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Decoding India-China Standoff at the LAC
May 28 , 2020 Lt Gen AS Bedi (Retd.)
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Recently, a distinguished author in an article in a prominent Indian newspaper while giving a detailed account of the India China border dispute has brought out some pertinent and relevant facts. Howeve...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Differing Perceptions , Galwan valley , LAC , Ladakh , Nakula , Sikkim

COVID-19: Visible Arrows, but Still in the Quiver
May 28 , 2020 Radhika Daga
Article Views: 4541
The pandemic outbreak has caught almost the entire global population on the hop. The rare retreat from the regular has sent the world in a tizzy. However, while this indefinite hiatus has put a halt on ...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Coronavirus , COVID-19 , Gene-Engineering , Microbiology , Vaccines

Math and effect of Modi package
May 28 , 2020 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Commentary Views: 4320
Its explicit intent is to provide for the deprived and disturbed through direct fiscal spend from the budget. The Modi stimulus package is in three parts — direct government spend, bank credit, and rate cut and lending by RBI to banks. Modi’s detractors damn the package saying the bank credit part of the package is large and the government share is insignificant.

Economic Studies, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : COVID-19 , Economic Package , G7 , GDP , Indian financial model , Modi package , RBI

Mission Aatmanirbhar Bharat: Decoding Self-Reliance and Charting the Road to Recovery
May 27 , 2020 Aarushi Suri
Article Views: 5918
This article is based on the inputs and views of notable experts from Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), expressed in a webinar organised by the VIF o...

Economic Studies, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Aatmanirbhar Bharat , economy , Infrastructure , Manufacturing , MSME , Reviving Growth , Self Reliance , Services

Perceptions, Policies and Narrative about China over COVID-19 from the Indo-Pacific
May 27 , 2020 Amruta Karambelkar
Article Views: 4114
As the initial shock from the COVID-19 pandemic recedes in the past few weeks, there has been a rising criticism of China from nearly all over the world. This piece would survey China’s policies and pop...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : ASEAN. , Australia , China , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , Indo-Pacific , Japan , QUAD , Singapore , Southeast Asia , US , Vietnam

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 27, 2020
May 27 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3546
Chinese scientists in recent days said they had ruled out both a laboratory and an animal market in the city of Wuhan as possible origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in their most detailed pushback to date against allegations from U.S. officials and others over what might have sparked it.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Afghanistan , Air Travel , Antibodies , Artemis Accords , Belt and Road Initiative , Daily scan , Fact-Check warning , French Auto Industry , Israel , Latin America , South China Sea

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