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Demonetization: Restoring Probity in public Life

The dramatic announcement by the Prime Minister on the 08-11-2016 regarding De-monetising Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes from the midnight of the same day has electrified the national mood and has altered the paradigm of public life. All black money is ....

November 14, 2016 Economic Studies , Black Money , Corruption , Rs 1000 , D-monetising , cash. rs 500 , Rs 2000 , Rs 100

War Against Daesh (ISIS) – An Assessment of Mosul Campaign

Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

After having crushed the concept of the Caliphate little over 90 years ago by Kemal Ataturk, the first president of the modern-day Turkey, a renewed effort was made by a newly-founded Sunni militant group, which, today, is known by the name Islamic S....

November 13, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Mosul , Iraq , Daesh , ISIS , IS , Al Baghdadi , Peshmerga , Mosul Campaign , Alvite Singh , Kemal Ataturk

भारत की पहले ही कार्रवाई एवं प्रतिकार (पीएईआर) करने की नई रणनीति

Ashish Sirsikar

भारत के हालिया लक्षित हमलों (सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक) को कुछ लोग प्रतिकार तथा उड़ी हमलों का बदला लेना मा....

November 11, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , Kashmir , भारत , surgical strike , Uri , escalation , military options , response , पीएईआर , सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक , उड़ी

Keep The Armed Forces Out of Politics!

Commodore Gopal Suri

The Indian Armed Forces have fought and won four wars against our Western neighbor, a state where the country does not have an army but the Army has a country. Despite these obvious victories, the Indian Armed Forces have never fallen prey to the wor....

November 10, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Politics , Armed forces , Honour , morale , political misrepresentation

Realizing the ‘Make Defence Equipment in India’ Dream by First Nurturing in-house Human Resources

Lalit Joshi

Introduction The Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2016 was unveiled by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in March this year incorporating most of the recommendations of the Committee of Experts (CoE) constituted by MoD for ‘Amendment to DP....

November 10, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Procurement procedure , Defence acquisitions , human resource management , procurement expertise

China’s Geography: A Boon or Bane?

Ashish Sirsikar

Strategic thinkers have maintained that geography play a key role in determining a nation's aspirations, goals and behaviour. Taking cue, the author in this paper has delved on China's geography and the courses that this factor might play in China's....

November 10, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Taiwan , China's geography , Island Chains , Eastern Region

Revisiting India's Disaster Response Mechanism: Challenges and Way Forward

One Day Round Table Conference (May 6, 2016) organised jointly by Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) & Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF)....

November 10, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , NDRF , India's Disaster Response , National Response Mechanism , State Response Mechanism

Modi’s daring War on Bribery and Black Money

S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

The stunning announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that from midnight of November 8, 2016, the presently circulating currency notes of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 denominations will cease to be legal tender is the boldest attack on the scourge of black....

November 09, 2016 Economic Studies , modi , economy , Black Money , Prime Minister Narendra Modi , Rs 1000 , Rs 500 , surgical strike , Indian Curencey , hawala , Gurumurthy

Joint RCSS-VIF-ITS Conference Emerging Strategic Dynamics in Indo-Pacific

The Colombo-based Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RSCC), in collaboration with Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) and Institute for Transnational Studies (ITS) of Germany, organised a two-day conference on 21-22 October 2016 in Colombo....

November 09, 2016 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , Featured , Conferences , Indo-Pacific , OBOR , European Union , United States , Southeast Asia , Emerging Strategic Dynamics

Media’s Role in Covering Anti-Terror Operations

Rajesh Singh

There has been a flurry of opinions and views in recent days in the media, both mainstream and social, on a ‘looming threat’ to the freedom of the Press in the country. The scare has been triggered by sections within the media and outside after t....

November 08, 2016 Governance and Political Studies , Policies & Perspectives , Anti-Terror Operations