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US-India Partnership: Crisis Management in the Pandemic Era and Future of the Relationship
K P Vijayalakshmi Article

It is widely accepted that India and the United States have transformed their relationship in the post Cold War era. In the years from the Clinton administration, both US and India found increasing congruence in the security, economic and politics of....

June 10, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Article , Indian Diaspora , WHO , COVID-19 , WTO , Biden , Defence production Act , Indo-US Vaccine Action Programme , UN Forums , Vaccine Alliance
Nepalese Budget 2021-22: Whiter Madhesh?
Prof Hari Bansh Jha Commentary

As the parliament in Nepal was dissolved by President Bidya Devi Bhandari on May 22 to pave the way for the mid-term elections in November, a week later, on May 29, in a televised address Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel presented the annual budget pl....

June 10, 2021 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Commentary , Nepal , COVID-19 , Budget , Terai
महामारी के समय राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण को क्रियाशील करने की जरूरत
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

भारत इस समय अभूतपूर्व स्तर पर स्वास्थ्य आपात स्थिति का सामना कर रहा है। कोविड -19 महामारी अब तक 250,00....

June 09, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Article , COVID-19 , NDMA , MHA , DDMA , SDMA , आपदा प्रबंधन अधिनियम
Second China-Central Asia (C+C5) Foreign Ministers Meet: Major Takeaways
Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Background
China’s relations with its Central Asian neighbours have been complicated. Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Central Asia has been crucial for Chinese foreign policy for two reasons. First, the security of its nor....

June 07, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Article , China , Kyrgyzstan , SCO , INSTC , Chabahar Port , Kazakhstan , Eurasian Economic Union , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , BRI , COVID-19 , China's Belligerence , C+C5 , Afghanistan. Uzbekistan
Will US politics bury or expose truth?
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Commentary

Respected science writer Nicholas Wade uncovers more. About how the guild of virology obfuscated, the World Health Organisation was suborned, the anti-Trump US media kept silent and the divided US polity let the culprit escape. Being a disciplined wr....

May 28, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , US , PLA , Chinese Military , Media , WHO , COVID-19 , Biden Administration , Wuhan Institute , US-China politics
Quagmire in Lebanon: Between Domestic Mismanagement and External Interference

Lebanon in the current decade has witnessed pressing economic instability, political turmoil, large scale protests, and clashes with security officials, fires and explosion exposing the gross mismanagement and the incapacity of the present political ....

May 28, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Iran , COVID-19 , Lebanon , Hezbollah , Beirut Port Blast , French Inititiative , Confessionalism , Harari government
Covid-19: The villain, bats or bat lady
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Commentary

Even now, what the world knows about the mysterious virus 18 months after it broke out in Wuhan city in China, is that it is mysterious. Though officially called Covid-19 after its name was changed many times within three months of its detection, its....

May 27, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , US , China , Global Security , Wuhan virus , WHO , COVID-19 , SARS , Wuhan Institute of Virology
टीकाकरण पर ध्यान देने का समय: कुछ सुझाव
(VIF Experts Group Report) Article

आज देश ऐसी अभूतपूर्व महामारी से गुजर रहा है जिसने इतनी जिंदगियों को अपना शिकार बनाया है जो पिछल�....

May 27, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Article , COVID-19 , मानव संसाधन , वितरण , केंद्रीय संपत्ति मानचित्रण , CoWin , खरीद , वैक्सीन उत्पादन
Introduction to India’s Strategic Thinking and its Determinants

The VIF organized the third series of lectures on India’s national security and strategic culture from 12 to 14 October 2020 in a virtual mode in continuation of the initiative taken in the previous year. The webinar enabled young students, academi....

May 20, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Seminars , Climate Change , Indian Economy , Article 370 , Indian Strategic Thinking , India foreign policy , COVID-19 , Civilizational state
The Need to Activate the National Disaster Management Authority in Pandemic Times
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

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
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