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Post Tablighi Jamaat Fiasco - The Way Forward

Last one week has seen an exponential rise in N-COVID-19 cases, with the religious congregation of Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) followers at the Markaz in Delhi, acting as a significant trigger. It is appalling that despite so many advisories from the state ....

April 13, 2020 VIF Alerts, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, Terrorism, COVID-19, Tablighi Jamaat, Super spreader, Markaz

Islamic State Attack on Kabul Gurdwara Raises Several Questions

Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

Amid the ongoing global panic caused by Coronavirus (aka Covid-19), the Sikh and Hindu communities in Kabul were subjected to the mortifying experience of the killing of their loved ones, not from Covid-19 pandemic, but the “ugly monster” of terr....

April 13, 2020 Terrorism, VIF Alerts, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kabul, Islamic State, IS-KP, ISKP, Khurasan Khorasan, Gurdwara Attack

Global Impact of Covid-19 Crisis

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

Covid-19 is the first full-blown crisis of a hyper-connected world. It arose as the local outbreak in China at Wuhan city, and within a few weeks, it had spread all across the world. More than a million Corona positive cases have been noticed and mor....

April 12, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, economy, Globalisation, COVID-19, IMF, Multilateralism, Helpless West, US-China rivalry, capitalism, Global supply chains, Non--traditional security

COVID-19 in Central Asia: Responses and Resolutions

Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Introduction Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic has become a serious challenge for countries across the globe. The virus has stressed public health systems worldwide and disrupted the global economy. The novel Coronavirus that emerged in the Ch....

April 11, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, Central Asia, Article, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, COVID-19, Economic Slowdown, Migrants, Coronavirus Pandemic, Remittances, relief packages, precautionary measures, Kyrgyz Republic

Rethinking National Security in an Age of Pandemics

PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Introduction National security has traditionally been defined and understood in military terms. This notion of national security focuses on threats such as external armed aggression, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), terrorism, insurgencies etc. ....

April 10, 2020 VIF Alerts, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, Pakistan, China, national security, Internal Security, National Security Strategy, Terrorism, insurgency, Jammu and Kashmir, Security, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Pandemic, North-East, Left Wing Extremism

भारत के स्वास्थ्य क्षेत्र को नया जीवन

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

कोविड-19 के खिलाफ हमारी जंग में चिकित्सक और स्वास्थ्यकर्मी नायक रहे हैं। इसीलिए निजी सुरक्षा उप�....

April 10, 2020 VIF Alerts, Governance and Political Studies, Hindi, Article, राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा, COVID-19, स्वास्थ्य क्षेत्र, कोविड-19, वेंटिलेटर, जांच किट, मास्क, कोरोनावायरस महामारी, स्वास्थ्य सुरक्षा, कोरोनावायरस संकट, जीडीपी

Afghanistan: Taliban abandons the 'peace talks'

Dr Yatharth Kachiar Article

Amid the global pandemic, when the countries are fighting for their very survival, the war in Afghanistan is slowly simmering. On Tuesday, the Taliban directed their negotiating team to end the ongoing discussions with the Afghan government on 'priso....

April 09, 2020 VIF Alerts, Neighbourhood Studies, Afghanistan, Article, India, US, War, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Taliban, Peace talks, troop withdrawal, COVID-19, aid cut, minorities, Sikh minorities, Hazara minorities

Rejuvenating India’s health sector

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

Doctors and healthcare workers are the heroes of our battle against COVID 19. It is, therefore, painful to see that many of them contracted the infection because of lack of personal protective gears. The country faces an acute shortage of essential ....

April 08, 2020 VIF Alerts, Governance and Political Studies, Article, Telemedicine, India's Health sector, GDP on health, Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme, shortage of Doctors, Healthcare infrastructure, medical devices sector, APIS, Health Cess, health R & D, medical education, preventive healthcare, Disease Surveillance mechanisms

COVID-19 ails the Beijing Model

Aayush Mohanty Article

The United Nations Security Council, the Premier forum to discuss threats to global peace and security, is yet to discuss COVID-19. An attempt to address the Virus was blocked by China last month while it served as the Chair of the Security Council. ....

April 08, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, China, WHO, COVID-19, Multilateralism