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

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

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

Covid: Missing facts, misdirected discourse

S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Commentary

"One-fifth of Indian districts have not reported any Covid-19 cases for the last seven days. We seem to have flattened the Covid curve,” declared Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan two months back, on February 15. By then the daily infections t....

May 04, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , India , COVID-19 , Oxygen , Dr Harsh Vardhan

Biden’s Exit Plan: US decides to Pullout Troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021

Dr Anwesha Ghosh Article

On April 13, 2021, US President Joe Biden announced the departure of American troops from Afghanistan by September 11 this year- a symbolic date, coinciding with the horrific terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in the New York City and Pentago....

April 28, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Afghanistan , Article , India , Afghanistan , Taliban , Civil war , Biden announcement , US troops withdrawal , Istanbul Conference , neighbouring countries

Yoshihide Suga’s Tryst with India

Dr Anil Rawat Article

When Prime Minster Abe Shinzo laid down his office in August 2020 rather suddenly it sent shock waves of anxiety among most Japan watchers, policy planners and the political elite in India. Everyone wondered as to what could be the future of this bur....

April 27, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , India , China , QUAD , Japan , shinzo abe , Yoshihide Suga , Free & Open Indo-Pacific

To Friends in the United States: Ease Global Vaccine Manufacturing

Rudra Chaudhuri Commentary

The current public health crisis in India is devastating. On April 22, 2021, India recorded 332,921 COVID-19 cases and over 2,000 fatalities. It is unlikely that the second wave of the pandemic will level out anytime soon. The desperate need for oxyg....

April 24, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Commentary , India , COVID-19 , Joe Biden , Covishield , AstraZenca , Defense Production Act , supply constraints , vaccine shortage

Climate Change Summit: India Should Invest in Climate Action but Resist Western Pressure

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

Coinciding with Earth Day, President Biden will be hosting a summit of world leaders to discuss climate change on 22-23nd April 2021. The purpose of the summit is to persuade the leaders to undertake ambitious goals to cut the greenhouse emissions an....

April 19, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Article , India , China , Climate Change , PM Modi , renewable energy , Biden , CO2 emissions , John Kerry , Paris Agreement , Kyoto Protocol

New Leadership Takes Charge in Vietnam: Challenges and Prospects

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

On 05 April Vietnam’s National Assembly officially elected Mr. Pham Minh Chinh, member of the Politburo as the Prime Minister of Vietnam replacing the erstwhile Prime Minister Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc. The National Assembly resolution was passed with t....

April 13, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , India , UNSC , South China Sea , Vietnam , Nguyen Phu Trong , National Assembly , PM Pham Minh Chinh , President Xuan Phuc , Quang Ninh

Japan’s Strategic Outlook in the Indo-Pacific

Amb Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa

Japan is the pioneer of the Indo-Pacific construct. India and Japan are close partners in the Indo-Pacific. Join Ms. Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa and Amruta Karambelkar as they discuss Japansee foreign policy & its security interests in the Indo-Pacific.....

March 25, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , India , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Japan , shinzo abe , Podcast , Senkaku