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Lockdown 2.0: Focus will shift to restarting the economy
April 16 , 2020 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
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With the Prime Minister’s announcement of the extension of the lockdown until May 3, 2020, anxieties about the depth and coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in India have deepened. The Prime Minister w...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Covid-19 vacacine , economy , Education System , global impact , Lockdown 2.0 , Migrant labourers , moobilising resources , post corona world , PPE , rebuilding

Vietnam as ASEAN Chair - Preparing for the Next Decade
April 16 , 2020 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Dr. Pankaj Jha
Commentary Views: 4035
The ASEAN under the Chairmanship of Vietnam has been preparing a draft for the mid-term review of the Overall Plan for the Implementation of the ASEAN Community Vision 2025. It is assessing the outcomes...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : ADDM + , ASEAN Community , ASEAN Vision 2025 , CLMV , COVID-19 , SDGs , Vietnam

COVID-19 in West Asia: Implications for India
April 15 , 2020 Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 4114
The COVID-19 crisis has reflected the significance of nation-state and national boundaries continue to remain the principle barrier to contain the transmission of the pandemic. The initial response in m...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China; Russia , COVID-19 , Indian migrants , Remittances , US

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 15, 2020
April 15 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3690
The Russian president and his US counterpart have held five conversations since March 30, more than in the whole of 2019, as they negotiated the largest ever co-ordinated cut in crude oil production in response to a collapse in demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Coronavirus Outbreak , COVID-19 , Daily scan , epidemic , GDP , IMF , Pandemic , WHO , World Economy

Covid-19 and India’s Maoists
April 15 , 2020 DR P V Ramana
Commentary Views: 6372
Even as the country is under a lockdown in the wake of COVID-19, also being referred to as novel Corona virus, alleged sympathisers of Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Maoists in shor...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Leftwing Extremism

Tags : COVID-19 , Expansion of bases , Recruitment , Relief from courts , Urban Maoists

Armed Forces in Aid to Civilian Authorities in COVID-19 environment
April 14 , 2020 Jaideep Chanda
Article Views: 5207
COVID-19 has tested healthcare and associated infrastructure of nations like nothing else before. There are precedents e.g. the Spanish Flu, but none on the scale of COVID-19. Under such a catastrophic ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Army , Assistance Civil authorities , CDS , COVID-19 , Force preservation , IAF , Indian Navy , logistics , Quarantine

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