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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

India’s Nuclear Revolution and Military Strategy: A Work in Progress

On May 11, 1998, India declared itself a nuclear weapon state by conducting a series of tests in the Thar desert. Under Jawaharlal Nehru and Homi Bhabha, India laid the foundation of an elaborate nuclear science programme in 1948, just a year after its Independence. Prime Minister (PM) Indira Gandhi conducted a peaceful nuclear explosion in May 1974. Yet, India took almost five decades to embrace nuclear weapons. No other country in the nuclear age gestated on its nuclear weapon-making potential for so long.

Imagindia calls for Pakistan to be placed under UN Trusteeship

New Delhi. The Imagindia Institute, a leading think tank, today called upon the world community to discuss immediate arrangements to place Pakistan under the 1945 Trusteeship Council mechanism of the United Nations.

“There is a Shakespearean tragedy unfolding in Pakistan today. Though, as the state of Pakistan continues to melt down, there are also green shoots of an Olive Revolution on the march in Pakistan. Does this portend a Pakistan Spring? And, even if the Olive Revolution succeeds, will it be able to save Pakistan from becoming a failed state, with dangerous implications for its own people, and the world community?

Unlocking India’s Potential from I2U2 to IUSU

In the wake of unprecedented developments in West Asia especially the demarche and rapprochement by major Gulf powers in recent times, the meeting of National Security Advisers of USA (Jake Sullivan), India (Ajit Doval), and UAE (Sheikh Tahnoun) in Riyadh with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was highly significant for more than one reason.

Politics in Academic Recruitment: Plight of DU Ad-hocs Faculty

Political groups within Delhi University Teachers Association have been manipulating academic appointments to strengthen their cadres.

In the season of academic and cultural festivities at the University of Delhi, the news of a young academic Samarveer Singh’s death by suicide at Hindu College has left the academic community in shock, scared and dumbfounded. For colleagues who knew him, the pain has been indescribable and unbearable.

Is India Squandering its Rotating G20 Presidency?

What should India get out of its G20 presidency, apart, of course, from countless dos all over the country to remind people, with their pomp, posters and streams of visitors from abroad, of India’s global leadership role?

In our current interconnected, interdependent world, coordination of national policies and actions is a must, to ensure mutual interaction results in productive coherence for the world at large rather than conflict. This calls for global platforms where leaders of the countries that matter can get together and agree on some things. G20 is the most important and most representative of such platforms.

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