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COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 14, 2020
April 14 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 4000
The International Monetary Fund approved $500 million on April 13 to cancel six months of debt payments for 25 of the world's most impoverished countries so they can help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Coronavirus , Covid 19 , Daily scan , Face masks , G20 finance ministers , Government , IMF , lockdown , Pandemic

लॉकडाउन का पहला सप्ताह: आशा के बीच मिलेजुले परिणाम
April 14 , 2020 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 3775
चार-घंटे के नोटिस पर 3 सप्ताह के एक राष्ट्रव्यापी लॉकडाउन की घोषणा करने में साहस और दृढ़ विश्वास की आवश्यकता होती है। पीएम मोदी ने 24 मार्च को राष्ट्र के नाम अपने संबोधन के दौरान इन गुणों को पूर्ण रूप स...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Covid 19 , Economic Task Force , Hindi , lockdown , PM CARES Fund , लॉकडाउन का पहला सप्ताह

Post Tablighi Jamaat Fiasco - The Way Forward
April 13 , 2020 Soumya Awasthi
Article Views: 6561
Last one week has seen an exponential rise in N-COVID-19 cases, with the religious congregation of Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) followers at the Markaz in Delhi, acting as a significant trigger. It is appalling...

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : COVID-19 , Markaz , Super spreader , Tablighi Jamaat , Terrorism

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 13, 2020
April 13 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3434
The novel coronavirus is rampaging across the world, but its impact is not equal; it is hammering some populations, while leaving others relatively unscathed. One determining factor in morbidity and infection may be a 100-year-old tuberculosis vaccine.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Anti-China bills , ASEAN+3 Summit , Coronavirus research , COVID-19 , Daily scan , G20 , Gilead drug – NEJM , Global pandemic , TB Vaccine , US economy , World Bank

Islamic State Attack on Kabul Gurdwara Raises Several Questions
April 13 , 2020 Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 5147
Amid the ongoing global panic caused by Coronavirus (aka Covid-19), the Sikh and Hindu communities in Kabul were subjected to the mortifying experience of the killing of their loved ones, not from Covid...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

Tags : Afghanistan , Gurdwara Attack , India , IS-KP , ISKP , Islamic State , Kabul , Khurasan Khorasan , Pakistan

Global Impact of Covid-19 Crisis
April 12 , 2020 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 5184
Covid-19 is the first full-blown crisis of a hyper-connected world. It arose as the local outbreak in China at Wuhan city, and within a few weeks, it had spread all across the world. More than a million...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : capitalism , COVID-19 , economy , Global supply chains , Globalisation , Helpless West , IMF , Multilateralism , Non--traditional security , US-China rivalry

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