 2025

Modi’s message to West — Democracies too can deliver

S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

From being an intensely hated person, he has become the most admired world leader in just 10 years. Like the US presidential elections, the Indian parliamentary polls too attract the world’s attention. For two reasons. India’s emergence....

April 13, 2024 Governance and Political Studies , Article , India , Indian democracy , US elections , Narendra Modi

US Insights - February 2024

India-US Relations

U.S. State Department approves $4bn sale of armed drones to India

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of 31 armed MQ-9B SkyGuardian drones, related missiles and equipment to India fo....

March 14, 2024 foreign policy , US elections , Homeland Security , US Digests , India US Relations

Monthly Compilation of Views of VIF Expert Groups: October 2020

Aayush Mohanty

The Vivekananda International Foundation in October hosted different Expert Groups through video conferencing. Members of these groups contributed immensely by sharing knowledge gained through vast experience in their respective fields. This issue co....

November 05, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , India , Pakistan , China , foreign policy , US elections , Turkey , Economic Growth

The United States and the COVID Challenge: it’s Impact on the 2020 Presidential Election

Dr Harinder Sekhon Article

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the United States. In June, the US crossed the two million mark in infected cases and has reported over 117 thousand deaths. Of these, New York alone has recorded over 382,000 cases, far higher than most nat....

June 16, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Article , Donald Trump , US elections , Pandemic , New York , US economy , Immigration , Paycheck Protection Program , COVID Challenge , US Demographics , US Unemployment , Great Depression , CARES Act , America's troubles , H1B Visas , Epicentres of the disease , Rural America.

Jesus as a Third Candidate in the US elections

Prof R Vaidyanathan

In the last 30 or so years the importance of Jesus in US elections has increased substantially. This is in a situation where Christianity– in the church going /family values sense– has seen a decline. The number of birth out of wedlock has increa....

May 12, 2016 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Obama , Secularism , US elections