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VIF News Digest : National Security- Defence Studies & Terrorism (16-31 March 2025)

Defence

  1. Raksha Mantri’s Meet with the US Director of National Intelligence
  2. India-Australia 9th Defence Policy Talks
  3. Director General Defence Intelligence Agen....

    April 17, 2025 Defense, National Security and Terrorism , India , Pakistan , Myanmar , Australia , Defence , Kashmir , Africa , Terrorism , J&K , Maoists , LWE , Italy , Netherlands , Bharat , Khalistan , FICN , Human Trafficking , VARUNA2025 , OPBRAHMA
Internal Security Monitor (1-15 April, 2025) Vol 1, No 12

Tahawwur Rana, a co-conspirator in the Mumbai multiple terror attacks in 2008 has been extradited to India. Speaking to the media, former Home Secretary G K Pillai said ‘he is a small fish’ and David Headly is yet to be extradited. However, it se....

April 16, 2025 Kashmir , Odisha , chhattisgarh , Terror , Amit Shah , Manipur , Sukma , Communist , Arunachal Pradesh , Armed Forces Special Powers Act , Kuki , Maoist , Cyber , Nigeria , Narcotics , Human Trafficking , Coastal Security , Gujarat , Internal Security Monitor , KYKL , surrender , Tahawwur Rana , Bijapur , Nagaland , Zo , Naxalites , Heroin , Cocaine , People’s Revolutionary Party Kangleipak , PREPAK , Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup , KCP , UPPK , Yawol Kanna Lup , Telangana , Kothagudem , Mulugu , Tamil Nadu , Hizb Tahrir , Unlawful Activities Prevention , National Investigation Agency , Indian Mujahideen , Lashkar Toiba , Narcotic Psychotropic , Enforcement Directorate , Methamphetamine , International Maritime Boundary.
Internal Security Monitor Vol 1, No 11

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government is committed to zero tolerance towards terrorism and added that Article 370 of the Constitution that has been the basis of terrorism, has been abrogated. By implication he said terrorism would soon en....

April 01, 2025 Kashmir , Jammu , Home Minister , chhattisgarh , Punjab , Rajya Sabha , Terror , Amit Shah , Money Laundering , Armed Forces Special Powers Act , Mumbai , Maoist , Cyber , Narco , NDPS , Babbar Khalsa , Internal Security Monitor , Digital Arrest , Improvised Explosive , Claymore , Direction mine , Kanker , Bijapur , Kathua , Dibrugarh
Hamas-Pakistan Terror Nexus in PoJK: A Wake-Up Call for Bharat?
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Commentary

दुर्जनः परिहर्तव्यो विद्ययाsलंकृतोऽपि सन्। मणिना भूषितः सर्पः किम् असौ न भयंकरः॥ - ‘नीतीश�....

March 12, 2025 Terrorism , Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Israel , Pakistan , US , Iran , Kashmir , Terrorism , LeT , IM , JeM , POJK , Hamas , Mujahideen , Bharat , UAPA , SIMI
Internal Security Monitor Vol 1, No 9

The past fortnight was rather eventless. Manipur Governor Ajay Bhalla appealed to armed groups to surrender weapons following the imposition of President’s Rule in the State necessitated by intense clashes between various groups over the past sever....

March 05, 2025 India , Rajnath Singh , Mizoram , Defence , Kashmir , chhattisgarh , Manipur , Coast Guard , Maoist , Bastar , FICN , Fake Currency , Internal Security Monitor , militant groups , surrender , arrest , Ajay Bhalla , Tahawwur Rana , done
Internal Security Monitor Vol 1, No 5

The last fortnight of 2024 concluded rather largely peacefully. Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed to the Maoists to lay down arms, join the mainstream and avail of the surrender and rehabilitation scheme. While a few surrenders of Maoists have b....

December 31, 2024 Kashmir , Jammu , chhattisgarh , Assam , NIA , Amit Shah , Manipur , ULFA , Bastar , Drone , Narcotics , Dawood , SSB , Maharashtra , NDPS , Internal Security Monitor , Digital Arrest , Home Ministry , Naxal Maoist , DKSZC , Ranchi , NRB , Gadchiroli , JuD , Hafiz , Rahman , Makki , Paresh Baruah , KCP PW , KZF , Danish Merchant , Siliguri
Ganderbal Attack 2024: The Emergence of Pakistan-Sponsored TRF
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Commentary

Pakistan has been sponsoring terrorism in Bharat for over the past 30 years to undermine the stability of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (hereafter J&K) and other parts of the country. Post-nullification of Article 370 in 2019, J&K did....

October 29, 2024 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , Radicalisation , Terrorism , Islam , LeT , Bharat , TRF , Ganderbal
Despite Hiccups, India-Malaysia Ties on Track
Rajesh Singh Commentary

The India-Malaysia relationship has come a long way since 2019, when Malaysia’s the then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad ruined the ties with his uncalled-for remark on Kashmir—he said that ‘New Delhi had invaded and occupied Kashmir’. He ha....

August 20, 2024 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Kashmir , Zakir Naik , CAA , Mahathir Mohammad , Anwar Ibrahim
Book Discussion on Terror Financing in Kashmir

On 01 August 2024, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted a comprehensive book discussion on Dr Abhinav Pandya’s book titled Terror Financing in Kashmir. Under the aegis of Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF, the event brought toge....

August 09, 2024 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Book Discussions , FATF , Kashmir , Terror Financing , UN , Bharat
VIF News Digest : National Security- Defence Studies & Terrorism, (01-15 May 2024)

Defence
  1. Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, AVSM, VSM assumes charge as Vice Chief of Naval Staff.
  2. 7th India-Indonesia Joint Defence Cooperation Committee meeting held in New Delhi.
    May 21, 2024 Defense, National Security and Terrorism , Pakistan , Russia , Defence , Kashmir , Indian Air Force , POK , Indian Army , Al-Shabaab , Africa , Terrorism , DRDO , J&K , LWE , Balochistan , Indian Navy , LeT , Ministry of Defence , Somalia , Bharat , FICN , exercise , Aatmanirbhar , Islamic , Indian Coast Guard , Nijjar , Martime , Naval Base , Defence Acquisition , Muzaffarabad
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