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Neighborhood News Digest- 20 September 2024

Afghanistan Russian envoy meets Amir Khan, invites him to Moscow talks-The Khaama Press Dmitry Zhirnov, the Russian ambassador in Kabul, met with Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s acting foreign minister. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on...

September 20 , 2024
Africa Now (15-31 August, 2024)

OVERVIEW Recent developments in Africa highlight significant strides in infrastructure, international diplomacy, and economic reforms. Key events include major investments by the New Development Bank, financial agreements by IMF, humanitarian...

September 2 , 2024
The Global South and the Summit of the Future

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is scheduled to convene for a “Summit of the Future” in New York on 22-23 September 2024. The outcome of this meeting of world leaders will be the adoption of a “Pact for the Future”. During the past year,...

August 20 , 2024
India’s Global Leadership: Revamped Agenda and Reformed Multilateralism Impacting Emerging World Order

India’s ascendancy as UNSecurity Council President in December 2022 for the second time in a span of only fifteen months remarkably reflect its growing global recognition as a formidable and credible power that is committed to strengthen the tenets...

February 10 , 2023
Explained: Why India’s Stance on Russia-Ukraine Crisis is Nuanced?

Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine evoked almost immediately world-wide condemnation. Russia’s actions were condemned at the UN Security Council and General Assembly. In view of India’s special ties with Russia, India abstained from such...

April 28 , 2022
Ukraine crisis: The war that is changing relations, rules

Having pushed Ukraine into war, the US does not know how to save it. Having started it, Russia does not know where to end it. Having been pushed into the war, Ukraine does not know how to come out of it. It accuses its adversary Russia saying it is...

March 28 , 2022
Has a Cold War Started between U.S. and China?

China-U.S. relations are deteriorating at a rapid pace and some scholars have wondered whether we are witnessing the beginnings of Cold War 2 between the two biggest economies? On 21st July 2020, the U.S. State Department ordered that Chinese...

August 4 , 2020
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, March 28, 2020

Economic Food security concerns stoked as exporters curb sales, importers buy more Global food security concerns are mounting as some governments contemplate restricting the flow of staple foods amid panic buying and disrupted supply chains with...

March 28 , 2020
Interaction with H.E. Mr. Kenji Hiramatsu, Japan's Ambassador to India

On March 17, 2016, a broad panel of eminent foreign policy experts representing the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) engaged Japan’s present Ambassador to India H.E. Mr. Kenji Hiramatsu in an interaction going over the entire gamut of...

March 21 , 2016
Reaping the Whirlwind; Michael Griffin; Pluto Press; PP 283; Price: Rs 1834

Afghanistan 2014: Forward to the Past? This is not a recent book, comparatively speaking; it was published in 2001, but remains topical. It covers the rise of the Taliban in the mid- to late-1990’s, and examines the main actors in the rise of this...

May 6 , 2014
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