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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s first budget on July 10 is expected to provide an insight into India’s global economic diplomacy. It should indicate the direction of policies on Foreign Direct Investment and on energy security
Gateway House speaks to Silah Fatah, an Iraqi Kurd living in Soran, a city in northern Iraq, close to Mosul and Kirkuk.
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Brazil is all set to host the 6th BRICS Summit from July 15. In light of the fact that most developing nations have concerns over the pro-western bent of the World Bank and the IMF, the BRICS initiative of setting up of a Development Bank needs to gain momentum and the nations should finalise the mandate on a priority basis
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Indian security establishments are closely monitoring developments in West Asia in the wake of the recent threat against India by the Islamic State and the Al-Qaeda. While the possibility of terror violence cannot be ruled out, careful attention needs to be given to the attempts to spread Wahhabi ideology in India
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Sameer Patil, Associate Fellow, National Security, Gateway House, was interviewed by Bloomberg Business Week about the vulnerabilites associated with the introduction of new softwares
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Amit Bhandari, Energy and Environment Fellow at Gateway House, analyses key issues in energy security which should be addressed in India’s budget.
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The recent sentences handed out to three Al Jazeera journalists show how far Egypt has moved away from the democratic ideals of the Tahrir Square protests. Egypt now shares space with North Korea, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea and Iran in Freedom House’s 2014 report
Neelam Deo, Director, Gateway House, outlines why this is a historic opportunity for a united Kurdistan, whether the ISIS violence will spread to other countries in the region, and provides an outlook into India's and the international interests in the region.
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The election of Salvador Sanchez Ceren, a leftist ex-guerilla fighter, as president of El Salvador, is a reflection of the maturity and inclusiveness of the Latin American democracies. With his compassionate and pro-poor policies, Ceren has the vision and compassion needed to reduce poverty and break the vicious cycle of crime and violence which has paralysed El Salvador
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The growing ISIS-driven violence in Iraq highlights India’s vulnerability to the turmoil in West Asia: we heavily depend on the region for our energy. To insulate the country’s energy security from the upheavals, India must urgently diversify its sources and types of fuel, and develop its own energy ecosystem