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Jammu & Kashmir- On the Path to Nowhere: Review of Security and Political Developments
May 18 , 2017 C D Sahay
Views: 6347
From security perspective, the events in Jammu & Kashmir during the year 2016 and in the first four months of the current year, present an extremely confusing, disturbing and challenging scenario. T...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir

The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
May 18 , 2017 Jayadeva Ranade
Views: 7581
The upcoming 19th Congress of the nearly 88-million strong Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is important not only for Xi Jinping and China, but potentially for China’s neighbours and the world. It will con...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China , Chinese Communist Party

Kazakhstan: Emerging Player on the World Stage
May 17 , 2017 Dr Rashmini Koparkar
Views: 6225
Kazakhstan has assumed non-permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the tenure of 2017-18. It is the first Central Asian Republic (CAR) to join this supreme body. Kazakhst...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Central Asia , Emerging Player , Eurasian Economic Union , Kazakhstan , UNSC

मानव ढाल: कश्मीर में सेना के युवा अधिकारियों के सामने रोज़ रहती हैं असामान्य परिस्थितियां
May 17 , 2017 Brig Gurmeet Kanwal
Views: 4035
बडगाम की घटना को सही संदर्भ में देखा जाना चाहिए। किसी बंधक को मानव ढाल की तरह इस्तेमाल करना न तो सेना की सामान्य कार्रवाई का हिस्सा है और न ही इसे कभी बढ़ावा दिए जाने या दोहराए जाने की संभावना है। किंतु ...

Media Studies

Tags : Hindi , कश्मीर घाटी , खूनखराबे , चुनौतीपूर्ण परिस्थिति

Secularists are Discredited, Secularism is Alive and Kicking
May 17 , 2017 Rajesh Singh
Views: 68

Tags : Policies & Perspectives

Stoke the Indigenous Fire - A Way Ahead for Army Air Defence
May 15 , 2017 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Views: 4735
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National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Air defence , Indigenisation , modernisation

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