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Terror Once Again Raises its Ugly Head in Sri Lanka
April 25 , 2019 C D Sahay
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After just about a decade of peace, on Easter Sunday morning (April 21, 2019), Sri Lanka was rudely shaken by a series of suicide bombing attacks, three of them targeting Church congregations in Colombo...

Sri Lanka, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Controlling radicalization in Islamic society , Sri Lanka terror attack

Jihadi Terror Enters Sri Lanka
April 25 , 2019 Abhinav Pandya
Article Views: 6165
Almost exactly ten years after the end of the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka, a horrendous wave of jihadi terrorism has made a terrifying re-entry. Eight near simultaneous bomb blasts were carried ...

Sri Lanka, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Global radicalization , Jihadi Islamism , Sri Lanka terrorism , Terrorism

The Arab Spring Reborn
April 25 , 2019 Amb K P Fabian
Commentary Views: 2800
When it was generally assumed that the Arab Spring that began by felling dictators one by one in 2011 (Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Muhammed Ghaddafi in Libya, followed by Ali Saleh in Y...

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : A new Arab Spring , Algeria and democracy , revolt in Algeria

5G - Deliberating the Pros and Cons
April 25 , 2019 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 5724
Major telecom companies of the world are working feverishly to roll-out 5G or 5th Generation technology based advanced wireless systems. This will increase the speed of data transmission, will have faster response time and allow larger number of devices to be connected.

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : 5G , Internet Security , IOT in India

A Tale of two UN Resolutions on Cyber-security
April 24 , 2019 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Commentary Views: 10155
In December 2018, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted two important resolutions: 73/271 on ‘Developments in the Field of Information And Telecommunications in The Context of International Security’; ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Cyber Security

Tags : Cyber-security , UN Resolution on cyber-space

Threats to Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
April 24 , 2019 Dr Yatharth Kachiar
Commentary Views: 3721
“Only the terrorist and the Taliban forbid education to the women. Only the terrorist and the Taliban threaten to pull out women’s fingernails for wearing nail polish….the fight against terrorism is als...

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Afghan women’s rights , Taliban talks , Talibani fanaticsm

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