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Nepal: Twin City Agreement and Connectivity between Janakpur and Ayodhya

Background People to people relations between Nepal and India continue unabated since time immemorial. No other two countries of the world are as much bound together as these countries in social, cultural, religious, economic and ....

December 13, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , India , Nepal , Janakpur , Ayodhya , UP , BJP , Twin City Agreement , Ram Mandir , Sita swayambar , Nitin Gadkari , Ram Janaki Marg , Integrated Development

कश्मीर – सामने आया नया मौका

C D Sahay

केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने एक बड़ा कदम उठाते हुए 23 अक्टूबर, 2017 को ऐलान किया कि भारत सरकार न�....

December 05, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , कश्मीर राजनीतिक प्रक्रिया , केंद्र सरकार प्रतिनिधि , POK

जम्मू कश्मीर: विशेष प्रतिनिधि के लिए आसान नहीं होगी राह

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

खुफिया ब्यूरो के पूर्व निदेशक श्री दिनेश्वर शर्मा को सरकार ने कश्मीर के लोगों की “जायज इच्छाओं....

November 24, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Rajnath Singh , Kashmir , POK , जम्मू कश्मीर , Jammu , Pakistn , Indian Army

सरदार सरोवर परियोजना: बड़ी उपलब्धि

Rajesh Singh

प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने दक्षिण गुजरात में नर्मदा नदी पर बना सरदार सरोवर बांध 17 सितंबर को र....

November 17, 2017 India , BJP , modi , Sardar Sarovar , सरदार सरोवर बांध , सिंचाई विकास , Indian Farmer

Analysis of China’s 19th Party Congress

Jayadeva Ranade

Already holding over fourteen formal positions -- more than any other Chinese communist Party (CCP) leader so far – CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping has, as anticipated, emerged considerably stronger from this Congress. By skilful use of the sus....

November 17, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , India , China , modi , China’s 19th Party Congress , Xi Jinping , 19th Congress Work Report , China’s policy pronouncements

Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal Malhotra, Harper Collins Publishers, India, Pages 400, Price Rs 799/-.

Rajesh Singh

It was Elie Wiesel who had said, “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilisation, no society, no future.” The Holocaust survivor would know, as would those in India and Pakistan who went through the trauma of ....

November 13, 2017 Governance and Political Studies , India , Pakistan , Book Reviews , Mahatma Gandhi , 1947 , Islamic nation

India-Uzbekistan Relations: New Opportunities

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Important Neighbour There are common elements in the Indian and Central Asian experience. Both were connected by constant flow of men, goods and ideas. Samarkand and Bokhara are as much part of our history as Uzbek history. In the....

November 13, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , India , Uzbekistan , Indo- Uzbekistan relations , PM’s visit to Uzbekistan

भाजपा कैसे जीती... और कांग्रेस कैसे हारी

Rajesh Singh

कांग्रेस के जिन गलियारों में निराशा के जाले और हार की सीलन मजबूत ये मजबूत इरादे वालों को भी उलटे....

November 13, 2017 Governance and Political Studies , India , Congress , BJP , modi , Rahul Gandhi , कांग्रेस का चुनावी रणनीति , जीत का मंत्र

Key to Conflict Management in Kashmir is People, Politics and Perception

Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)

Violence is a type of backwardness and it is enormously powerful tool to coerce the communally fractured population to revolt against the state. But sustaining the uprising would need psychological mentoring and shaping of the perception of the peopl....

November 06, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , Jammu , Pakistan strategies , hybrid war , Kashmiri culture , 360