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Colombo Port City Project and Indian Concerns
June 11 , 2021 Dr Sreeradha Datta
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India and Sri Lanka as two immediate neighbours enjoy broad sustained bilateral ties. Over the two thousand years of coexistence, whole range of issues have dominated the bilateral ties many arising ou...

Sri Lanka, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : China , Investments , Port , security concerns , Sri Lanka

US-India Partnership: Crisis Management in the Pandemic Era and Future of the Relationship
June 10 , 2021 K P Vijayalakshmi
Article Views: 7187
It is widely accepted that India and the United States have transformed their relationship in the post Cold War era. In the years from the Clinton administration, both US and India found increasing cong...

US, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Biden , COVID-19 , Defence production Act , Indian Diaspora , Indo-US Vaccine Action Programme , UN Forums , Vaccine Alliance , WHO , WTO

Nepalese Budget 2021-22: Whiter Madhesh?
June 10 , 2021 Prof Hari Bansh Jha
Commentary Views: 4920
As the parliament in Nepal was dissolved by President Bidya Devi Bhandari on May 22 to pave the way for the mid-term elections in November, a week later, on May 29, in a televised address Finance Minis...

Nepal, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Budget , COVID-19 , Nepal , Terai

महामारी के समय राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण को क्रियाशील करने की जरूरत
June 9 , 2021 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 6146
भारत इस समय अभूतपूर्व स्तर पर स्वास्थ्य आपात स्थिति का सामना कर रहा है। कोविड -19 महामारी अब तक 250,000 से अधिक लोगों की जिंदगियों को निगल चुकी है और भारत में 2.4 करोड़ से अधिक लोग इससे संक्रमित हुए हैं...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Disaster Management

Tags : COVID-19 , DDMA , Hindi , MHA , NDMA , SDMA , आपदा प्रबंधन अधिनियम

A Case for Tokyo Olympics Cancellation
June 9 , 2021 Prof Rajaram Panda
Article Views: 4137
At the time of writing, the Tokyo Olympics are on but there is a strong case for its cancellation in view of the extraordinary situation before it is too late as lives are at stake. The ferocity of the ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Coronavirus , IOA , Kosuke Takahashi , Pandemic , Seiko Hashimoto , Sir Keith Mills , super-spreader , Taro Kono , Thomas Bach , Tokyo Olympics , Yoshihide Suga

Left-Wing Extremism: Contained but Continues to Exist
June 8 , 2021 Tejusvi Shukla
Article Views: 7584
Based on an intelligence input on the night of 02 April 2021, over 2000 security forces’ (SFs) personnel carried out a major anti-Naxal operation in the Sukma-Bijapur area in Chhattisgarh. However, the ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Leftwing Extremism

Tags : Abhujmad , Bastar , Inequality , insurgency , Internal Security , Maoism , national security , Naxalism , poverty , Red Terror , Tribal , Urban Naxals

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