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Europe Might be more Vulnerable than Most to Omicron
November 30 , 2021 Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran
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At 8:19 PM, on another day of incessant drizzle in Chennai, I clicked on Bloomberg.com only to see the following headlines captioned boldly on the landing page:

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Covid , ECB , Eurozone , Germany , Omicron

India 1989-2014 and after — a paradigm shift
November 30 , 2021 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Article Views: 6889
Why China, why not India?” is a question debated in India without a credible answer. Asking an identical question, “Why China flew, India just grew?” Forbes magazine (2019) answered that it was because ...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : COP26 , COVID Challenge , COVID-19 , G20 , G7-plus , India vaccine , modi , paradigm shift

EU-Central Asia Relations: An Emerging Partnership
November 29 , 2021 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 6958
On November 5, European Union (EU) leaders met with prime minister-level Central Asian representatives in Bishkek for the inaugural EU-Central Asia Economic Forum. The delegation from the EU was led by ...

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Tags : Afghanistan , Business climate , Civil Society , Digitization , Economic Forum , Energy Exports , European Union , Green Recovery , Hydrocarbons , Tajikistan , Taliban , Uzbekistan

ग्लासगो सम्मेलन और भारत का ऊर्जा संक्रमण
November 29 , 2021 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 4543
संयुक्त राष्ट्र महासचिव एंटोनियो गुटेरेस ने संयुक्त राष्ट्र महासभा को संबोधित करते हुए जलवायु परिवर्तन के मुद्दे पर अंतर सरकारी पैनल की रिपोर्ट के निष्कर्षों को 'मानवता के लिए कोड रेड' के रूप में वर्णित...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , भारत। परमाणु ऊर्जा। शुद्ध शून्य। कॉप26। नवीकरण ऊर्जा।

A Critical Assessment of the Quad from an Indian Perspective
November 26 , 2021 Amruta Karambelkar
Commentary Views: 5849
Few foreign policy matters generate opinions as polarising as over the Quad. The prime point of difference is over what the Quad ought to do, and whether it should be militarised or not. These concerns...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Australia , Critical Technology , Cyber-security , India , Indo-Pacific , Japan , QUAD , US

Maritime Security in the IOR : Counterpiracy and the India-Australia Maritime Cooperation
November 25 , 2021 Anushka Saxena
Article Views: 9810
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is significant for a number of reasons. To begin with, it serves as the global hotspot for naval trade and for maintaining sea-based lines of communications. It houses chok...

Indian Ocean Region, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Counterpiracy , Drones , Gulf of Aden , India-Australia relations

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