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Key to Conflict Management in Kashmir is People, Politics and Perception
November 6 , 2017 Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)
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Violence is a type of backwardness and it is enormously powerful tool to coerce the communally fractured population to revolt against the state. But sustaining the uprising would need psychological ment...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir

Tags : 360 , hybrid war , India , Jammu , Kashmir , Kashmiri culture , Pakistan , Pakistan strategies

Commentary - J&K: Special Representative’s Road Ahead will not be Easy
November 4 , 2017 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Commentary Views: 5590
Appointment of Mr Dineshwar Sharma , former Director of Intelligence Bureau (DIB), as special ‘Representative’(SR) by the government for Kashmir to interact with the wide cross section of society in Ka...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir

Tags : Ajit Dovl , Dineshwar_Sharma , Home Minister , IB , Intelligence Bureau , J&K special Representative , Kashmir dialogue , Rajnath Singh

Changing Contours of Air Threat and its Implications in our Scenario
November 3 , 2017 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Views: 7684
“Air power may either end war or end civilisation”.1 - Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 1933 Since the raison d’etre for the existence of air defence, be it on land, sea or in the air, is to counte...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Air defence , Air Threat , Indian Air Force

क्या केवल हिन्दू या मुस्लिम शब्द हटाने से केन्द्रीय विश्वविद्यालय की कार्य प्रणाली में सुधार आ सकता है
November 3 , 2017 कर्नल शिवदान सिंह
Views: 4252
आज मीडिया में खबर आयी कि देश में उच्च शिक्षा को नियंत्रित करने के लिए गठित की गयी शीर्षतम संस्था यूनिवर्सिटी ग्रांट कमीशन ने केन्द्र सरकार के मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्रालय को सिफारिश भेजी है कि अलीगढ़ मुस्ल...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : BJP , Delhi University , DU , Hindi , Hindu , India , Muslim , NSUI , कार्यशैली सुधार. Education , केन्द्रीय विश्वविद्यालय

Commentary - What the Election Results Mean for Japan?
November 1 , 2017 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 5007
The Lower House Elections held in Japan on October 22 have given a resounding mandate to Prime Minister (PM) Shinzo Abe to remain in office till 2021. Abe, the third longest-serving PM of the post-war e...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Abenomics , Japan Elections

चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी के 19वें अधिवेशन से कितनी उम्मीद?
October 31 , 2017 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Views: 3257
पेइचिंग में 18 अक्टूबर, 2017 को होने वाले चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी के अधिवेशन (कांग्रेस) में राष्ट्रपति शी चिनफिंग को माओ और तेंग जैसे महान चीनी नेताओं की श्रेणी (हॉल ऑफ फेम) में रखा जाना तय है। चीनी कम्य...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी अधिवेशन , नेतृत्व परिवर्तन , शी चिनफिंग

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