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Safeguarding India’s Maritime Interests
December 4 , 2012 Nitin Gokhale
Views: 4955
In July, days before he retired, the then Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma commissioned a Naval Air Station at Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island, christening it INS ‘Baaz’ thereby signalling India's i...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Indian Foreign Policy Challenges
December 4 , 2012 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 9517
Indian foreign policy already faces many challenges. These challenges have not been met and will continue to confront us in the future. An understanding of what they are will help to devise future appro...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Violence in Bodo Areas: Address the Armed Component
December 3 , 2012 Dr N Manoharan
Views: 10866
After a three-month lull, violence has once again erupted in the Bodo areas of Assam. It was in July-August this year the areas witnessed major violence between Bodos and Muslims resulting in over 100 d...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Police - Law and Order, Terrorism, Ilegal Immigration

Integrity and Ethics in the Civil Service
December 3 , 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 20615
In order to understand the topic of this paper perhaps it would be best to have clearly before us the definition of the issues we are addressing. For this purpose resort was had to the new Oxford Dicti...

Governance and Political Studies

The Right Balance in Asia
December 1 , 2012 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 4269
What impact will President Barack Obama’s re-election have on the United States of America’s strategic ties with India? It needs recalling that the US defines its strategic partnership with India very b...

US, International Relations and Diplomacy

CAG and The Indian Constitution
November 26 , 2012 Dr Makkhan Lal, Distinguished Fellow, VIF (2015 - 2017)
Views: 15189
In India, it has become customary to abuse the Constitution and/or Constitutional Authority whenever a political party or a political leader is in trouble for its or his misdeeds. Let us not forget th...

Governance and Political Studies

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