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Drone Swarms -a Growing Lethality…. Where is the World? Where are We?
April 6 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
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The credit of using the unmanned platform for the first time goes to Austria, when in1849 it attacked the Italian city of Venice using unmanned balloons loaded with explosives1. Surely, the Austrian war...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Air defence , artificial intelligence , autonomous warfare , drone capabilities , Drone swarms , Kamikaze drone , UAV-X , weaponised drones

Covid-19 and Indian Economy
April 6 , 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 11031
Epidemic is inversely proportional to economic enterprise and growth in any country. Likewise, any pandemic has a penchant to puncture the global economic growth. Corona virus will lead to recession and...

Economic Studies, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : 2008 financial crisis , contraction of economy , Corona impact , Coronisation , Covid , Economic Intelligence Unit , GDP growth rate , IMF , PM CARES Fund , World Bank

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 6, 2020
April 6 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3125
Low crude prices are seriously threatening most oil-producing countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) who need higher oil prices to balance their budgets. Nigeria needs a breakeven price of $144 per barrel of Brent crude on average to balance its government balance this year

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : ASEAN diplomacy , Coronavirus Pandemic , coronavirus risks , COVID-19 , Daily scan , lockdown , MENA economies , oil price , OPEC emergency

COVID-19: Time to Focus on Illegal Trade in Wildlife
April 5 , 2020 Dr Vijay Sakhuja
Commentary Views: 3344
Scientists and experts are still uncertain about the source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19). Some of the possible suspected species connected with the virus are horseshoe bats that are known to host...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Bat , BIMSTEC , CITES , illegal wildlife trade , Pangolin

Notes from the Sub-continent: Responses to COVID-19
April 5 , 2020 Mayuri Mukherjee
Article Views: 3378
In this latest compilation of some of the big ideas being debated in the media across the Indian sub-continent, we look at the coverage of the coronavirus (CoVid-19) outbreak over these past two months....

Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Chinese model , Coronavirus , Coronimics , Covid 19 , Covid19 pandemic , Pandemic , Peace Process , South Asian solidarity

West Asia Roundup - March 2020
April 4 , 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Dr Hirak Jyoti Das
Article Views: 3348
COVID-19 Pandemic continued to cause havoc globally as well as in the Middle East where most of the returning or evacuated nationals as well as travellers from the infected countries carried the virus. Iran was the most infected country in the region with large scale casualties and infections.

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : COVID-19 crisis in Iran , COVID-19 pandemic , G20 Virtual Summit , PM Modi , Russia-Turkey agreement on Idlib , Tunisia Protests , Unity government in Israel , WHO

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