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War Against Daesh (ISIS) – An Assessment of Mosul Campaign
November 13 , 2016 Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam
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After having crushed the concept of the Caliphate little over 90 years ago by Kemal Ataturk, the first president of the modern-day Turkey, a renewed effort was made by a newly-founded Sunni militant gro...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Al Baghdadi , Alvite Singh , Daesh , Iraq , IS , ISIS , Kemal Ataturk , Mosul , Mosul Campaign , Peshmerga

भारत की पहले ही कार्रवाई एवं प्रतिकार (पीएईआर) करने की नई रणनीति
November 11 , 2016 Ashish Sirsikar
Views: 3739
भारत के हालिया लक्षित हमलों (सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक) को कुछ लोग प्रतिकार तथा उड़ी हमलों का बदला लेना मानते हैं। इसमें कुछ सच तो है, लेकिन यही पूरा सच नहीं है। भारत ‘हजारों घावों’ के जरिये उसे तकलीफ देने की पाक...

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : escalation , Hindi , Kashmir , military options , Pakistan , response , surgical strike , Uri , उड़ी , पीएईआर , भारत , सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक

Keep The Armed Forces Out of Politics!
November 10 , 2016 Commodore Gopal Suri
Views: 4509
The Indian Armed Forces have fought and won four wars against our Western neighbor, a state where the country does not have an army but the Army has a country. Despite these obvious victories, the India...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Armed forces , Honour , morale , political misrepresentation , Politics

Realizing the ‘Make Defence Equipment in India’ Dream by First Nurturing in-house Human Resources
November 10 , 2016 Lalit Joshi
Views: 3981
Introduction

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Defence acquisitions , human resource management , procurement expertise , Procurement procedure

Modi’s daring War on Bribery and Black Money
November 9 , 2016 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Views: 6414
The stunning announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that from midnight of November 8, 2016, the presently circulating currency notes of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 denominations will cease to be legal tend...

Economic Studies

Tags : Black Money , economy , Gurumurthy , hawala , Indian Curencey , modi , Prime Minister Narendra Modi , Rs 1000 , Rs 500 , surgical strike

Media’s Role in Covering Anti-Terror Operations
November 8 , 2016 Rajesh Singh
Views: 2949
There has been a flurry of opinions and views in recent days in the media, both mainstream and social, on a ‘looming threat’ to the freedom of the Press in the country.

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Anti-Terror Operations , Policies & Perspectives

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