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Highlights He said that US does not want to impose sanctions under CAATSA against its friends India and Russia had inked a USD 5 billion deal in October 2018. Amid reports that the US may impose sanctions against India over S-400 air defence systems with Russia, outgoing US envoy Kenneth Juster said on Tuesday (January 5) that the Indian government may have to make hard decisions regarding its decision to purchase S-400 air defence system from Russia. Juster issued the warning after delivering...

India faces aggressive Chinese activity on its border on a sustained basis India Published: Wednesday, January 6, 2021, 8:46 [IST] New Delhi, Jan 06: India faces aggressive Chinese activity on its border perhaps on a sustained basis. In this backdrop the close coordination between India and the US is important, outgoing American envoy Kenneth Juster said. "I believe that no country has as strong and robust a defense and counterterrorism relationship with India as does the United States. Simply ...

There is hardly any doubt that failing health systems result in poor health outcomes and hamper progress towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In Africa, health systems are hobbled by leadership and governance challenges, extreme shortages of health workers, corruption in procurement systems for medical products and technologies, poor information systems, and health financing constraints. This brief discusses ways in which decisi...

The ongoing India-China face-off in Eastern Ladakh may appear to be a small-scale confrontation between conventional forces. But it is still one between nuclear-armed states, and the threat of escalation cannot be denied. In its wake, India has carried out a series of missile tests, while China too has fired a number of ballistic missiles near the Paracel and Spratly Islands, apparently to warn the US, but hardly something New Delhi can ignore. This analysis makes three key points: the threat f...

Manoj Joshi Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation Some people think that the Biden era may see a reduction in the pushback that China has been facing. But the Chinese themselves are bracing for an intensification of that pressure and, indeed, a wider challenge. This is evident from the recent references to ‘National security’ in discussions in the higher echelons of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Not to forget, of course, the ramming through of the National Security Law in...

Safeguarding people’s health has been the global priority amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In Bhutan, emerging lessons show how nutrition and other aspects of health are intricately related to the management of food security during the current crisis, and beyond. The country’s leaders have used moral suasion alongside policy measures to demonstrate that good nutrition need not be a luxury. Attribution: Om Bhandari, “Safeguarding Food Self-Sufficiency in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from Bhu...

ORF Special Report No. 125, December 2020, Observer Research Foundation.     This special report was written before the 2020 United States presidential elections. Under the incoming Biden administration, the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan is likely to be more gradual and “responsible”, despite the President-elect being in favour of American troops exiting the war-weary country soon. In retrospect, Donald Trump’s insistence on pulling out all US troops from Afghanistan by Christ...

Updated: December 15, 2020 01:33 IST Taking forward the memory of the events part of cooperative vision of South Asia, says Vikram Doraiswami Share Article AAA Taking forward the memory of the events part of cooperative vision of South Asia, says Vikram Doraiswami The perpetrators of the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh have not yet been brought to justice for their action, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami. At an event organised by an Indian think tank on Monday, the env...