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Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

On August 30-31, the seven-member Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) held its 4th Summit at Kathmandu within a span of over two decades. Many observers had begun to cast a shadow of doubt on its r....

September 10, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , BIMSTEC , 4th Kathmandu Summit , Asian regional cooperation

Pakistan: An Analysis of the Participation of Religious Parties in Elections, 2018

Shruti Punia Article

Elections 2018 in Pakistan would no doubt be remembered for the victory of Imran Khan. They were essentially a contest between the ‘naya Pakistan’ and ‘tabdeeli’ narrative of Imran Khan, and the ‘vote ko izzat do’ and develo....

September 07, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Article , Pakistan Elections , Electoral gains of religious parties

इमरान खान के नेतृत्व में पाकिस्तान – भारत-पाक संबंधों की भावी दिशा

Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

जिसने भी पाकिस्तान के प्रधानमंत्री इमरान खान को 25 जुलाई, 2018 को उस समय बोलते सुना होगा, जब यह स्पष्�....

September 07, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Article , इमरान खान की सत्ता , भारत-पाकिस्तान रिश्ते

Emerging Strategic Dynamics in Indo-Pacific and India-Vietnam Cooperation

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Article

International order is undergoing profound and rapid changes, which compel all powers to continually adapt their foreign and security policies, in order to protect their national interests to the extent possible. The term Indo-Pacific though over a d....

September 06, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Indo-Pacific concept , India-Vietnam Cooperation

कृषि की वृद्धि में एमएसपी की भूमिका

Rajesh Singh Article

देश भर में फैले कृषि संकट से राहत देने के लिए केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल ने जुलाई में एक महत्वपूर्ण कद�....

September 05, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Article , कृषि संकट से राहत , न्यूनतम समर्थन मूल्य

Prospects for India–China Maritime Cooperation

Commodore Somen Banerjee Article

Introduction

The keynote address of Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered at the Shangri-La Dialogue on June 01, 2018, succinctly spelt out India’s Indo-Pacific strategy between the “shifting plates of global politics and the fault l....

September 05, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , India , China , Pollution of the seas , Maritime cooperation , Pollution

China Accused of Practicing Racial Discrimination by United Nations Watchdog Body

Amb Bhaswati Mukherjee Article

China’s aggressive efforts to position itself as a global leader recently came under challenge at the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the global watch dog on racial discrimination. CERD expressed serious concern ove....

September 04, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , UNCERD Report , Persecution of Uyghurs , Human rights in Xinjiang

Making Sense of Missile Shield

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

The media picks up the tag line "India puts up a missile shield" every time there is news related, one way or the other, to the plan to acquire a surface-to-air-missile (SAM) system. The so called "missile shield" filled the media space when there wa....

August 31, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Air defence , S-400 , Missile Defence

समकालिक चुनाव: सहमति, असहमति और समाधान

Shiwanand Dwivedi Article

समकालिक चुनाव अर्थात एक साथ सभी चुनाव कराने का मुद्दा इसबीच चर्चा में है। इसको लेकर पक्ष और विप�....

August 30, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Article , समकालिक चुनाव , बुनियादी चुनावी चुनौती

Pakistan’s New Government: Are there reasons for Hope?

Sanjiv Khanna Article

The 2018 General Elections in Pakistan are over and the Imran Khan led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Party (PTI) emerged as the single largest Party in the National Assembly, and formed the Government. Most of the parties alleged rigging and refused to a....

August 29, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Article , Pakistan Government , Imran and Islamists , Legitimacy of civilian leadership