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Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

On 20 April 2020, the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud Party signed an agreement to form unity government with Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan Party ending the yearlong political deadlock and averting the possibility of fourth electio....

May 05, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , COVID-19; Likud; Kahol Lavan; MIddle East Peace Process; Annexation plan; Illegal settlements

Biological Security: An Imperative for Indo-US Partnership

Gaurav Kumar Article

Introduction

The conventional understanding of the term security-both traditional and non-traditional is heavily influenced by the state-centric approach. The proponents of various security policies use concept of security that has milit....

May 05, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Coronavirus , Healthcare , India-US Cooperation , Biological security , Lessons , Vaccine action programme

कोरोनावायरस ने भारत में परिवर्तन को गति दे दी है

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

जब से भारत में लॉकडाउन की शुरुआत हुई है, तब से सर्वाधिक रूप से कोरोनावायरस चर्चा के केंद्र में र�....

May 05, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Article , भारत , कोरोनावायरस , महामारी , लॉकडाउन , आर्थिक परिवर्तन

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

Vietnam: Integral to ASEAN and Reliable for Indo-Pacific

Dr Faisal Ahmed Article

Introduction

Vietnam will chair the 36th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in June this year. The summit which was initially scheduled in April has been shifted to June due to the Covid-19 outbreak. For Vietna....

May 01, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , South China Sea , Vietnam , Code of Conduct , ASEAN Centrality , ASEAN 2020 , Hanoi Plan of Action , Post Covid 19

Shift to Plant Based Proteins to Prevent Future Pandemics

Dr Vijay Sakhuja Article

Three consignments of African Pangolin scales have been recently seized at ports in two Southeast Asian countries. On the first day of April, port authorities in Port Kelang, Malaysia confiscated six tons of the contraband packed in a shipping contai....

May 01, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Article , COVID-19 , SARS-CoV-2 virus , Vegan , Vegetarian , Lab-grown meat , Kebabs , Soy , Poultry , Satvik

कोविड-19 पर हिंद-प्रशांत बैठक

Amruta Karambelkar Article

हिंद-प्रशांत के कुछ देशों के बीच 20 मार्च को कोविड-19 महामारी पर टेलीकॉन्फ्रेंस आयोजित की गई। बैठक....

May 01, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , कोविड-19 , हिंद-प्रशांत बैठक , कोविड-19 महामारी , हिंद-प्रशांत , अंतरराष्ट्रीय संबंध , दक्षिण कोरिया , कोविड-19 संकट

Myanmar Ethnic Strife: The Rise of Arakan Army

Dr Cchavi Vasisht, Research Associate, VIF Article

On 10 April 2009, the separatist Arakan Army (AA) established itself as a “revolutionary armed organisation” in Myanmar. Till 2015, it operated in Kachin and Shan States under the guidance of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) with headqua....

April 30, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Arakan army , 11th Anniversary of Arakan Army , Way of Rakhita , Arakan Dream 2020 , Riverine Warfare , Myanmar Government and Tatmadaw , India’s Role.

What the World Needs to Revise? – Lessons from Repository of Indian Civilisation’s Thought and Praxis

Gunjan Pradhan Sinha Article

As we stand amidst a crisis owing to the pandemic caused by the rapid spread of the deadly corona virus, there lie shrouded in ignorance and oversight immense learning for the world from Indian Food Ethics- a discipline where ethics and food collide<....

April 30, 2020 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Article , dharma , Food Ethics , Bhojana Dharma , COVID19 , Dharmaśa̅stras , Doṣa̅s