Climate Change
Yamuna Biodiversity Park: An Ideal Instrument for Environmental Sustainability in Urban Spaces

In an era of climate emergency, the world is looking for desperate measures to tackle the issue of climate change. Apart from mitigation, the climate change discourse has now moved towards adaptation and nature-based solutions. Nature-based...

Neighborhood News Digest – 15 March 2023

Afghanistan 18 persons from Afghanistan took part in MEA course: IIM-Kozhikode – The Hindu The Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (IIM-K) on Tuesday said 18 participants from Afghanistan attended the sessions on the first day of the Indian...

Neighbourhood News Digest – 03 March 2023

Afghanistan Ned Price: Islamic Emirate Has Not Fulfilled Doha Agreement – Tolo News The spokesman for the US State Department once again accused the Islamic Emirate of violating the Doha agreement. Ned Price in a press conference said that Islamic...

India Africa collaboration on Renewable energies

In this episode of VIF podcast, Shri Rakshpaul Singh Malhotra, former Indian Ambassador to Niger and Samir Bhattacharya, Senior Research Associate at the Vivekananda International Foundation discusses the current contours of India’s collaboration...

Geo-engineering: A Fringe Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Introduction On 1 October 2022, the US government announced a Five-Year Plan to study the controversial and seemingly sci-fi notion of deflecting the Sun’s rays before they hit Earth in order to temporarily reduce the effects of global warming....

Neighborhood News Digest – 07 February 2023

Afghanistan Saudi diplomats leave Afghanistan, relocate to Pakistani capital -sources – The Print Saudi diplomats have left Afghanistan for “training” and will return, the Taliban administration said on Monday, though three sources familiar with...

The Promise and Peril of Africa in 2023

As the year 2022 ended, here is a brief recap of what happened in Africa over the past year. Most African countries were still battling to recover from the pandemic when the year began. However, a series of disruptions, such as supply shortages and...

Climate Change: A Review of 2022 and Projections for 2023

Over the past year, the impact of climate change has escalated significantly. The threats emanating from this existential crisis are increasingly multifaceted and interlocking in nature and continue to test the capability of states and governments...

G20 Presidency is a Celebration of India’s Culture and Social Philosophy

On 1 December 2022, India formally took over the G20 presidency, the significant multilateral forum to address the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine conflict, during stormy times in International Relations. When the drums are...

VIF Neighbourhood News Digest - December 09, 2022

Afghanistan Facing Intl Condemnation, Islamic Emirate Defends Sharia Executions: Tolo News Following widespread reactions over a recent execution, the Islamic Emirate said that the execution of guilty people is a divine command and that no one...

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