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The Need to Activate the National Disaster Management Authority in Pandemic Times

India is facing a health emergency of unprecedented proportions. The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed over 250,000 lives and infected over 24 million people in India. It is now rapidly spreading to rural areas where health infrastructure is mea....

May 18, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Article , COVID-19 , NDMA , MHA , Disaster Management Act , DDMA , SDMA

Nepal Urges International Community to help in fight against COVID-19

Prof Hari Bansh Jha Article

Being helpless to control the unbridled growth in coronavirus cases, the Nepalese Prime Minister, K.P. Sharma Oli has appealed to the international community to help the Himalayan nation by supplying vaccines, coronavirus testing kits, oxygen kits, I....

May 18, 2021 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Article , India , KP Sharma Oli , COVID-19 , Vaccines , Oxygen , Mt. Everest

रूस-पाकिस्तान संबंध एक भुलावा

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

रूस के विदेश मंत्री लावरोव 5-6 अप्रैल 2021 को भारत दौरे पर आए था। उनका मकसद अपने राष्ट्रपति व्लादिमी....

May 18, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Russia , Article , पाकिस्तान। चीन। रूस। क्वाड। एक्ट फार ईस्ट। एशियाई नाटो। लावरोव।

Focussing on the Vaccines is the Need of the Hour: Some Suggestions

(VIF Experts Group Report) Article

The country is amid an unprecedented pandemic that has taken a heavy toll on life which exceeds that in all the wars that India has been involved in in the last 100 years. The crisis has to be dealt with on a war footing. The infection is now sp....

May 17, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Article , COVID-19 , human resources , distribution , Central Asset Mapping , CoWin app , procurement , vaccine production

Japan and South Korea Talk but Old Issues Continue to Figure

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

While the China factor, particularly its assertive and expansionist policies on a host of regional issues, and North Korea’s nuclear and missile development programmes are perennial issues of concern for the rest of the Northeast Asian region, two ....

May 14, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Strategic Patience , Moon Jae-in , comfort women , textbook controversy , Motegi Toshimitsu , Chung Eui-yong , Blinken , grand bargain , North Korea’s nuclear and missile development , court ruling.

वियतनाम में नये नेतृत्व की चुनौतियां और संभावनाएं

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Article

वियतनाम नेशनल असेंबली (संसद) ने 5 अप्रैल 2021 को आधिकारिक रूप से पोलित ब्यूरो के सदस्य फाम मिन्ह चि�....

May 14, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , भारत। संयुक्त राष्ट्र सुरक्षा परिषद। दक्षिण चीन सागर। गुयेन फु त्रुंग। नेशनल असेम्बली। प्रधानमंत्री फाम मिन्ह चिन। राष्ट्रपति गुयेन जुआन फुक। क्वांग निन्ह।

Maoist Menace Calls for a Different Ball Game

Dr P M Nair Article

The massacre of 37 innocent personnel of the Security Forces (SF) of Government of India and the State Government, on 3rd April in Chhattisgarh, has led to widespread condemnation, even from the Prime Minister. Such mass killing of SF invites serio....

May 13, 2021 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Development , CRPF , Security Forces , Kishenji , Lalgarh , Maoist , rural employment

US / NATO Withdrawal from Afghanistan and its Implications

Amb Amar Sinha Article

The author had the opportunity to attend on 5 May 2021 a very engaging round table jointly hosted by the Vivekananda Foundation, New Delhi, and Hudson Institute, Washington DC on the imminent US/NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan and its impact on the ....

May 12, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , US , Afghanistan , Article , India , Pakistan , China , Iran , Afghanistan , Taliban , Biden , Doha Agreement

Modi Government: An Evaluation

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

As the nation reels under the impact of the monstrous second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic Prime Minister Modi has been the focus of much criticism, some justified and some unjustified, for the failure to avert it and to mitigate its adverse impact. ....

May 11, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Article , foreign policy , Make in India , Smart Cities , COVID-19 , Vaccines , Police Reforms , Bureaucratic apathy , socio-economic policies , security measures , Swacch Bharat

Afghanistan Stares at an Uncertain Future

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

The American troops are withdrawing from Afghanistan without an agreed political system in place. After nearly 20 years of a democratic period, Afghanistan is at the risk of losing the gains it made in the last 20 years of a democratic system. ....

May 11, 2021 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Article , China , Russia , Afghanistan , Taliban , Al Qaeda , Biden , Doha Agreement , Iran Pakistan , President Ghani , Troops withdrawal