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2013 To Be a Busy Year for Diplomacy
January 9 , 2013 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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The challenges to Indian foreign policy in 2013 will be largely those of 2012, as the year that has ended neither substantially added to nor subtracted from the gamut of issues facing the country. The I...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Developing India’s Indigenous Defence Technologies: The Case for Inducting Arjun Tanks
January 8 , 2013 Radhakrishna Rao
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A well–entrenched and powerful import lobby operating under the shadow of the political establishment in New Delhi has been silently but vigorously pursuing the strategy of nullifying every Indian effor...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Systemic Failure or Organ Failure?
January 8 , 2013 Dr M N Buch (late)
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The Chambers Twenty-first Dictionary, which is quite an authoritative lexicon, describes ‘system’ in the following words, “A set of inter-connected or inter-related parts forming a complex whole”. The w...

Governance and Political Studies

Mollycoddling Miandad is Tantamount to Legitimising Dawood Ibrahim
January 5 , 2013 Sushant Sareen
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Even while seething with anger over the news that the close relative of the international terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and former Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad had been given a visa to visit Delhi to wa...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

An Object Lesson in Government Incompetence
December 31 , 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)
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When salmon swim against all odds to reach their spawning grounds no obstruction can stop them. The huge number of rape cases now being reported in India reminds me of this annual migration of salmon. ...

Governance and Political Studies

Still Comrades after all these years
December 28 , 2012 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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Russia was the first country with which India established a strategic partnership in 2000 when Vladimir Putin became President and reversed the drift in ties under Boris Yeltsin when Moscow veered westw...

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

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Internal Security Monitor
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Internal Security Monitor, Vol 1, No 2

Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned potential victims against the ‘dangerous game’ of ‘digital arrest’. He said there was...

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OVERVIEW As the geopolitical landscape continues to evolve, the African continent is increasingly recognized for its...

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November 18, 2024
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Defence Indian Navy's First Training Squadron Leaves Bahrain INS Shardul Visits Dubai Indian Navy – Royal Navy of Oman...

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November 22, 2024
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VIF Cyber Review
November 26, 2024
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Global Developments And Analysis: Weekly Monitor
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Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (04-10 November 2024)

Economic China Unveils $1.4 Trillion Debt Swap, Saves Stimulus for Trump China gave indebted local governments a 10 trillion...

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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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US Insights
June 6, 2024
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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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November 7, 2024
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Marathi gets classical language status: Celebrations in literary world- The Times of India In a historic decision, Marathi,...

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