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Neighborhood News Digest- 18 March 2025

Afghanistan
Signing of the Second Phase of Wakhan Road Contract-Tolo News
The signing of the construction contract for the second phase of the Wakhan road in Badakhshan province has been warmly welcomed by the residents of the....

March 18, 2025 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , Maldives , Myanmar , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Constitution , Bangladesh , UNAMA , Immigration , Waziristan , BNP , India-Myanmar , US-Bangladesh , Wakhan , UN Human Rights Office , Adani Group , Bhutan-US , Border Fencing , Gas and Oil Reserves , Balochistan.
Neighborhood News Digest- 11 July 2024

Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Exports to Iran Reach $16 Million-Tolo News
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce states that Afghanistan's exports to Iran from the beginning of the current solar year until the 10th of Saratan (sola....

July 11, 2024 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , China , Nepal , economy , Maldives , Iran , Myanmar , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Constitution , Bangladesh , Panjshir , Bhutan Economy , Bangladesh-China , ECP , Chin , Maldives-China Relations , National Debt , Maldives-Sri Lanka Relations , Electric Vehicles (EVs) , ISI.
June 26, 2024: Golden Jubilee of the Blackest Day
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

Three generations of Indians who grew later remained illiterates about the very fact of Emergency and about how Constitution ceased to exist and autocracy was institutionalised by it. Rahul Gandhi was waving the Constitution of India as Prime Mini....

June 26, 2024 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Constitution , Indira Gandhi , Emergency
Neighborhood News Digest- 15 May 2024

Afghanistan
Eight Govt Institutions Merged Into Ministries-Tolo News
Based on a decree from the leader of the Islamic Emirate, eight government institutions that were not previously under the management of ministries have now ....

May 15, 2024 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , economy , Maldives , Iran , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Constitution , Japan , Supreme Court , Bangladesh , LTTE , Imran Khan , Dubai , India-Maldives relations , Environment , Rohingyas , Bhutan Economy , Russia-Myanmar , EU-Nepal , India-Sri Lanka , US-Bangladesh , Istanbul , Airstrike , Asian Highway-1 , Maldives-UK Trade Talks , Bharat Mitra Samman-Indology Award
India’s Resilient Constitution
Rup Narayan Das Commentary

The government decided in November 2015 to observe 26th November as Constitution Day or Sambidhan Divas to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution on 26th November 1949 which came into effect from 26th January 1950. The basic objective b....

November 29, 2023 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Constitution , Fundamental Rights , Gandhi , Amedkar , Anhony Eden , Talisman
Changing Dynamics of India-Myanmar Relations
Amb Preet Mallik

The VIF has published the book titled “Revisiting Myanmar: Present Through Past,'' which is coedited by Brig Vinod Anand and myself, Cchavi Vasisht. The initiative to collaborate with various ambassadors and scholars have helped us develop a bette....

September 05, 2023 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Constitution , Armed forces , Northeast India , Podcast , Military Takeover , India-Myanmar
Recalling the pre-March 24, 1940 Idea of India
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Commentary

But answers to such questions, important as they are, will hardly capture the deeper vision that underlies Modi’s Sengol mission. Why did Narendra Modi choose to recall the August 14-15, 1947 midnight history of Sengol now? Why did he time it....

June 23, 2023 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Constitution , post-independence , Sengol , New Parliament building
Neighborhood News Digest – 20 April 2023

Afghanistan
US watchdog ‘cannot assure’ Afghanistan aid not going to Taliban - Aljazeera
The head of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has decried a lack of transparency from United States ag....

April 20, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , China , Russia , Nepal , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , President , Constitution , Japan , election , Bangladesh , Security , Taliban , Ukraine , UK , Easter attacks , UN , Pakistan Economy , Human Rights , Suu Kyi , Hydropower , Punjab elections , AIIMS , Atrocity , Air Quality , State Expenditure and Revenue , IMF deal , Local Polls
Neighborhood News Digest – 10 March 2023

Afghanistan
Afghanistan blast: Taliban governor killed in his office – BBC
The Taliban governor of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province has been killed in a suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. Mohammad Dawo....

March 10, 2023 Neighbourhood Studies , India , Pakistan , Nepal , SCO , Maldives , Myanmar , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , President , Constitution , Japan , ISIS , elections , Bangladesh , Imran Khan , Women , Debt , Hydropower , US aid
The Future of Ethiopia's Peace Deal
Samir Bhattacharya Article

There are nations with states and nations without a state. And in Sub-Saharan Africa, there is a third category: states without nations. One such case in point is Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a Federal Democratic Republic with two chartered cities and nine ....

February 24, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Article , Ethiopia , nationalism , Constitution , Federalism , Abiy Ahmed , TPLF , Ethno-Nationalism , Eritria , Political instability
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