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Modi-Obama Meet in Paris: Taking stock of India-US Relations
December 9 , 2015 Dr Harinder Sekhon
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When Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama met in Paris on the sidelines of the crucial climate change conference, it was their sixth bilateral meeting in a little over one year, a ...

US, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Modi-Obama , US-India Relation , USA

From Buddhism to Bollywood - The Investment in Soft Power
December 8 , 2015 Uma Sudhindra
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As a gross generalisation, three factors shape the foreign policy of most countries: history, geography and capability. And each of these has decisively influenced Indian foreign policy, in different wa...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Bollywood , Buddhism , Soft Power

What to expect from Heart of Asia Conference
December 8 , 2015 Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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Few people are aware why Foreign Minister (FM) Sushma Swaraj is likely to be going to Islamabad on 9 Dec 2015. Indeed it’s a follow up to the Prime Minister’sbrief chat with Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistan P...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Asia Conference , Indo Pakistan , Pakistan

Military modernisation in China: its implications
December 7 , 2015 Jayadeva Ranade
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s public announcement downsizing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at the grand military parade on September 3, 2015, was a major event. It signalled that the final stages ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Military Affairs, Defence

Tags : China , military modernisation , PLA

Smart Cities- Meeting the Managerial and Policy Challenge of Urbanization in India
December 7 , 2015 Devyani Bhushan
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Fulfilling the commitment made in the election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to build- “100 new cities; enabled with the latest in technology and infrastructure - adhering to concepts li...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : AMRUT , India , Smart Cities , Urbanization

Malabar-2015: Towards collective security in the Indo-Pacific
December 4 , 2015 Dr Ramanand Garge
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The strategically significant Joint India-US Naval exercise MALABAR-2015, hosted by India between October 14 and 21, 2015, conducted in the Bay of Bengal, in many ways, illustrates the growing multi-fac...

Defence

Tags : India-US Naval Exercise , Indo-Pacific , Malabar

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