COMMENTARIES
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Who Manages What?: COVID-19 and the Centre-State Division of Responsibilities
N Manoharan · 16 Apr, 2020 · #5678 · Commentary
Who
is responsible for COVID-19 management in India? The centre, the states, or
both?Going
by the division of powers as per the Constitution, Schedule 7, Entry 6, “Public
health and sanitation; hospitals and dispensaries” fall within the d...
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Exploring the Potential of an India-Japan Naval Treaty
Siddharth Anil Nair · 15 Apr, 2020 · #5676 · Commentary
For decades, Japan’s military capability has
been restrained by Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. However, the
introduction of two documents—the Guidelines for US-Japan Defence Cooperation (2015)
(henceforth, the “Guidelines”),
a...
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Phase-II of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Dim Prospects
Nowmay Opalinski · 15 Apr, 2020 · #5675 · Commentary
As the China Pakistan Economic
Corridor (CPEC)—which is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—enters
its second phase, Pakistan’s new Special Economic Zones (SEZ) are now at the
forefront of the Sino-Pakistani industrial cooper...
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The Relevance of Aslam Farooqui’s Arrest
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy · 06 Apr, 2020 · #5674 · Commentary
On 4 April, Afghanistan’s National Directorate of
Security (NDS) announced that Aslam Farooqui, the chief of the Islamic State
‘Khorasan Province’ (ISKP) had been arrested in Kandahar, Afghanistan, along
with 19 others, including two key ...
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India: Supply Chains During a Health Crisis
Shoumitro Chatterjee · 02 Apr, 2020 · #5673 · Commentary
One silver
lining for India during the current pandemic is that there is no aggregate food
shortage in the near-term. The stocks of the Food Corporation of India (FCI)
are almost three times the buffer stock. Therefore, although India does not
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COVID-19 and Left Wing Extremism in India: Emerging Concerns
Rajat Kumar Kujur · 31 Mar, 2020 · #5672 · Commentary
Left wing extremism (LWE) is known to be India’s biggest
internal security threat. LWE conflict zones are home to a variety of actors,
such as the local civilian population, security and administrative personnel, Communist Party of India-Maois...
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Red Affairs
Maoist Attack in Chhattisgarh: The Devil is in the Details
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 31 Mar, 2020 · #5671 · Commentary · Column
In the evening of 22 March, 17 security personnel were
killed in an attack carried out by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district. 14 more personnel were injured, two of them,
critically. In the midst...
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East Asia Compass
Responding to a Pandemic: Lessons from South Korea
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 31 Mar, 2020 · #5670 · Commentary · Column
The COVID-19
pandemic has engulfed large parts of the world, and while unprecedented
attempts have been made by several countries to mitigate the threat it poses to
their populations, it has been nearly impossible to control the spread. The UK
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India: Climate Change and the Need for Gender-Responsive Policymaking
Akanksha Khullar · 30 Mar, 2020 · #5669 · Commentary
While climate
change in general has negative implications, from a gender perspective, it
entails greater risks for women than men. In India, as weather patterns change
and become more unpredictable, with rising temperatures,
droughts, heavy ra...
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The Strategist
China and COVID-19: What Went Wrong?
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 29 Mar, 2020 · #5668 · Commentary · Column
The history of armed conflict is
intertwined with the generation of diseases. In 1155, the German Holy Roman
Emperor Barbarossa poisoned water wells in Italy with human bodies as he
challenged the papacy; to 1763, when the British deliberately ...
