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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

India-­Sri Lanka Cooperation in Joint Sea Exploration
November 26 , 2015 (VIF-Pathfinder joint paper)
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Sri Lanka, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : India-­Sri Lanka , Indian Ocean , Joint Sea Exploration

Multi-Vector Foreign Policy of Vietnam and Cooperation with China
November 24 , 2015 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
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The end of cold war in 1991 and dawn of a new era in the global politics also had its concomitant impact on Vietnam and its approaches to foreign policy. While the earlier decades witnessed a series of ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China - Veitnam , foreign policy

Third Anniversary of Xi’s China Dream
November 24 , 2015 Ashish Sirsikar
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"Everyone is talking about a China Dream. I believe the revival of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the nation since modern times"1 – Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CCP, 29 November 2012

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Bihar results will not impact Foreign Policy
November 19 , 2015 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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While the impact of the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral debacle in Bihar and the public rift between the party's "veterans" and the current leadership on the course of domestic politics is uncertain,...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Bihar Election , foreign policy , India

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Internal Security Monitor
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Speaking at the annual conference State Police Chiefs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again expressed concern at the...

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OVERVIEW The African Continent witnessed significant developments over the past two weeks. The continent continued to...

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VIF Cyber Review
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Science and Technology (S&T) Digest (1-15 November 2024), Issue 49

In this Issue I. Defence and Security DRDO Completes Flight Tests of Guided Pinaka Weapon System Maiden Flight-Test of...

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India-US Relations How India-US relations could change after the 2024 elections This year the US and India are both holding...

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