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The World Environment Day: Bring Back Respect and Reverence for Nature to Save Mankind
June 04, 2020 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The UN General Assembly designated fifth June as the World Environment Day in 1972. In 1974 the first Environment Day was celebrated on the theme “Only one Earth”. That theme is as relevant today as it was then. Covid-19 has brought home the onen....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , COVID-19 , Pandemic , Locusts , Nature , earth , Cyclones , sustainable development , need & Greed
Modi Calls upon the Indian Industry to ‘Think Big’ and Help Build Aatmanirbhar Bharat
June 03, 2020 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

Speaking at the 125th Annual Session of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon the Indian industry to take advantage of the unprecedented opportunities thrown up by the Covid-19 crisis and help build a st....

Keywords : Governance and Political Studies , Economic Studies , Commentary , economy , COVID-19 , Supply chains , MSMEs , Aatmanirbhar Bharat , CII , health , structural reforms
Math and effect of Modi package
May 28, 2020 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Commentary

Its explicit intent is to provide for the deprived and disturbed through direct fiscal spend from the budget. The Modi stimulus package is in three parts — direct government spend, bank credit, and rate cut and lending by RBI to banks. Mo....

Keywords : Governance and Political Studies , Economic Studies , Commentary , RBI , COVID-19 , G7 , GDP , Economic Package , Indian financial model , Modi package
Covid-19 package — World and India
May 27, 2020 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Commentary

Where there are six economists', said Winston Churchill quoting Barbara Wootton, “there are seven opinions or even more”. Churchill even chided the undoubtedly great economist John Maynard Keynes for giving him two opinions on every issue. Econom....

Keywords : Governance and Political Studies , Economic Studies , Commentary , RBI , Modi Government , COVID-19 , GDP , Covid-19 package , Economic Package
Implications of the Ongoing Tension with China along the LAC
May 26, 2020 Jayadeva Ranade Commentary

China has accused India of crossing and violating the LAC. On 5 May the Chinese media reports said: On the May 18th, a reporter from the Global Times (in Chinese) learned from sources that the Chinese border guards have strengthened control over t....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , CPEC , PLA , Sikkim , LAC , Ladakh , BMP , Tibet , Military District
Indian Navy: Time to Explore Drone Motherships
May 26, 2020 Dr Vijay Sakhuja Commentary

Technological disruptions led by Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies are now a common feature among the advanced navies. Smart, intelligent, predictive and cognitive technologies are being added to the menu of naval warfare. The military/....

Keywords : National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , 4IR technologies , Drone Mothership , UAV , UUV) , Indian Navy , Make in India , Atma Nirbhar Bharat , FDI , DTIS
What happened at World Health Assembly?
May 25, 2020 Amb K P Fabian Commentary

There is considerable confusion as to what happened in the diplomatic bridge game between rising China and declining US, declining at an accelerated pace under President Trump, who holding trumps got trumped badly by President Xi Jinping who finessed....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , US , China , Xi Jinping , COVID-19 , World Health Assembly
HAIL TO THEE- THE CPC | A POEM
May 22, 2020 Amb Kanwal Sibal Commentary

THE SONG OF XI ( WITH MARTIAL MUSIC) Tibet now is under our yoke, We have made Dalai Lama broke, With monasteries in control And tight surveillance, it’s our goal, The reincarnation process Will be done under our duress. A....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , China , democracy , CPC , Xi Jinping , Coronavirus , Shanghai , HAIL TO THEE
The West Bank Jitters
May 21, 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

Last week in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intent of formally annexing some parts of the disputed West Bank to their territory , King Abdullah II of Jordan warned the Israelis and the World especially the US that it will l....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Israel , Palestine , West Bank , Deal of the century , MEPP
Regulating the Use of Autonomous Weapon Systems
May 19, 2020 Mayuri Mukherjee Commentary

Instead of worrying about technical definitions, focus on how humans can retain control over their machines
Terminators running amok; the wanton killing of human beings; the end of civilisation as we know it; these a....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , artificial intelligence , Lethal autonomous weapons , Emerging technologies , UN CCW , International humanitarian law
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