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AIIMS Cyber-Incident— An ‘e-epidemic’ Situation for Digital Bharat
December 12 , 2022 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF
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तावद्भयेषु भेतव्यं यावद्भयमनागतम् । आगतं तु भयं वीक्ष्य प्रहर्तव्यमशङ्कया ॥ “A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you, but once it has come upon you, try to get rid of it without hesit...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Cyber Security

Tags : AIIMS , AIIMS Delhi , Bharat , China , CNI , crypto currency , Crypto virology , Cyber Incident , Cyber Security , India , Malware , OCG , Personal data , Ransom ware

Foreign Secretary’s Visit to Myanmar: Border Security Gets Foremost Priority
December 9 , 2022 Dr Cchavi Vasisht
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The latest visit by the Indian Foreign Secretary, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, to Myanmar on 20-21 November 2022[1] brings back attention to India’s foremost priority, which is border management and security in ...

Myanmar, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : bilateral Relations , Borders , China-Myanmar , Drugs , India-Myanmar , Insurgency in NE , military coup Whats happening in Myanmar , Myanmar-Pakistan

India’s Healthcare Diplomacy with Africa reflects Southern Solidarity
December 8 , 2022 Samir Bhattacharya
Article Views: 7418
The tiny African nation Gambia has recently been in the news due to the unfortunate deaths of 70 children from July to September, reportedly connected to four paediatric cough syrups made in India.[1]In...

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Adama Barrow , Gambia , India Africa , India Gambia Relations , Maiden Pharmaceuticals , Pharmaceutical

Russia’s Ukraine War and the Concept of Balance of Power since Congress of Vienna
December 7 , 2022 Abhishek Das
Article Views: 8670
Prologue
From Congress of Vienna to the beginning of the First World War; Europe survived for nearly a century without a major war like the one it saw ended with the Battle of Waterloo or the one it would see starting in 1914.

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : balance of power , Cold War , Crimea , Great Wars , NATO , Russia , Ukraine

A Quiet Revolution in the Making
December 6 , 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 5781
The RFP and Beyond
On 07 Sept 2022, a Request for Technical and Commercial Proposal (RFP) was issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on behalf of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the design and developmentof 5 lakh secure microchips, 50,000 of which were to be absorbed in the armed forces.

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Bharat Secure Chips , BSC 1 , BSC 2 , Indian microchip industry

Why Securing the Information Domain has become an Urgent Necessity for India?
December 5 , 2022 Tejusvi Shukla
Commentary Views: 6051
A Special Meeting of the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) was conducted in India in October this year. It was led by the External Affairs Minister, Dr S. Jaishankar, on India’s be...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Counter-Terrorism Committee , Influence Operations , Information Warfare , Jamaat-e-Islami , Kashmir , Militancy , Pakistan , Social Media , Terrorism , United Nations

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