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Opportunities before India: Chabahar Port and India Ports Global Ltd. - Involvement Portends Extended Cooperation among Iran-India and Afghanistan
Gautam Sen Article

Formal inauguration of India Ports Global Ltd (IPGL) - an Indian private registered company and classified as a Union Government company - operations on 25th December last year, at Shahid Beheshti port at Chabahar in Iran`s Sistan-Balochis....

January 21, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , India Ports Global Ltd , Chabahar Shahid Behesti Port , India-Iran relations
Interaction with Iranian Delegation

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted an interactive session with an Iranian delegation represented by Seyed Mohammd Kazem Sajjadpour, the President of Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), a think-tank based in Te....

January 18, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Afghanistan , Syria , Iranian Delegation , IPIS
Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Changing the Nature of War?
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd) Article

Introduction
The professional military body differentiates between an objective nature and a subjective character of war by drawing upon Clausewitz. Nature of war describes what war is and character of war describes how it is actually fou....

January 18, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , artificial intelligence , Nature and character of war
भारत-मोजाम्बिक रिश्तेः बेहतरी की ओर अग्रसर
Dr Neha Sinha Article

मोजाम्बिक गणराज्य अफ्रीकी महाद्वीप के दक्षिण-पूर्वी भाग में स्थित है। इस देश की आबादी 3 करोड़ ह�....

January 18, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Article , भारत- मोजाम्बिक संबंध , भारत- मोजाम्बिक संयुक्त आयोग
Swami Vivekananda’s Idea of Service
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

What is the concept of service? Swami Vivekananda says: “This is the gist of all worship — to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva; and if he sees Shiva only....

January 17, 2019 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , Vivekananda’s ideals , Idea of service
Research and Development Reforms
Rajesh Singh Commentary

Iconic slogans evolve with time, reflecting changing aspirations and needs of society in general and the political leadership in particular. Lal Bahadur Shastri’s famous ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ cry had been tweaked to ‘Jai Jawan, Jai....

January 16, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Jai Anusandhan , India’s R&D
Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016-Implications for Assam
C D Sahay Commentary

The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 (CAB) has created a division in Assam along historical fault lines. The differences hark back to the language riots of 1960-61, and then again in 1972, with violent conflicts between the entire Assamese and the Hi....

January 14, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Assam Accord , Citizenship Amendment Bill
CAB 2016: Home Minister Assures Assam on Sharing of Burden
Nitin A Gokhale Commentary

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, while introducing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 (CAB) in Lok Sabha mentioned, and rightly so, that the entire country will share the burden of refugees and it will not be Assam’s responsibility alone to give sh....

January 14, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Citizenship (Amendment) Bill , Opposition to CAB
Gandhi and the Question of Racism: The Statue Controversy in Ghana
Dr Neha Sinha Article

With the gaining of Independence from the Britishers in 1957, the Gold Coast of Africa came to be known as Ghana with Accra as its capital. The country lies in the western part of Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea; bordered by Togo, Ivory Coast, Burkina ....

January 11, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Article , Gandhi in Africa , Ghanian misunderstanding of Gandhi
Bangladesh : Leveraging its Locational Advantage
Dr Sreeradha Datta Commentary

India and Bangladesh recently made history. After years of discussion and negotiations the first land and air transshipment between them finally took place towards the end of 2018. The first bonded container 4.41 tonne cargo from Bangladesh moved thr....

January 11, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Commentary , Bangladesh elections , Indo-Bangladesh transport and economic partnership
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