India-U.S. Tech Agenda: smart cities
Nishith Acharya, Senior Fellow at American Progress, explains how Indian IT capabilities can use American expertise with smart cities to solve many problems affecting urban India
Chuck Hagel in India: what to expect
U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel arrives in Delhi on August 7 for a three-day visit. Sameer Patel, Associate National Security Fellow at Gateway House, outlines the three priorities that will figure high on the agenda and assesses the India- U.S. defence relationship.
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India-U.S. Security Dialogue
Sameer Patil, Associate National Security Fellow at Gateway House comments on U.S. Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel’s visit to India. India and the U.S. are likely to discuss military deals worth over Rs 20,000 crore and Mr Hagel s also expected to take defence cooperation beyond military hardware sales.
The Gaza Conflict
India has voted alongwith other countries in favour of a UNHRC probe into Israel's offensive on Gaza. This does not signal a significant change in the India-Israel relationship, which is based on an annual bilateral trade of $6 billion. especially in defence equipment. New Delhi is now Tel Aviv's single largest arms buyer. Gateway House brings you a series of special reports and analyses on India and the Gaza conflict. Given our conflicting strategic interests in the West Asia region, there are no easy choices to be made.
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WTO deal: can India now reframe power equations of globalisation?
Gateway House's Senior Gandhi Peace Fellow Rajni Bakshi's article on the developments at the WTO written for the Gateway House website was republished in the online news site Firstpost
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The BRICS bank is born out of politics
Gateway House's Co-founder and Executive Director Manjeet Kripalani's blog on the BRICS bank for The Financial Times was quoted in an article in the Forbes magazine. In her piece, Ms Kripalani had argued that there was a strong case for the bank to be headquartered in Mumbai
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Poll pledges and budget realities
If Budget 2014 is used as a reference point to examine how closely the Modi government kept to its election promises, it is evidently not easy to extirpate the old ways of doing business. This is clear, for example, in the punitive capital gains tax rate on debt mutual funds. Budget 2015 must correct the anomalies
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The curious case of NSA & Indo-US relations
Neelam Deo, Director of Gateway House was quoted in an article on the Chinese online news magazine Ltaa.com on the India-U.S relationship. The article looks at the future course of the bilateral under the charge of PM Modi
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Nepal Enthralled by Visit of India Premier, Who Hits ‘the Right Notes’
Manjeet Kripalani, Co-founder and Executive Director of Gateway House was quoted in an article in The New York Times on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Nepal. This was the first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister to Nepal in 17 years
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India-Nepal: A Himalayan opportunity
An article written by Amit Bhandari, Energy and Environment Fellow at Gateway House was republished in the online newsmagazine The Political Indian. The article examines the possibilities of collaboration between India-Nepal in the field hydropower generation