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Internet Lockdowns: Is There Any Other Way Out?

India's internet revolution is fast transforming its political, social, cultural, and technological landscape. One of the most critical factors that ensured the landslide victory of PM Modi with his razor-sharp and a straight-forward nationalist dis....

March 23, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , Pakistan , Kashmir , IB , Social Media , OGWs , DGISPR , foreign terrorists

Commentary - J&K: Special Representative’s Road Ahead will not be Easy

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

Appointment of Mr Dineshwar Sharma , former Director of Intelligence Bureau (DIB), as special ‘Representative’(SR) by the government for Kashmir to interact with the wide cross section of society in Kashmir to understand their “legitimate aspi....

November 04, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Rajnath Singh , J&K special Representative , Kashmir dialogue , Home Minister , Dineshwar_Sharma , Intelligence Bureau , IB , Ajit Dovl

Kashmir - A new Opportunity has Opened Up

C D Sahay

In a major initiative, Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh, on October 23, 2017 announced government’s decision to appoint Shri Dineshwar Sharma, former Director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) as ‘Representative’ of Government of India ‘to ca....

October 27, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Rajnath Singh , Jammu & Kashmir , Home Minister , IB , J&K dialogue , Government’s Representative , Dineshwar Sharma , Govt of india , Lashkar-e Toiba , Mahbooba Mufti