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COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 27, 2020
April 27 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3761
Economic IMF, WTO Urge Caution on Export Restrictions

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Afghanistan , Arab World , China , Diplomats , Export Restrictions , Green Deal , Hydrochloroquine , IMF , Job loses , Job Market , Kim Jong Un , lockdown , Military Spending , National People’s Congress , Robots , Sanofi , South China Sea , Sudan , Tory Party , Tourism , UV light , WTO , Yemen , Zalmay Khalilzad

Drone Swarms: Bracing up with The New Threat
April 27 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 6673
(This article linked with a previous article titled, Drone Swarms - a Growing Lethality. Where is the world? Where are we? published on the VIF portal on 06 Apr 20201.While the said article highlighted ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Defence , Driven crafts , Drone swarms , Hypersonic weapons , Missiles , Swarm Threat

Coronavirus Speeded Pace of Change for India
April 25 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 4981
Since the lockdown started in India, all along the clock, there has been constant chatter on coronavirus, be it on TV, internet or conversations at home. There is a high degree of pessimism and confusio...

Economic Studies, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : agriculture , brussels Effect. , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , democracy , indian industry , innovation , online learning , Population , Supply chains , Telemedicine , wealth inequality

Experiments & Applications: S&T in Coronavirus Pandemic
April 25 , 2020 Radhika Daga
Article Views: 6695
Throughout the history of pandemics, technology has played its role in many ways in proliferating infectious diseases to a wider area. However, it’s the same science and technology (S&T) research an...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Antibody Test , artificial intelligence , Biotechnology , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , Epidemiology , Telemedicine

Ramzan Amidst Battle Against Coronavirus
April 24 , 2020 Soumya Awasthi
Article Views: 5190
One of the most potent weapons against combatting Covid-19 pandemic is the norm of social distancing. Social congregation is an anathema to the norm of social distancing.

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : COVID-19 , Deoband , India , Ramzan , Religious practices , Social distancing norms , World

Covid-19 - Africa the Next Battle Ground
April 24 , 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 4566
Covid 19 virus has pervaded the globe and, in the bargain, has hit the developed countries the most. While the struggle against it is on the war footing with experimenting leadership all around, another...

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Africa , Chinese narrative , COVID-19 , G-20 , IMF , India , WHO , World Bank

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