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Stopping the Third World War
October 20 , 2022 Prof Hari Bansh Jha
Commentary Views: 5381
The noted scientist Albert Einstein was quite puzzled when he was asked about the horrifying and dreadful impact of the World War 3 (WW3).

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Albert Einstein , civilian infrastructure , peacebuilders , Russia , Ukraine , World war

Iran Protest and it's domestic and regional implications
October 20 , 2022 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Podcast Views: 4236
Amb. Anil Trugunayat, Distinguished Fellow at VIF dissects the core issues in recent protest in Iran and evaluates it's domestic and regional implications.

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Gender Justice , Gulf States , Islamic Republic of Iran , Mahsa Amini , US

The Changing Nature of ‘Collective Leadership’ in Xi’s China
October 19 , 2022 Anushka Saxena
Article Views: 6634
Right before the third plenum of the fifth National People’s Congress in 1980, Deng Xiaoping, former Chinese leader-in-charge made a speech ‘On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership’.[1...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : 20th Party Congress , CCP , collective leadership , Xi Jinping

Pakistan’s Invasion of Kashmir, UN Resolutions and POK
October 18 , 2022 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 7005
Pakistan had claimed in its written submission to the UN Security Council that it was not involved in the invasion of the state of J&K. However, Col. Akbar Khan, who planned and led the tribal invas...

Pakistan, Jammu & Kashmir, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Akbar Khan , demographic change , Gilgit-Baltistan , Kashmir , raiders

A Perspective on Kashmir Situation: Tunneled View and Wide-Angle Scan
October 17 , 2022 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.)
Article Views: 4812
Setting the Panorama
While India was in her biggest ‘festival mood’, the Home Minister was in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on a two-day visit to Rajouri and Baramulla. Since the announcement for this visit on 4th and 5th October 22 was made much in advance panorama scan’ of the region leading to the visit would be interesting.

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Home Minister’s Visit to Kashmir , J&K GSDP , Kashmir Central

A ‘Quiet’ Test with a ‘Big’ Impact
October 14 , 2022 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 7038
The brief news item about the successful test-fire of the indigenously developed Very Short Range Air Defence System (VSHORAD) by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) from the Int...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : DRDO , MANPADS , VSHORADS

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