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Sheikh Hasina India visit: Reiteration of Tested Ties
September 5 , 2022 Dr Sreeradha Datta
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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is arriving in India today (5 September 2022) on a 4 day visit. A much anticipated reciprocal visit possibly also a last one before Bangladesh holds its 12th Jat...

Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : bilateral , India , Regionalism , Sheikh Hasina , South Asia

Emerging Synthetic Drug Market in the Bay of Bengal A Case Study of Amphetamine-Type Substances
September 5 , 2022 Shivanshi Bhadouria
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Introduction Countries surrounding the Bay of Bengal include India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar; besides there are two landlocked countries – Nepal and Bhutan. These countries depend on the Bay of...

Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : drug cartel in South Asia , drug control measures , drug market in Bay of Bengal region , drug politics , illegal drug and arms connection , synthetic drug contraband trade

The man who brought down the Iron Curtain
September 2 , 2022 Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has frequently been quoted as saying that the breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical disaster of the twentieth century. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last P...

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : mikhail gorbachev , nobel peace prize , Soviet Union , Vladimir Putin , warsaw pact

Belarusian Dynamics in the Context of Russia-Ukraine Crisis
September 2 , 2022 Varuna Shankar
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Introduction
Belarus is a European nation with a population of 10million and runs a 1000km long southern border with Ukraine. The political character of the government is a unitary presidential constitutional republic with capital at Minsk.

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Belarus , Elections Economic relations , Lukashenka , Protest , Putin

Pelosi’s visit: Who Won? An after Review
September 1 , 2022 Gunjan Singh
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United States’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan can be regarded as one of the most surprising events in the international politics. The last visit by a United States speaker to Taiwan was 25...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China-Taiwan relations , China-US relations , Chinese Communist Party , Chinese Domestic Politics , One China Principle , Pelosi's visit to Taiwan , Taiwan , Tsai Ing-wen , United States , Xi Jinping

A Way out from the Dangers of Nuclear Leakage and Fallout from Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant
September 1 , 2022 Gautam Sen
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Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in south-eastern Ukraine is in the crosshairs of the Russia-Ukraine conflict since March this year. The power station, largest in Europe and one of the three presently...

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Fall Out , nuclear plant , Russia , Ukraine , UN

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