Articles

India Launches World’s First Intranasal Anti-Covid Vaccine

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Positive Bharat

On 26th January 27, 2023, Bharat Biotech launched the world’s first intranasal vaccine against Covid 19 in New Delhi. The vaccine uses a modified chimpanzee adenovirus to carry the Covid spike protein and cannot replicate in the body. It was develo....

February 20, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Covid 19 , Bharat Biotech , Covishield , Covaxin , Positive Bharat , intranasal vaccine

Fumio Kishida’s Priorities and India-Japan Relations

Dr Anil Rawat Article

On 29th September 2021 when Fumio Kishida emerged as the winner in a struggle for party leadership the issue of next Prime Ministership of Japan was unequivocally settled. The election was necessitated by Yoshihide Suga’s announcement to step down ....

October 11, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , India , Indo-Pacific , Japan , Covid 19 , Olympics , Kishida , Priorities

Need for a Vigorous Africa Strategy

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

Africa enchants most people. But our relations and contacts with Africa have been umbilical to say the least. Africa is close to us and very important too is a given. Has it acquired salience remained debatable for quite some time despite the best i....

October 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Commentary , India , China , East Africa , PM Modi , Covid 19 , Asia Africa Growth Corridor , AfCFTA , debt traps , IAFS

Tablighi Jamaat in India: Evolution and Impact

Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

Brief Profile of Tablighi Jamaat (TJ)

The outbreak of COVID 19 pandemic in India coincided with headlines news in the Indian media on TJ. On 2 April 20 Lav Agarwal Joint Secretary Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated ‘COVID-19 ....

May 12, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Covid 19 , Tablighi Jamaat , Markaz , Indian secularism , independence movement

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 17, 2020

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Strategic

Wuhan adds 1,290 fatalities to coronavirus death toll

The Chinese city of Wuhan, ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic, has added more than a thousand deaths to its official count of lives lost to Covid-19. Afte....

April 17, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , ASEAN , WHO , COVID-19 Daily Scan , Covid 19 , Daily scan , Coronavirus lockdown , Coronavirus Podcast , US economic breakdown , Foreign Investment , COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 16, 2020

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Strategic

USS Theodore Roosevelt Outbreak Is Linked to Flight Crews, Not Vietnam Visit

US military officials are increasingly certain that the coronavirus outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in March was sp....

April 16, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , ASEAN , WHO , COVID-19 Daily Scan , Covid 19 , Daily scan , Coronavirus lockdown , Coronavirus Podcast , US economic breakdown , Foreign Investment , COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 14, 2020

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic

IMF cancels debt payments for 6 months for 25 poor nations

The International Monetary Fund approved $500 million on April 13 to cancel six months of debt payments for 25 of the world's most impoverished countries so t....

April 14, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Government , Coronavirus , Pandemic , COVID-19 Daily Scan , IMF , Covid 19 , Daily scan , lockdown , G20 finance ministers , Face masks

लॉकडाउन का पहला सप्ताह: आशा के बीच मिलेजुले परिणाम

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

चार-घंटे के नोटिस पर 3 सप्ताह के एक राष्ट्रव्यापी लॉकडाउन की घोषणा करने में साहस और दृढ़ विश्वास....

April 14, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Covid 19 , lockdown , Economic Task Force , PM CARES Fund , लॉकडाउन का पहला सप्ताह

Notes from the Sub-continent: Responses to COVID-19

Mayuri Mukherjee Article

In this latest compilation of some of the big ideas being debated in the media across the Indian sub-continent, we look at the coverage of the coronavirus (CoVid-19) outbreak over these past two months. It’s interesting to note the similar strands ....

April 05, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Article , Coronavirus , Pandemic , Covid 19 , Covid19 pandemic , Coronimics , South Asian solidarity , Chinese model , Peace Process

Tablighi Jamaat - its other, evil side

S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

Global security experts call it the antechamber of fundamentalism, claim it is used to nurse and indoctrinate terrorists. Except intelligence officials, national security experts and the wary among police officials, not many Indians would....

April 02, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Coronavirus , Covid 19 , Tablighi Jamaat , Nizamuddin