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The IMEC Way
September 28 , 2023 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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On the sidelines of G20 leaders of India, USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE, France, Italy, Germany and EU announced a new maritime and overland connectivity corridor between Asia and Europe i.e. India, Middle Eas...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Biden , BRI , IMEC , India , Middle East , PM Modi , UAE

The India Middle-East Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC): Reviving Prosperity; the Mauryan, Chola Connect
September 27 , 2023 Sumedha Verma Ojha
Article Views: 5295
Introduction
The India Middle-East Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) which was announced at the G20 Leaders Event on the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment on 9th September will have a profound global effect on the 21st century.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : G20 , Global Geo-politics , IMEC , Trade Routes , World GDP

Bihana Didi: The Third Indian Scientist to Receive Norman Borlaug Award
September 27 , 2023 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
Positive Bharat Views: 3899
As the industrial and service sectors have overgrown, agriculture’s share of the Indian economy has steadily decreased to less than 15%. However, the importance of agriculture in India’s economic and so...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : agriculture , Food Security , Indian Economy , Nutrition , Positive Bharat , rural development

Bharat’s G20 Presidency: An Ode to India-Africa Friendship
September 27 , 2023 Samir Bhattacharya
Article Views: 6254
Under the framework of the Group of Twenty (G20) presidency, India hosted the final summit on September 9 and 10 in the presence of more than 40 world leaders, including the G20 Heads of State or their ...

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Africa , Africa Union , China , G20 , G20 summit , G21 , Global South , IMEEC , India , India Africa Relations , India in Africa , Russia , Ukraine Crisis

China: Sifting through Contradictions and Paradoxes
September 26 , 2023 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 5376
There has been a dominant narrative that China is peaking, has fallen off the miracle path, has an ageing population, burdened by high debt and a meddling government, all turning China into a fading pow...

National Security and Strategic Studies, China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : CCP’s expansionism , China’s internal politics , Chinese economy , PRC’s great power ambitions , the China threat to neighbourhood , weaponization of economy and trade

Not Fair to Equate Religion with Caste: Insights from Swami Vivekananda
September 25 , 2023 Dr Arpita Mitra
Article Views: 5706
Perhaps we are once again at that historic juncture where religion has to bear the brunt for the existence of social evils such as caste system. India was at such a juncture during the social reform mov...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Brahminhood , Caste system , Sanatana dharma , smriti , social reform movements , Upanishads , Vedanta

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