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Review of the 21st Valdai Discussion Club Meeting
November 14 , 2024 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
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In a wide ranging four hour long open and frank interaction with the participants of the Valdai Discussion Club (VDC) meeting held in Sochi on 07 Nov 2024, Putin touched upon a variety of issues ranging...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India , Non-west , Putin , Trump election , Ukraine War , Valdai Club

Air India Flight 182: A Tale of Canada's Pampering of Canadian Khalistani Terror
November 14 , 2024 Saudiptendu Ray, Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 777
Canada as a country is renowned for its maple forests producing sweet maple syrup, beaver dams built by hard-working beavers, good-looking actors with the name Ryan, the best view of Niagara Falls, and,...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Air India Flight 182 , Ajaib Singh Bagri , Babbar Khalsa , Canadian Khalistani Terrorist , Canadian Security Intelligence Service , Inderjit Singh Reyat , Montreal-Mirabel International Airport , Ripudaman Singh Malik. , Royal Canadian Mounted Police , Talwinder Singh Parmar

COP 29: Climate Finance to Take Centre Stage at the Annual Climate Conference
November 14 , 2024 Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 795
The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP 29) is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024. Dubbed as the “finance COP”, this conference will focus on climate finance, with the aim of a...

Climate Change

Tags : Accountability , Cimate finance , Climate action , Conflict , Fossil Fuel , Protection , resilience

Trump 2.0: Not a change, a paradigmatic shift
November 14 , 2024 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Article Views: 800
Trump or no Trump, the US economy seems to do what it will anyway. Why? Look at the fundamental strengths of the US as a nation. If Donald Trump’s narrow win shook the United States in 2016, the scale o...

US, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Donald Trump , Joe Bide , US market , WTO

The 21st Century: The Century of India and ASEAN - Modi’s Strategic Visit to Lao-PDR
November 14 , 2024 Dr Gautam Kumar Jha
Article Views: 765
Modi's two-day visit during the second week of October to attend the 21st India-ASEAN and the 19th East Asia summits in Lao PDR on the invitation of Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone marked India's comm...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Act East Policy , ASEAN , Brunei , India , Laos , Singapore

A New Era for Sri Lanka? The November Parliamentary Election
November 13 , 2024 Dr Anchita Borthakur, Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 799
Introduction
On September 21 this year Sri Lanka held its first presidential election after the Aragalaya protests amid significant political and economic challenges, marking a crucial moment in the country’s journey toward economic recovery and political stability.

Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Anura Kumara Dissanayake , Aragalaya , election , IMF , NPP , SJB , Sri Lanka , Sri Lanka Parliamentary Election , Sri Lanka Presidential Election , Tamil votes

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