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Commentary: From Football Icon to Liberia President - Can George Weah Lead Liberia?
January 31 , 2018 Dr Neha Sinha
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Liberia is a country in West Africa which is bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast with an area of 111,369 square kilometers and population of approximately 4.6 million people. It has a repub...

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Ivory Coast , Liberia , Liberia President , Sierra Leone , West Africa

Commentary: India’s Missile Arsenal - An Overview
January 31 , 2018 Brig Gurmeet Kanwal
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On January 18, 2018, the personnel of the Indian armed forces test-fired the 5,000-km-plus Agni-5 Interim Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM). The test, conducted from Kalam Island in the Bay of Bengal, achi...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Agni , ICBM , Indian missiles

Tripura and a North-Eastern Perspective
January 30 , 2018 Gautam Sen
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India`s north-east is a fascinating geo-political entity in the country`s internal context. The developments in the region, or rather the sub-region, has continued to have ramifications since the first ...

North-East Insurgency, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : administrative structure , developments , economy , National Congress , North-Eastern , Tripura , TTAADC , West Bengal

Containment Again: Will this be the Leitmotif of the ‘Quad’?
January 29 , 2018 Pinaki Bhattacharya
Views: 5011
Prologue

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Act East , Indo-Pacific , Quad Grouping

Commentary: Electoral Bonds – First Step to Cleanse the Electoral System
January 29 , 2018 Dr A Surya Prakash
Commentary Views: 5891
Indians take pride in the fact that they are citizens of the world’s largest democracy and that despite poverty, under-development and fairly high levels of illiteracy, the democratic spirit in well and...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Election spending , electoral bonds

Counsels from the Life of Swami Vivekananda for the Indian Youth
January 25 , 2018 Pravas Kumar Mishra
Views: 7539
Swami Vivekananda was a monk who travelled extensively in the most interior parts of India, which inevitably shaped his conscience about the uniqueness of Indian culture, spirituality and civilisation. ...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Bharat Mata , Indian values , Swami Vivekananda

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