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How Nepal is Negotiating its Federalist Contract between the Citizen and the State
Mayuri Mukherjee Article

After weeks of large-scale protests, in the last week of June the federal government of Nepal withdrew a controversial bill that would have allowed it greater control of the country’s numerous temple trusts called guthis1. But while this step towar....

July 26, 2019 VIF Alerts, Neighbourhood Studies, Nepal, Article, Federalism in Nepal, Nepal constitution, Devolution of Nepal state powers
Kargil War : Recollections
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

The Kargil war was fought from May through till 26 July 1999 across a trans-Himalayan front of about 150 km at dizzying heights of up to 18000 feet in what was the most inhospitable and unlikely battleground in history. The relatively rapid expulsio....

July 26, 2019 VIF Alerts, National Security and Strategic Studies, Military Affairs, Article, Kargil Conflict, 20 years of Kargil War, Kargil Committee Report
Lead Role of JK Police, Synergy in Anti-Terrorist Operations
Bashir Assad Article

The security situation in the Kashmir region has been spiraling downward since 2008. This is essentially because Pakistan-backed separatists have devised a new strategy to sustain the unrest. The problem now is not the militant holding the gun, bu....

July 25, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir, VIF Alerts, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, Terrorism in Kashmir, Policing against terrorism, Synergy in ant-terror operations
मोदी का दूसरा कार्यकाल: ‘नेबरहुड फर्स्ट’ पर अमल
Dr Sreeradha Datta Article

भारत के आम चुनावों पर अन्य लोगों के साथ ही पड़ोसियों का भी भरपूर ध्यान रहा। कई को चुनावी कवायद के �....

July 25, 2019 VIF Alerts, Neighbourhood Studies, Governance and Political Studies, Hindi, Article, मोदी की वापसी, भारत के पड़ोसि, ‘नेबरहुड फर्स्ट’ नीति
Intra-Afghan Dialogue: A perspective
Dr Yatharth Kachiar Article

Introduction The intra-Afghan dialogue convened with the joint efforts of Germany and Qatar from 7-8 July in Doha has raised hopes of ending the 18-year-old conflict in Afghanistan. The dialogue was celebrated as a major milestone by all the major....

July 24, 2019 VIF Alerts, Neighbourhood Studies, Afghanistan, Article, US-Taliban talks, Taliban’s duplicity, Afghanistan peace
Our Constitution: Preamble Debates
Rajesh Singh Article

Last month (June), the nation remembered Emergency, which had been imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1975. The horrors that followed have been repeatedly chronicled — large-scale arrests of the then Prime Minister’s political adversaries....

July 23, 2019 VIF Alerts, Governance and Political Studies, Article, Indian Constitution, Preamble of Constitution, Constitutional debates
पाकिस्तान में नए आईएसआई प्रमुख की नियुक्ति के मायने
Prateek Joshi Article

सेना के शीर्ष क्रम में बदलाव के तहत हाल ही में ले. जन. आसिम मुनीर की जगह ले. जन. फैज हमीद को इंटर-सर्�....

July 23, 2019 VIF Alerts, Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Hindi, Article, आईएसआई का नया प्रमुख, पाकिस्तान सेना का राजनीति में दखल
A Look at the Boeing-Bloomberg’s Bloomer on 737 Max Aircraft
Sridhar Vembu Article

A Bloomer! In claiming that cheap Indian coders brought down the plane, here is the actual Bloomberg headline: ‘Boeing’s 737 Max Software Out-sourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers’(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-m....

July 22, 2019 VIF Alerts, Technological and Scientific Studies, Article, 737 Max crash, Bloomberg’s propaganda article, Boeing management’s gaffe
The Spirit of Indian Federalism
Rajesh Singh Article

The issue of India’s federal nature has been both a subject of reiteration and conflict between the ruling party and the opposition. There have been instances when the opposition parties accused the Centre of violating the federal spirit through po....

July 18, 2019 VIF Alerts, Governance and Political Studies, Article, Indian Constitution, Federalism in India, Indian Union
बिम्सटेक - एक सुरक्षा ढांचे की तरफ
Dr Sreeradha Datta Article

प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी के दूसरी बार जनादेश पाने के भारत के घरेलू और विदेश नीति दोनों के लि�....

July 18, 2019 VIF Alerts, Neighbourhood Studies, Hindi, Article, बिम्सटेक प्रतिबद्धता, भारत के दक्षिण-पूर्व एशियाई सम्बन्ध, साझा कारोबार-सुरक्षा मसले
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