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India and SCO Summit at Bishkek and Beyond
June 24 , 2019 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
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India has completed two years as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), and therefore it would be useful to assess the worth and utility of being a member of such an organization....

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Indo-CARs relations , SCO leaders’ meeting , SCO Summit 2019

Pakistan: Another Judicial Crisis in the Making?
June 21 , 2019 Tilak Devasher
Article Views: 6204
In 2007 President Musharraf had tried to brow beat the then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Iftikhar Chaudhry to desist from hearing cases of ‘enforced disappearances’ in Balochistan. This had led to...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : case against Pakistan Supreme Court Judge , curb on judicial independence , Judicial crisis in Pakistan

जल-शक्ति
June 21 , 2019 Rajesh Singh
Article Views: 3337
जल-शक्ति नाम से सर्वथा नये मंत्रालय गठन प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी के नेतृत्व में दूसरी बार गठित सरकार के सर्वाधिक महत्त्वपूर्ण कामों में से एक है। दरअसल, यह पहल भारतीय जनता पार्टी (भाजपा) के चुनावी वाद...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Hindi , गंभीर पेयजल संकट , प्रदूषित जलापूर्ति , भाजपा के चुनावी वादे , स्वच्छ गंगा मिशन

Notes from the Sub-Continent
June 20 , 2019 Mayuri Mukherjee
Commentary Views: 2329
Bangladesh: Optimistic but Unrealistic Budget? On June 13, Bangladesh’s Awami League-government presented the country’s biggest-ever national budget, amounting to Tk 5,23,190 crore. However, most analys...

Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Bangladesh , Nepal’s regulating Hindu Guthis , Pakistan budgets , Sri Lanka-US agreement

The Universalism of Yoga
June 20 , 2019 Dr Arpita Mitra
Commentary Views: 2822
When 21 June was first declared as International Day of Yoga (IDY), it was accepted warmly by most countries of the world. However, in India, a small section of the intelligentsia was opposed to the ide...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : International Yoga Day , multi-religion Yoga , tradition of Yoga

What Explains the Appointment of Pakistan’s New ISI Chief?
June 20 , 2019 Prateek Joshi
Commentary Views: 4088
In a recent reshuffle of the Army top brass, Lt. Gen Asim Munir was replaced by Lt. Gen Faiz Hameed as the new chief the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The change comes barely eight months after Mun...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Pakistan domestic politics , Pakistan’s new spy chief , the ISI reshuffle

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