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Delivering on Agnipath's Promise: Creating Pathways within and Beyond Military Service
June 28 , 2024 Col (Dr) DPK Pillay
Article Views: 1897
India's approach to soldier recruitment has undergone significant transformations since the British Raj to adapt to changing security needs. Post-independence, India moved away from regional and caste-b...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Agnipath , Agniveers , Central Armed Police Forces , Integrated Manpower policies , Kargil Review Committee , lateral entry , skill development , younger military

Bangladesh at the Crossroads: Confronting the Realities of Climate Change
June 27 , 2024 Dr Anchita Borthakur, Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 1618
Introduction
The consequences of climate change are felt globally affecting millions of lives and threatening the future development of states, with developing countries facing the extreme implications/vulnerabilities.

Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Bangladesh , Climate adaptation , Climate Change , Climate Vulnerability , Drought , Environmental Governance , Flood , International cooperation , Sea Level Rise , sustainable development

June 26, 2024: Golden Jubilee of the Blackest Day
June 26 , 2024 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Article Views: 1304
Three generations of Indians who grew later remained illiterates about the very fact of Emergency and about how Constitution ceased to exist and autocracy was institutionalised by it.

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Constitution , Emergency , Indira Gandhi

Muizzu’s Unfavourable Diplomatic Moves
June 26 , 2024 Dr Sachin Tiwari
Commentary Views: 1439
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu’s warm relations with China has caught the attention of the public not only in India but also abroad. The recent advances by him to court China have come at the time o...

Maldives, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Belt and Road Initiative , China , democracy , India , Indian Ocean , Indo-Pacific , Maldives , Neighborhood

How Critical are the Critical Minerals for Central Asia?
June 25 , 2024 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 1514
Why are Critical Minerals Important?
Critical minerals, with their unique and irreplaceable properties, are vital to modern technologies, industries, and national security. Their designation as critical stems from these properties but also from the potential risks that any disruptions in their supply chain could pose

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : BRI , C5+1 , China , clean energy , critical minerals , Green energy , Rare Earth Minerals , US-Central Asia

To Redefine War in Indian Context is Mandatory
June 24 , 2024 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 1594
In 1942 Quincy Wright wrote in A Study of War, that to different people war may have different meanings. While Brittanica Encyclopaedia states that war, in the popular sense, is a conflict between polit...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : China , Clausewitz , Conflict , India , Kargil , Ladakh , NCW , PLA , Russia Ukraine war

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