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East Asia Compass
Enhancing India-South Korea Relations
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 16 Jul, 2018 · #5494 · Commentary
South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited in India for a four-day trip from 8 to 11 July 2018, and both the countries resolved to add more substance to their partnership. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Moon Jae-in re-emphasised the natural ...
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'Advantage Assam': Instrumentalising Development through Tourism
Riddhi Mahanta. · 09 Jul, 2018 · #5493 · Commentary
‘Advantage
Assam’, the Assam Global Investor’s Summit held in February 2018, was the
largest ever investment promotion initiative by the government of Assam. It
opened with much fanfare and was covered extensively by the media.
This
comm ...
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US Sanctions against Iran: What are India's Options?
Ambassador KP Fabian. · 06 Jul, 2018 · #5492 · Commentary
The US first imposed various sanctions on Iran in 1979 when the US embassy was occupied, with the staff taken hostage, following the fall of US-supported Shah. Oil sanctions were imposed in 2012 ...
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IPCS Discussion
Vietnam-India Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Discussion Report. · 04 Jul, 2018 · #5491 · Commentary
On 6 June 2018, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) hosted His Excellency Ton Sinh Thanh, Ambassador of Vietnam to India, who delivered his remarks on 'Vietnam-India Relations: Past, Present, and Future'. The interaction was held under ...
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India's NSG Membership and the Human Capital Factor
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra & Tarika Rastogi. · 04 Jul, 2018 · #5490 · Commentary
The implications of India’s aspiration to join
the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) has been dissected variously from a strategic
prism, as well as from the industrial. While industrial dissections of the
argument have focused on India's lack of co ...
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The Shaky Acquisition of Combat Aircraft in the Indian Air Force
Prashant Dikshit. · 28 Jun, 2018 · #5487 · Commentary
There seems to be widespread scepticism among military air power experts in India regarding the future of the Indian Air Force's (IAF) combat worthiness. At the heart of the matter is the process and speed of the induction of combat aircraft in the f ...
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Red Affairs
Governance Promises and its Antithesis: A Case Study of Junglemahal
Bibhu Prasad Routray. · 25 Jun, 2018 · #5485 · Commentary
The catchphrase, ...
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Asian Militaries and Artificial Intelligence
Vijay Sakhuja. · 25 Jun, 2018 · #5484 · Commentary
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has found significant use in military hardware, and AI-enabled weapons and sensors are being developed by the US, Russia and a number of European countries. Likewise, some Asian militaries such as China, Japan, South Kore ...
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Jammu and Kashmir: Analysing the BJP-PDP Break Up
Sarral Sharma. · 21 Jun, 2018 · #5483 · Commentary
On 19 June, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ended its three-year old alliance with the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), resulting in the collapse of the coalition government. Indian President Ram Nath ...
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India-Indonesia and Sabang Port: A Game Changer?
Angshuman Choudhury. · 21 Jun, 2018 · #5482 · Commentary
During Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s May 2018 visit to
Indonesia, New Delhi and Jakarta announced that they would set up a Joint Task
Force to “undertake projects for port related infrastructure in and around” the
Sabang island, loca ...
