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A Perspective on Defence Budget 2023-24
February 13 , 2023 Amit Cowshish
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At Rs 5,93,538, the overall defence budget for the financial year (FY) 2023-24 is one of the largest constituents of the union budget, trailing behind interest payments (Rs 10,79,971 crore) and capital ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Air Force , Army , Border Roads Organisation , Capital expenditure , Defence budget , DRDO , GDP , revenue

Assessment of the Nepal Elections 2022
February 13 , 2023 Aarushi Gupta
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The year 2022 witnessed elections at all three levels of government in Nepal. These were the second elections held at each level since the Nepalese Constitution that was enacted in the year 2015. Nepal ...

Nepal, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : CPN-UML , local elections , Maoist Centre , Nepal , Nepal elections , Nepal politics , Nepali Congress , Prachanda , RSP

How Ayurveda can Power the Development of a Global Health Culture
February 10 , 2023 Dr. P Ram Manohar
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The Global Burden of Disease Study reveals that people live longer but with more diseases. The global burden of disease is shifting from infectious diseases to non-communicable diseases; chronic conditi...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Ayurveda , AYUSH , biodiversity , dharma , Environment , G20 , health , Nature , SDGs

India’s Global Leadership: Revamped Agenda and Reformed Multilateralism Impacting Emerging World Order
February 10 , 2023 Prof (Dr) Debasis Bhattacharya
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India’s ascendancy as UNSecurity Council President in December 2022 for the second time in a span of only fifteen months remarkably reflect its growing global recognition as a formidable and credible po...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Multilateralism , NATO , Russia-Ukraine War , UN Security Council , World Order

Challenge before Indonesia as ASEAN Chair to Deal with Myanmar Issue
February 9 , 2023 Prof Rajaram Panda
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Indonesia assumed the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) after in 2023 and hosted its first major meeting of the group’s Foreign Ministers at the ASEAN Secretariat on 3 F...

Myanmar, International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : ASEAN , military Junta , Six-Point Consensus , strategic relevance , Tatmadaw , Tourism conference

Peshawar Mosque Attack: “Snake Bites its Snake Charmer”
February 8 , 2023 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF
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कर्म प्रधान विश्व रचि राखा। जो जस करहि सो तस फल चाखा।। (translation: Deeds are of supreme importance in this universe. Whatever a person does, he is punished or rewarded accordingly) - A verse from “Ra...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Afghanistan , Al Qaida , Bharat , Extremism , India , ISI Terrorism , ISIS , Islamic State , Islamic Terror , JuA , Pakistan , Taliban , TTP

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