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Xi Hajoor ! Old Wine in the ‘New Era’ for Myanmar

Background

Myanmar effectively boarded the BRI when Aung San Suu Kyi attended the First Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing in May 2017. President Xi Jinping even acknowledged Myanmar in the context of the BRI in ....

January 22, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , New Era , Xi Jinping visits Myanmar , Xi Hajoor! , Documents Signed , Hearts and Minds Investments

Year Review: Pakistan in 2019

Dr Yatharth Kachiar Commentary

The year 2019 brought optimism as well as trials for Pakistan in equal measure. In 2019, Pakistan under Prime Minister Imran Khan was occupied in confronting numerable challenges at the domestic as well as international levels. At the domestic front,....

January 22, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Commentary , India , Pakistan , US , foreign policy , Army , economy , Afghanistan , Saudi

New Year review of major FP/security developments in the region

Mayuri Mukherjee Article

Bangladesh

Upon winning the general election held in December 2018, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sworn into office on January 3. This marked the beginning of her third consecutive term following the electoral victories of 2009 and 2....

January 18, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Article , Bangladesh , Terror attack , Security developments , Nationalist Party , Chinese FDI

2019: A Year of Missed Opportunities for Afghanistan

Dr Yatharth Kachiar Article

The year 2019 ended for Afghanistan on a more chaotic and disappointing note because of two major reasons: a) failure in achieving any major breakthrough in the ongoing peace process with the Taliban, specifically in relation to the ceasefire and int....

January 13, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Article , Presidential election , Peace talks , Ceasefire , Intra-Afghan dialogue , US-Iran escalation

Notes from the Sub-continent: CAA, NRC and others

Mayuri Mukherjee Commentary

In this fortnight’s compilation of some of the big ideas being debated in the media across the Indian sub-continent, we look, first, at the coverage of India’s recent amendment of its Citizenship Act and the related issue of preparing a national ....

January 12, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Commentary , Nepal , Sri Lanka , Constitution , NRC , CAA , Saffroni , Modi-Shah

VIF Delegation Visit to Myanmar

A delegation from VIF led by Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director and comprising of Lt Gen (Retd) Ravi Sawhney, Amb (Retd) Gautam Mukhopadhaya, Dr Sreeradha Datta and Col Jaideep Chanda visited Myanmar from 9 – 12 December 2019. The delegation interacted....

January 02, 2020 Conference , Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Visit to Myanmar , MISS , Rohingya , UEHRD , Human Rights Commission , Foreign Affairs , MIPS

Digital Empowerment of Myanmar

Radhika Daga Article

Introduction

On Oct 1, 2019, Myanmar celebrated “U-day”, to mark the official transition from its homegrown digital font Zawgyi (pronounced as “zaw-jee”) to a unified font conforming to the international standards of “Unicode�....

December 30, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Myanmar , technology , Cyber-security , Digitalisation

Afghanistan Presidential Election: Analysing the Preliminary results

Dr Yatharth Kachiar Commentary

Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) has finally announced the preliminary results of the Presidential elections held in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019. The results, though not final, gave a thin majority to the incumbent President....

December 27, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Commentary , Taliban , Afghanistan Elections , Ashraf Ghani , Abdullah Abdullah , UNAMA

Round Table Discussion on India-Nepal Relations

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a Round Table Discussion to discuss India-Nepal relations on 7th November 2019. This everlasting friendship is now also being called a ‘strategic partnership’. This relationship was analyse....

December 26, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Interaction , China , BIMSTEC , India-Nepal relations , FDI , Madhesi , China policy

भारत-बांग्लादेश : द्विपक्षीय संबंधों के आगे की बात

Dr Sreeradha Datta Article

द्विपक्षीय संबंध नई ऊँचाइयों को छुए इसके लिए किस बात की ज़रूरत होती है? हाल की स्थितियों को देखते....

December 17, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Article , बांग्लादेश के सरोकार , बांग्लादेश प्रधानमंत्री की य़ात्रा , भारत-बांग्लादेश संबंध