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Air Defence: De-Mystifying Facts from Euphoria
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Abstract If there was one news that dominated the media space like no other in the recently concluded BRICS Summit on 15-16 Oct, it was the one on the signing of the contract between India and Russia for the purchase of five Regiments ....

November 03, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Air defence , S 400 , Indo-Russian weapon trade , Ground Based Air Defence , BMC2 , ARH , UCAVs , UAVs , SSMs , Surface-to-Surface Missiles , Surface to Air Missiles , Voyska
Interaction with Dr. Sakhawat Hussain, Former Election commissioner of Bangladesh

On 27 October 2016, the VIF invited Brigadier General Muhammad Sakhawat Hussain ndc, psc (Retd), former Election Commissioner of Bangladesh (2007-2012), for a talk on ‘Electoral Governance in Bangladesh’, followed by an interactive session. With ....

November 02, 2016 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Featured , Interaction , Indo-Bangladesh relations , Sakhawat Hussain , Bangladesh Election
उत्तर-दक्षिण पारगमन गलियारा
Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

पारगमन गलियारे (ट्रांजिट कॉरिडॉर) ईरान की भौगोलिक स्थिति और भारत के साथ उसकी निकटता रूस तथा ....

November 02, 2016 Economic Studies
Terrorism was a Bonafide Agenda
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Prime Minister Modi’s blistering attacks against Pakistan on its terrorist affiliations on the occasion of the BRICS and BIMSTEC summits have been viewed as excessive by some in India. The various points of criticism are that by focusing so much on....

October 28, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , Pakistan , China , Terrorism , BRICS , Goa , Summit , agenda
ISIS and Radicalization in the Central Asian Republics
Navroz Singh

The pristine Hanafi school of Islam that prevails in the Central Asia is under severe threat of being displaced by a highly intolerant and violent version of Islam adopted by the likes of the IS. Increasingly marked by poverty and radicalization, the....

October 28, 2016 Terrorism , Central Asia , Islam , radicalization , ISIS , Radicalization of Women
भारत वियतनाम रिश्ते में अद्यतन स्थित
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

एशिया प्रशांत क्षेत्र में स्थित वियतनाम भारत का एक घनिष्ट मित्र राष्ट्र है। चीन, वियतनाम और भा�....

October 28, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific
Uzbekistan after Islam Karimov
Navroz Singh

The President’s Legacy After a week of intense speculation, dawn break on the 2nd of September 2016 coincided with the Uzbek state media finally declaring the death of the country’s first and only president, Islam Karimov. Al....

October 27, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , economic reforms , Uzbekistan , election , Karimov , succession , Mirziyoev
Rising Trend of Religious Radicalization in Bangladesh

Bangladesh, world's third largest Muslim majority nation has, right from its independence, cherished and followed the cardinal democratic values of freedom, equality, justice and religious tolerance. These, in a major way, also played a pivotal role ....

October 27, 2016 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Terrorism , radicalization , Muslim majority
The Seventh Xiangshan Forum
Lt General R K Sawhney, PVSM, AVSM, Centre Head & Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic Studies & Internal Security Studies, VIF

The Trend of Confabulations The Seventh ‘Xiangshan’ (literal meaning ‘Fragrant Hills’) Conference was held from 10 to 12 October 2016 at the Haidian District of Xiangshan near Beijing. The Xiangshan Forum is co-sponsored by China A....

October 26, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , South China Sea , Xiangshan Forum , Asia Pacific , regional security architecture , Gen Sawhney
ब्राजील, रूस, भारत, चीन और दक्षिण अफ्रीका (ब्रिक्स) समूहीकरणः कुछ विचार
Amb Kanwal Sibal

15/16 अक्टूबर को गोवा में ब्रिक्स शिखर सम्मेलन की पूर्व संध्या पर संभावित बल और समूह के अंतर्निहित....

October 25, 2016 Economic Studies
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