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India’s Growing FinTech Cooperation : Bridging Borders and Empowering Digital Economies

India has emerged as a leader in the Financial Technology (FinTech) innovation and growing acceptance of its digital payments mark an important milestone in the global expansion of India’s digital payment system. The cross-border digital transactio....

November 01, 2024 Technological and Scientific Studies , RBI , Digital India , Fintech , QR code , Global South , UPI , NPCI , Digital Payments , DPI , Digital Literacy , Fast Payments System , NIPL , RuPay Card , SWIFT System
Neighborhood News Digest- 30 October 2024

Afghanistan
Third Round of Qosh Tepa Canal Negotiations to be Held in Tashkent-Tolo News
Ismatullah Irgashev, Uzbekistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, announced that Tashkent and Kabul have jointly formed a commi....

October 30, 2024 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , China , economy , Maldives , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Uzbekistan , Bhutan , Saudi Arabia , Bangladesh , Awami League , Türkiye , interim Government , Qosh Tepa , 26 Amendment Act
Does India Need a Strategy of Strategies?
Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

As the India and China have finally reached a deal on patrolling their disputed frontier to end a four-year long military stand-off to pave way for resetting the political and business ties between the Asian giants, there is understandably a sudden s....

October 30, 2024 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India , China , IOR , Bhagavad Gita , Kautilya , Grand strategy , Raj Dharma , Tejastejasvinamaham
Science and Technology (S&T) Digest (1-15 October 2024), Issue 47

In this Issue

I. Defence and Security

  1. Flight-tests of 4th Generation Very Short Range Air Defence System
  2. ADITI 2.0 Challenges and DISC 12 Launched
  3. M....

    October 29, 2024 Defence industry , TSMC , Atmanirbhar Bharat , Digital economy , Science & Technology , Atomic Energy , EV , iDEX , Nuclear Power Plant , Space Startups , DPI , Air Defence System , Aerospace Industry , Analog Research , DigiLocker , Nuclear Submarines , Neuromorphic , Predator Drones , Silicon Photonics , Solar Panel , Space Labs
Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor(21-27 October 2024)

Economic

China Sets Date for Key Meeting at Center of Market’s Stimulus Hopes
China’s top lawmakers are set to meet early next month, a highly anticipated meeting markets view as a key window to announce more stimulus to ....

October 29, 2024 Israel , China , BRICS , TSMC , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Canton Fair , critical minerals , US Shale , Japan LDP , Kazan Declaration
Neighborhood News Digest- 29 October 2024

Afghanistan
Source: New Uzbekistan Envoy Arrives in Kabul-Tolo News
A source told TOLO news that Oybek Usmanov has arrived in Kabul as the new Uzbekistan ambassador and is expected to present his credentials to the prime minis....

October 29, 2024 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , economy , Maldives , Iran , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Uzbekistan , Bhutan , Bangladesh , IMF , WTO , interim Government , World Trade Organisation , Africa Asia Luminary Annual Conference.
Ganderbal Attack 2024: The Emergence of Pakistan-Sponsored TRF
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Commentary

Pakistan has been sponsoring terrorism in Bharat for over the past 30 years to undermine the stability of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (hereafter J&K) and other parts of the country. Post-nullification of Article 370 in 2019, J&K did....

October 29, 2024 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , Radicalisation , Terrorism , Islam , LeT , Bharat , TRF , Ganderbal
Welcome remarks by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF during the Vimarsh talk on ‘Global economic crisis: Implications for India’ by Dr. R. Vaidyanathan on Monday, 21 Oct 2024

Dr R Vaidyanathan, Sh S Gurumurthy Ji, Members of strategic community, Ladies and Gentlemen, It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to today’s Vimarsh talk by Dr R Vaidyanathan on a very interesting subject titled ‘Global economic cr....

October 28, 2024 Welcome remarks , Global economic crisis
Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor(14-20 October 2024)

Economic

UN report says 1.1 billion people living in acute poverty
More than one billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half of them in countries experiencing conflict, according to a new United Nations report. Coun....

October 28, 2024 Xi Jinping , BRICS , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Zelensky , Malaria , Prabowo Cabinet , Japan LDP , Yahya Sinwar
Cyber Review - September 2024

National

Star Health sues Telegram after a hacker used app’s chatbot to leak data
Bharat’s insurance company— Star Health has sued Telegram application and an unknown hacker who was using chatbots on the messaging app to....

October 28, 2024 India , China , Iran , Singapore , Scotland , U.S. , cybersecurity , Bharat , Cyber , VIF Cyber Review , Lenovo , Airtel , Deepfake , IRGC.
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