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Arihant to India’s defence: Nuclear triad is now fully operational and provides us with credible strategic deterrence
General NC Vij, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM Article

Monday, 5 November 2018, was indeed a red letter and historic day in the history of India’s security paradigm when a visibly proud Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the completion of a maiden ‘deterrent patrol’ by INS Arihant, India’s fir....

November 19, 2018 VIF Alerts, National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Indian Navy, Nuclear Triad, INS Arihant, Arihant
Transcript of the full speech of Shri S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF on 'State of the Economy: India and the World' delivered at VIF on 15 Nov 2018
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

Professor Roger Moser, who says India is a second home, was partnering with me in discussions today on employing technology which is already developed. This is a new area of development all over the world. Even before he went into the subject, he sai....

November 19, 2018 VIF Alerts, Economic Studies, Article, economy, RBI, Gurumuthy, World Economy
The Trinity Of Power
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

INS Arihant will enable India to assert its rights on water, besides land and air. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on November 5 that India’s first indigenously designed and built nuclear-powered submarine, the INS Arihant, which is equi....

November 19, 2018 VIF Alerts, National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Indian Navy, INS Arihant
मालदीव: लोकतंत्र की जीत
Dr Sreeradha Datta Article

चुनाव अचंभे में डालते ही हैं। मालदीव में 23 सितंबर, 2018 को हुए राष्ट्रपति चुनाव इतिहास में ऐसे चुना....

November 16, 2018 VIF Alerts, Neighbourhood Studies, Maldives, Hindi, Article, मालदीव राष्ट्रपति चुनाव, मालदीव में साजिश
Pakistan: The Aasia Bibi Case and its Aftermath
Tilak Devasher Article

The controversy surrounding the blasphemy case of Pakistani citizen Aasia Noreen, better known as Aasia Bibi of village Ikkawali in Sheikhpura, Punjab, has drawn attention to the culture of extremism in Pakistan and showed the government and the arm....

November 13, 2018 VIF Alerts, Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Article, Pakistan’s Aasia Bibi, Blasphemy law in Pakistan
The Middle East and the Israeli Gains – Bridging the Diplomatic Divide
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Gloom in Middle East The Middle East has been wrenching and reeling under an unprecedented pressure during the last decade. In recent times, this has been further accentuated by self-inflicted goals and self-defeating regional diplomatic outreach ....

November 13, 2018 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, Khashoggi Affair, Saudi Regime, Israel-Qatar Diplomacy
Moscow Regional Consultations on Afghanistan: Can India Play a Role?
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

On 9 November 2018, Moscow organised regional consultations on Afghanistan which were attended by the Taliban’s Qatar office and the representatives of the Afghan High Peace Council. This was the first time that the Taliban and the representatives ....

November 10, 2018 VIF Alerts, Neighbourhood Studies, Afghanistan, Article, Taliban-Afghan meeting, Russia’s Afghanistan initiative
Bangladesh Elections: Growing Influence of ‘Hefazat’
Abhijit Chakravertty Article

The announcement on October 26th at a party forum by Sheikh Hasina that the two foremost hard-line fundamentalist groups, viz. the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and the Hefazat-e-Islam(HeI), should be treated differently, was closely followed by the long del....

November 08, 2018 VIF Alerts, Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh, Article, Bangladesh elections, Bangladesh Islamist hard-line party
West Asia Review, October, 2018
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) - Jamal Khashoggi Fiasco Saudi Arabia and its maverick Prince Mohammed Bin Salman called upon themselves the global criticism due to a botched up assassination of an insider-outsider critic in Khashoggi inside their I....

November 06, 2018 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, Saudi Arabia, Khashoggi murder, Syrian conflict
Artillery Today
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Article

Introduction The Indian Artillery has ever been performing creditably during war and peace. Its motto ‘Sarvatra’ signifies its employment in all operations including Low Intensity Conflicts. Artillery is actively involved in surveillance, reco....

October 30, 2018 VIF Alerts, National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Artillery modernisation, Artillery indigenisation
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