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COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 6, 2020
May 6 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3405
Joe Biden’s advantage over President Donald Trump in popular support has eroded in recent weeks as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee struggles for visibility with voters during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on May 05.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Afghanistan , Aramco , COVID-19 , Daily scan , Dubai , Europe , Hong Kong , Investment funds , Joe Biden , Money Laundering , Oil , Phase 2 talks , South China Sea , Trade Deficit , Transportation

The Maoists, Violence, and their ‘Alternate Revolutionary Programme’
May 6 , 2020 Dr Uddipan Mukherjee
Article Views: 6896
As human beings distance away from each other to deny the corona virus any additional mass and volume, the left-wing insurgents in India's dense jungles converge into south Bastar in central India from neighbouring provinces as well as from Nepal1:

National Security and Strategic Studies, Leftwing Extremism

Tags : Charu Mazumdar , CPI (M) , dictatorship of the proletariat , ideology , Lenin , Mao Tse-tung , Maoists , Marx , New Democratic State , Violence

Fragile Unity Government in Israel
May 5 , 2020 Dr Hirak Jyoti Das
Article Views: 4417
On 20 April 2020, the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud Party signed an agreement to form unity government with Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan Party ending the yearlong political deadlock and averting the possibility of fourth election.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : COVID-19; Likud; Kahol Lavan; MIddle East Peace Process; Annexation plan; Illegal settlements

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 5, 2020
May 5 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3493
Among the clichéd role stereotypes, is that women are more responsible for children and the household, and perhaps care for older family members as well. According to UNICEF, women across the world did three times as much unpaid care work as men even before the current crisis.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Belt and Road Initiative , European Commission , Indian Diaspora in Gulf , RBI , Riyal , Taiwan , US Treasury , Wall Street , Women , WTO

Biological Security: An Imperative for Indo-US Partnership
May 5 , 2020 Gaurav Kumar
Article Views: 4408
The conventional understanding of the term security-both traditional and non-traditional is heavily influenced by the state-centric approach. The proponents of various security policies use concept of security that has military dimension to it- defensive, offensive or preemptive in nature aimed to preserve sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state against adversarial state and non-state actors.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Biological security , Coronavirus , Healthcare , India-US Cooperation , Lessons , Vaccine action programme

कोरोनावायरस ने भारत में परिवर्तन को गति दे दी है
May 5 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 3910
जब से भारत में लॉकडाउन की शुरुआत हुई है, तब से सर्वाधिक रूप से कोरोनावायरस चर्चा के केंद्र में रहा है, चाहे वह टीवी हो, इंटरनेट हो या घर की बातचीत हो तरफ इसपर चर्चा हो रही है। निराशावाद और भ्रम की स्थित...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Hindi , आर्थिक परिवर्तन , कोरोनावायरस , भारत , महामारी , लॉकडाउन

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