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Why Pakistan is Blowing Apart LoC Ceasefire? 27 Aug 2013 | 01:03 pm
Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow, VIF Even though there have been occasional violations by Pakistani troops of the ceasefire agreement on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, the recent flare...
Recent Political Developments in China 27 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
Growing signs of ideological hardening Ambassador PP Shukla (Joint Director, VIF) Back in the days of the Soviet Union, readers of a nationalist newspaper, Sovetskaya Rossiya [Soviet Russia] were ex...
Cross-Media Ownership – Can India Checkmake It? 22 Aug 2013 | 04:09 pm
Shivaji Sarkar India has been debating the issue of cross-media ownership for the last over 60 years.However, it is only now that it is being raised by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) at...
Will China Checkmate India on Chabahar? 22 Aug 2013 | 09:58 am
Radhakrishna Rao, Visiting Fellow, VIF In a development that could very well upset India’s geo-strategic apple cart, China is making deft and vigorous moves to woo Iran to accept its offer of US$80-m...
India’s Dialogue with Pakistan a Trap 19 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
Kanwal Sibal, Dean, Centre for International Relations and Diplomacy, VIF Our response to the killing of five Indian soldiers last week by the Pakistanis inside our Line of Control has again shown ou...
Some Common Myths about India-Pakistan Relations 17 Aug 2013 | 09:49 am
Amb PP Shukla (Joint Director, VIF) As tensions rise between India and Pakistan, the usual arguments are being repeated on both sides of a serious divide in India on how to deal with that country. r...
Punish the Pakistan Army for Repeated ‘Rogue’ Actions 14 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
Brig (Retd) Gurmeet Kanwal, Visiting Fellow, VIF In recent months, the Pakistan army has been behaving in a rather aggressive manner on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir in blatant viola...
India’s Defence Diplomacy as a Component of its Look East Policy 12 Aug 2013 | 03:16 pm
Brig (Retd) Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF The dominant impulse of India’s Look East Policy (LEP) that was launched in 1992 was economic and cultural, the objective being to reintegrate India econom...
Strike Corps for the Mountains: Upgrading India’s Military Strategy from Dissuasion to Deterrence 9 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Brig (Retd) Gurmeet Kanwal, Visiting Fellow, VIF On July 17, 2013, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) finally approved the army’s proposal for raising a Strike Corps for the mountains. read mor...
China’s Defence White Paper, 2013: Assertions of A ‘Super Power’ in Making? 1 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
Lt Gen (Retd) Gautam Banerjee, Executive Council, VIF Promulgations of A Super-Power In April 2013, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) released her eighth Defence White Paper, titled as ‘The Diver...
