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Commentary: North Korea Takes Advantage of Flags of Convenience Regime
January 12 , 2018 Dr Vijay Sakhuja
Commentary Views: 6333
Amid high decibel ‘verbal exchanges’ between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over latter’s nuclear ambition, the United Nations Security Council announced on 22 December 20...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China , International shipping , North Korea , Regime , Russia , South Korea , UN sanctions , United Nations Security Council , US

Emerging India European Union Cooperation in Western Indian Ocean
January 11 , 2018 Commodore Somen Banerjee
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Donald Trump’s exhortation for European Union (EU) to do more for their own security, coupled with ‘Brexit’ has spurred the EU to review its security framework. This has been further convoluted by an as...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India – EU Cooperation , security cooperation , Western Indian Ocean

नेपाल: जुड़वां शहर का समझौता और जनकपुर एवं अयोध्या के बीच संपर्क
January 9 , 2018 Prof Hari Bansh Jha
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पृष्ठभूमि भारत और नेपाल के लोगों के बीच संबंध अनंत काल से बिना रुके चले आ रहे हैं। दुनिया में दूसरे कोई भी दो देश सामाजिक, सांस्कृतिक, धार्मिक, आर्थिक तथा राजनीतिक क्षेत्रों में एक दूसरे से इतने नहीं जु...

Nepal, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Ayodhya , Hindi , Hindu , India , Janakpur , Nepal , UP , जनकपुर-अयोध्या जुड़वां शहर , भारत-नेपाल संबंध

Obituary: A Tribute to Prof Baldev Raj (1947-2018)
January 8 , 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Views: 6729
Dr. Baldev Raj, Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, passed away in Pune on 7 January 2018 at the age of 71 after a massive heart attack. A recipient of Padma Shri award a...

Tags : Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research , National Institute of Advanced Studies , Padma Shri award , Prof Baldev Raj

Dawn of the Coalition Era in Indian Politics
January 5 , 2018 RNP Singh
Views: 25363
Parliamentary and presidential democracies in modern India can function only with the presence of political parties. Constitutionally, India is a quasi-federal structure with a parliamentary form of gov...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : BJP , Coalition governments , Congress , democracy , Era in Indian Politics , Lal Bahadur Shastri , modi , Parliament , regional politics , Sardar Patel

The Fascinating Journey of The Evolution of the Unmanned
January 5 , 2018 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Views: 5464
Ever since the arrival of the unmanned aerial systems (UAS) on the scene, the battlefield has never been the same. In that, on one hand the attackers are exploiting many of the combat capabilities of UA...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Historic evolution of UAV , Unmanned aerial systems

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