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Covid 19 and The Shaking World0
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- September 11, 2020
by Nipun Kalra 11 September 2020 War, hunger, and other deadly diseases will be all the more squeezing, and thoughts of social distancing may have little relationship to the lived reality. The narrative surrounding Covid-19 and its ‘extraordinary’ nature have served to disengage the masses from the exclusionary nature of basic public healthcare
READ MOREIndian Cyber Threats and APTs Posing Challenges to Pakistan 0
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- September 10, 2020
By: Basma Khalil 10 September 2020 In recent years, cyber threats, from replicating program software to a ransom-worm, have evolved into Advanced Persistent threats (APTs). These are pre-planned cyber-attacks aimed at penetrating the adversary’s central communication servers to seize or hack important information stored there. APTs are prolonged targeted attacks against a network to
READ MOREUAE Recognition of Israel Dents Emirati Religious Soft Power0
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- September 10, 2020
by James M. Dorsey 10 September 2020 The United Arab Emirates’ establishment of diplomatic relations with Israel is damaging its efforts to garner religious soft power by projecting itself as a model of Islamic moderation and tolerance and a force for peace. The UAE move has sparked splits within a key group, created
READ MOREThe Death of Democracy in Afghanistan0
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- September 9, 2020
by Hafizullah Nadiri 9 September 2020 Daoud Khan, the Afghan president before the communist coup d’état, once said that he felt the happiest when he could light his American cigarettes with Soviet matches. This metaphor, I think, is important in understanding the dilemma the Third World countries were faced with during the Cold War. It
READ MOREWomen, Their Rights, and Nothing Less: The Tale of Sabarimala0
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- September 9, 2020
Sabrimala temple authorities consider women of menstruating age may defile the temple by their presence and harm its purity. by Sneha Tripathi 9 September 2020 “Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity towards women is not our culture, then we must make one.” Chimamanda
READ MORENew inputs of party system in India0
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- September 8, 2020
by Dr. Rajkumar Singh 9 September 2020 Indian party system’s experiences were of co-existing with the competition but without a trace of alteration. As a result, the opposition parties confined themselves to a role quite distinctive instead of providing an alternative to the Congress Party they functioned by influencing sections within Congress. They opposed
READ MOREImpact of Indian and Russian coziness over US and Indian defense relations: The case of S-4000
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- September 8, 2020
by Maheen Shafeeq 9 September 2020 In a multipolar world, the significance of alliances to counter adversaries remains at the forefront of strategic planning. Alliances provide a comparative advantage and added strength against the adversary. Despite the commitment and value, the Indian government has given to its alliance with the United States,
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ABOLISHING WET MARKETS: CHINA’S RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS THE WORLD0
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- September 8, 2020
China’s demand for wildlife needs to be treated as a public health threat by Asmita Kandari and Bhoomika Agarwal 9 September 2020 The world discovered a new virus on New Year’s Eve. China admitted that its people were developing cough and fever, which was proving fatal for some people in the older age group
READ MOREIndia in the wake of a pandemic-driven recession: Massive loss, modest response?0
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- September 8, 2020
by Iyanatul Islam 9 September 2020 India’s national statistical agency announced on August 31 that quarterly (April to June, 2020) GDP declined by a massive 23.9 percent. This was the largest recorded GDP contraction among major economies (see Figure 1). Thus, the Indian economy is heading towards an unavoidable recession for the FY 2020-21 which could surpass
READ MOREChina Could Signal Increased Engagement with Iran But Doesn’t0
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- September 8, 2020
by James M Dorsey 8 September, 2020 HERE are two potential indicators of Chinese interest in moving ahead with a proposed US$400 billion economic and military cooperation agreement with Iran: a Chinese push for Iranian membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and renewed interest in a China-Pakistan-Iran-Turkey energy pipeline. China has moved on
READ MORESri Lanka: Why and how of the ‘India First’ security policy0
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- September 6, 2020
by N Sathiya Moorthy 3 September 2020 Sri Lanka’s ‘India First’ strategic security policy, outlined by the new Foreign Secretary, Adm Jayanth Colombage (retd), is a timely reiteration of a policy of past 20-plus years, but seldom understood and appreciated as such in the northern neighbourhood. In doing so, Secretary Colombage, a former
READ MOREBeyond PPE – COVID-19 and Safety, Stress and Trauma Concerns of Frontline Health Workers: Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand0
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- September 3, 2020
By Professor M. Adil Khan and Dr. Rebecca E. Olson[i] 4 September 2020 “Social distancing at home was hard — setting guidelines, having separate utensils, no other stuff in the toilet and shower room. Each person has their own basket for toiletries. For two months, not sleeping with [my] spouse and not being able
READ MOREWho called De-notified Tribes as born Criminals?0
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- September 3, 2020
In 2007, the United Nation’s Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) urged the Government of India to repeal the Habitual Offenders Act and aim at the rehabilitation of these denotified tribes. The committee enumerated various examples of people of these tribes radically discriminated by the police and the society alike. (Rao, 2008) by Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
READ MOREIndia’s gamble on China policy looking like a bad bet0
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- September 3, 2020
New Delhi’s pivot to the West driven by its foreign minister has given China the upper hand by Bhim Bhurtel September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, now India’s external affairs minister India’s China strategy has looked
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