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Bangladesh Elections: Growing Influence of ‘Hefazat’
November 8 , 2018 Abhijit Chakravertty
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The announcement on October 26th at a party forum by Sheikh Hasina that the two foremost hard-line fundamentalist groups, viz. the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and the Hefazat-e-Islam(HeI), should be treated d...

Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Bangladesh elections , Bangladesh Islamist hard-line party

Imran Khan’s China visit: China’s Deafening Silence on Financial Bailout
November 6 , 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Commentary Views: 2587
Imran Khan ’s much anticipated China visit took place from 2 to 5 November 2018 in the backdrop of Pakistan's desperate requirement of a financial bailout due to mounting balance of payment crisis, the...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : CPEC woes , Imran Khan’s China visit , Pakistan’s financial state

West Asia Review, October, 2018
November 6 , 2018 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 2534
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) - Jamal Khashoggi Fiasco Saudi Arabia and its maverick Prince Mohammed Bin Salman called upon themselves the global criticism due to a botched up assassination of an insider-outsider critic in Khashoggi inside their Istanbul Consulate through the modus operandi and consequent conflicting statements on the issue.

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Khashoggi murder , Saudi Arabia , Syrian conflict

Iran, US Sanctions and Oil
November 6 , 2018 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 3865
US oil and banking sanctions against Iran have gone into effect on 4th November. President Trump announced that these are toughest ever sanctions imposed by the US. The date is symbolic. It is the anniversary of the take over of US Embassy in Tehran by students in 1979.

National Security and Strategic Studies, Energy Security, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Iran oil , US Sanctions

SAMVAD Series of Conferences - India and Japan Find a Common Language on Shared Values
November 3 , 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Commentary Views: 5716
Prime Minister Modi’s official visit to Japan in October 2018 has greatly cemented the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership. The two countries are building a relationship on common value...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Hinduism-Buddhism ideplogy , Indo-Japan cooperation , Samvad Conferences

Ethiopia Hosts the First African Forum on Cybercrime
November 2 , 2018 Dr Neha Sinha
Commentary Views: 6172
The African nations are facing the fastest growth rate in Internet penetration worldwide. The African Union has revealed that the digital connectivity in the continent has tripled in the last five years, and it is also expected that by 2020, nearly a third of the global Gross Domestic Product is expected to be generated by the digital economy

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : African Forum 2018 , Cybercrime

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