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Pakistan Federal Budget 2019-20 - Unrealistic Ambitions
July 11 , 2019 Prateek Joshi Riya Sinha
Commentary Views: 4074
Pakistan’s Federal Budget was unveiled on June 11, 2019, under the looming shadow of International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) conditionalities seeking to curb the consistently misused fiscal space as well as...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Pakistan budget , Pakistan’s fiscal distress

Trump’s visit to the DMZ: More Than Just Photo Optics?
July 11 , 2019 Dr Gunjan Singh
Commentary Views: 3395
Trump, in his impromptu diplomatic style, surprised the whole world when he tweeted an invitation to Kim to meet him at the Korean De-Militarized Zone (DMZ). The fact that Trump and Kim met on North Korean soil is a historic development.

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Korean peace , North Korea sanctions , Trump-Kim talks

Budget 2019: Indian diplomacy needed a shot in the arm but budget flatters to deceive
July 10 , 2019 Amb Anil Wadhwa, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 2161
Union Budget 2019 India: Analysis reveals some notable facts: the MEA budget, from being close to 0.1% of India’s GDP in 2012-13, declined to 0.08% in 2018-19.

VIF Scholars Outreach, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : India’s Act East Policy , MEA , Parliamentary Standing Committee , Union Budget 2019

Air Defence Cover for Mechanised Forces: The Bigger Picture
July 10 , 2019 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 5065
On 10 May 2019, it was reported in the media that India had finally selected the South Korean made Hanwha K 30 Biho (Flying Tiger), a highly mobile short range Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) weapon system, to protect its forward manoeuvre units.

Climate Change, Defence

More Needs to be Done to Revitalise Chabahar Project
July 10 , 2019 Gautam Sen
Commentary Views: 4081
The latest Govt. of India`s regular budget of 2019-20, has a meagre allocation of Rs. 45 crore for the development and operationalising of Chahbahar Port infrastructure under the Ministry of External Affairs line of credit to finance this programme, as compared to Rs. 150 crore last year.

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Chabahar Port , India-Iran relations , India’s access to Central Asia

India’s Lesser Known, yet Dangerous Maoist Groups
July 8 , 2019 Dr Uddipan Mukherjee
Article Views: 7591
The Maoist movement in India is known by the violent activities of the Communist Party of India-Maoist [CPI-M] – the organization which took shape in September 2004 with the merger of the People’s War Group based in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh and the Maoist Communist Centre of the eastern states of Bihar-Jharkhand

National Security and Strategic Studies, Leftwing Extremism

Tags : Maoist groups , Maoists in Manipur , North East insurgency

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