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EU Budget and Special Economic Package to Fight COVID-19
August 6 , 2020 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 3820
The EU adopted a Euro 1.074 trillion dollar budget for a seven-year budget cycle from 1921-27 last month. This was combined with a Euro 750 billion package to assist the Member States to recover from th...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : COVID-19 , EU Budget , European Parliament , Franco-German cooperation , Germany , Green Budget , India , R & D

Pursuit of ‘Peace’ brings some of the last Hindus and Sikhs of Afghanistan to India
August 5 , 2020 Dr Anwesha Ghosh
Article Views: 3983
On 26th July, 11 members of the Hindu and Sikh communities of Afghanistan reached New Delhi after being granted priority visas by the Indian Embassy in Kabul.1 In the light of decades of persecution and...

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Afghan Hindus and Sikhs , asylum seeker , peace and conflict , persecution , religious minority , the Citizenship (Amendment) Act- 2019

Assessing India’s Abrogation of article 370, and Kashmir’s Journey Ahead
August 5 , 2020 Abhinav Pandya
Article Views: 6725
On August 5th, 2019, Modi government nullified the article 370 and scrapped article 35 A, the backbone of article 370. It was indeed a historic moment for India as article 370, in essence, had become a ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Pakistan, Jammu & Kashmir

Tags : AQIS , Article 370 , governance , ISI , ISIS , Kashmir , Ladakh , Pakistan , Radicalisation , Turkey , United Jihad Council

सीमा पर चीन का ख़तरनाक रुख : चीन से हो गई चूक
August 5 , 2020 Air Marshal SS Soman (Retd.)
Article Views: 4351
पिछले दो महीनों से पूर्वी लद्दाख़ में भारतीय और चीनी सैनिक ख़तरनाक ढंग से आमने-सामने हुए हैं और इस वजह से उस सीमा पर कई बार हिंसक घटनाएँ हुई हैं। यह सैनिक तनातनी सीमा पर चीन के ख़तरनाक रुख के कारण पैदा ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Hindi , एअर पॉवर , एलएसी , गलवान घाटी , चीन , ताइवान , तिब्बत , लद्दाख , विस्तारवादी , शिजियांग

Press Freedom under Siege in Pakistan
August 4 , 2020 Dr Yatharth Kachiar
Article Views: 7045
On July 22, 2020, Pakistani senior journalist Matiullah Jan, known for his critical views of the country’s judiciary and military, was abducted and later released by unidentified persons in Islamabad. T...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Censorship , democracy , Human Rights , Hybrid regime , Imran Khan , Journalism , Media , military , Pakistan , Press Freedom

Has a Cold War Started between U.S. and China?
August 4 , 2020 Amb K P Fabian
Article Views: 11348
China-U.S. relations are deteriorating at a rapid pace and some scholars have wondered whether we are witnessing the beginnings of Cold War 2 between the two biggest economies? On 21st July 2020, the U...

China, US, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China , Cold War , COVID-19 , Globalisation , Hong Kong , Japan , Nixon , Taiwan , Trump , UN Security Council , US

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