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Japan’s Security Outlook and Growing India-Japan Friendship
December 30 , 2015 Lalit Joshi
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The summit and ministerial level meetings between Japan and India have taken place in right earnest and direction in the last decade. The successive meetings between Mr Shinjo Abe and Mr Modi now leave ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India-Japan , Japan

Story of the Chennai Flood Disaster of December 2015
December 29 , 2015 Anjana Singhwi
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An Eyewitness Account

Disaster Management

Tags : Chennai Flood , Disaster

Islamic State and the Western World: An American Perspective
December 29 , 2015 Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam
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The penetration of the influence of the Islamic State (IS) on the American soil has increasingly become visible over the past few months. That a few (even microscopic minority) citizens are supporting t...

Terrorism

Tags : ISIS , Islamic State , Western World

Prime Minister Modi in Russia: An upturn Inevitable
December 25 , 2015 Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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In 1986 the Army’s Staff College at Wellington, Nilgiris gave me my first recognition in professional writing by awarding me the Lentaigne Memorial Medal (named on the first Commandant, a legendary Brit...

International Relations and Diplomacy

India, Japan scale up their partnership
December 25 , 2015 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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The India-Japan relationship is acquiring increasing strategic importance. Japan’s economic partnership with India, although far below the actual potential of the relationship, has always been significa...

International Relations and Diplomacy

An UN Resolution on Syria : About Time
December 22 , 2015 Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Views: 2897
It is rare to see the international community coming together on any issue which threatens the collective security of the world at large. When Daesh emerged as the freshest scourge everyone knew that it...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Daesh , ISIS , Islamic State , Syria , UN Resulation

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