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Japanese Prime Minister’s State Visit To India
January 3 , 2012 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
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The state visit to India of Japanese Prime Minister Noda for the annual Prime Ministerial Summit on December 27-28, 2011 has placed India-Japan ties on a firm upward spiral. Following the dip in relatio...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Forty Years of Bangladesh Liberation: Quite Young
January 2 , 2012 Dr Punam Pandey
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Bangladesh has celebrated its forty years of liberation from Pakistan on 16 December2011. Anniversaries are very important in personal as well as collective life because it provides an opportunity to th...

Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Pursue an Activist Policy, Reaching out to All Players
January 2 , 2012 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
Views: 4890
The US intent to draw down its forces from Afghanistan beginning July 2011 has been articulated on several occasions since President Barack Obama’s address at West Point on 1 December 2009. In this addr...

Afghanistan, International Relations and Diplomacy

Equipping India’s Defence Forces – Need for Transformational Shift
December 30 , 2011 Radhakrishna Rao
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That a country, which has successfully accomplished a lunar mission and emerged as a global software and IT hub but continues to meet around 70 percent of its defence requirements through imports can ha...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Give Foreign Policy More Coherence in 2012
December 28 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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The challenges facing Indian diplomacy do not change from one calendar year to the next. The opportunities and problems of 2011 will spill over into 2012 as they are not defined by calendar years. The e...

International Relations and Diplomacy

What is The CBI?
December 26 , 2011 Dr M N Buch (late)
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So much controversy has been created over whether the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should be under the Lokpal or not that it is time to reflect on what the CBI is. Under the Seventh Schedule o...

Governance and Political Studies

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