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  • RSS CHIEF’S ANNUAL SPEECH: CLOSE ALIGNMENT WITH BJP

    RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s annual ‘Dussehra’ (Hindu festival symbolising victory of good - Lord Ram - over evil) speech is considered by the Hindu organisation as an address to the nation. The chief talks about the various challenges before the country and lays down the ‘Sangh’s’ (RSS family) line on key issues.

  • JAMMU AND KASHMIR: CENTRE OPENS UP LAND SALE

    J&K witnessed strong protests against the government amending land laws to open up urban or non-agricultural land for purchase by outsiders, permit contract farming on agricultural lands, provide for set-ting up of an industrial development corporation etc.

  • INDIA STANDS BEHIND FRANCE: CONDEMNS TURKEY

    India joined European countries in condemning Turkey’s President Erdogan, for his personal attacks against the French President Emmanuel Macron. The study seeks to understand the rationale behind In-dia’s support to France when even the US, the UK or Australia have not spoken out in Macron’s support so far.

  • 2+2 DIALOGUE: STRONG REINFORCEMENT OF INDIA - US RELATIONS

    The 2+2 dialogue between US and Indian Defence and Foreign  Secretaries are seen as a strong reinforce-ment of the bilateral relationship and an unambiguous signal of renewal and continuity a week before the US Presidential elections. Five pacts we're signed, the most important being BECA, or Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement.

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    INDIA - CHINA: THE NEW EQUATIONS

    48 years ago, when Chinese troops defeated the ill-prepared Indian army,  Mao Zedong made the point that China did not regard India an equal. 58 years later, Xi Jinping is making the same point. Equations are however, now changing. There are indications of new thinking on Tibet and Taiwan already.

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    INDIA KEY TO FUTURE OF QUAD

    The first standalone Quad ministerial meeting in Tokyo on October 6 perhaps holds the promise for some-thing much larger, giving a new direction to Indo-Pacific geopolitics.

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    AUSTRALIA TO BE PART OF THE MALABAR EXERCISE: IMPLICATIONS

    On 19 October 2020, India announced Australia will be part of the Malabar Exercise making it the first military exercise between all countries that make the Quad. Since 2017, the year Quad was revived, Mala-bar had been a trilateral exercise involving the navies of US, India and Japan. The study indicates their re-sponses and their determination to stand against China.

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    JAMMU AND KASHMIR: FORMER RIVALS COME TOGETHER TO REVERSE 5 AUGUST

    Rival political parties - National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) - signatories to the Gupkar Declaration, have vowed to continue their struggle for restoration of pre-August 5, 2019, position.

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    ‘QUAD’ A GREAT CONCEPT, SHOULD BE A FORCE AS WELL

    Foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the United States met in Tokyo on October 6-7, a second time at the ministerial level of the Quad. Formed in 2007, it went into hibernation for various factors.

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    INDIA - CHINA: UNDERSTANDING CHINA’S BELLIGERENCE

    Foreign Minister S Jaishankar Thursday revealed that India and China are engaged in talks to resolve the border standoff and what is going on is “something confidential” between the two sides. He however, acknowledged that  the troop build-up along the border, in many ways, has no precedence.

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    HATHRAS GANG RAPE: POLITICAL COSTS FOR BJP

    The response of the administration and police to the gang rape and killing of a Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh, has political consequences for the BJP.

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    AGRICULTURE REFORM: WILL FARMERS BENEFIT ?

    Critics question the government argument that farmers now have the choice to sell outside the ‘mandis’ (government markets). The study explains that data shows otherwise and that farmers must be given a genuine choice. Majority of farmers even now depend upon market forces that have not delivered. The study argues why the farmer is against the reform.

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