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Challenges in Reforms of DRDO
October 5 , 2023 Amit Cowshish
Article Views: 8187
The Government of India has set up a nine-member committee to revamp the Department of Defence Research and Development (DR&D) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) which, tho...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : DARPA , DRDO , MoD , R&D

The Indian Inclusion in JP Morgan GBI EM index
October 4 , 2023 Praveen Menon
Article Views: 5180
On September 2023, JP Morgan announced that it will include Indian government bonds to it’s emerging markets bond index. India will be included in the GBI-EM global diversified index starting June 28, 2...

Economic Studies

Tags : Bond market , GBIndex , Government Bonds , Government securities , Indian Economy , JP Morgan

Assessing Internal and External Factors Leading to Instability in Manipur
October 3 , 2023 Dr Cchavi Vasisht
Article Views: 6330
The violence and instability in Manipur started on 03 May, though the seeds of the same have been there for years. The figures may vary, but the latest reports by IGP Muivah states that around 175 peopl...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Drugs , Kukis and Meities , Manipur Violence , Military Coup , Scheduled Tribes

Gandhi: The Apostle of Non-Violence
October 1 , 2023 Rup Narayan Das
Commentary Views: 4785
Ever since 2007 when the United Nations adopted 2nd October, the birth day of Mahatma Gandhi regarded as the ‘Father of the Nation’ in India, and the torch bearer of India’s protracted freedom struggle,...

Governance and Political Studies, Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Gandhi , Martin Luther King , modi , Non-violence , UN resolution

Canada outburst dishonours code among spies
October 1 , 2023 Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 4044
It is well known that intelligence agencies of major countries have harboured dissident and insurgent groups from around the world. Values, scruples and morality are not words in the lexicon of intellig...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Canada , India-Canada row

United Nations in a World of Crises
September 29 , 2023 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 4962
The 78th session of the United Nations opened amidst a deepening sense of crisis.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : BRICS , China , Climate Change , Global South , South Asia , UN reforms

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