Important News of the Week

Fiscal CouncilThe demand of independent fiscal Council has onceagain come in the news due to deteriorating financialcondition of the Central Government. It is expectedthat the fiscal deficit in the current financial year isgoing to be around 7% which is much more thanthe expectation of the recent Budget.

Food Insecurityin India• The latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition

in the World (SOFI) report shows that India retains the dubious distinction of being the country with the largest population of food insecure people.

• Estimates presented in the report shows that the prevalence of food insecurity increased by 3.8 percentage points in India between 2014 and 2019. By 2019, 6.2 crore more people were living with food insecurity than the number in 2014.

Indo-Nepal Relations After a lot of heated debate between India and Nepal finally Nepalese Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli made a friendly gesture towards India by telephoning Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convey greetings on India’s Independence Day.

This was followed by a meeting of the India-Nepal Joint Project Monitoring Committee on recently chaired by the Indian Ambassador to Nepal and the Nepal Foreign Secretary.

Todays Topic of Discussion

Indian Foreign Policy

A Self-Reliant Foreign Policy-“Atma-Nirbhar Videsh Niti”

What is the relevance ofForeign Policyfor a Country?

What are the foundational pillars of Foreign Policy of India? Have we internalized the Philosophical values promoted in the rich Indian History.

What is the role of IFS in Foreign Policy?

What are the fundamental Issues in the Institutional setup of Indian Foreign Policy?

What are the different phases of Foreign Policy in India?

What were the immediate challenges of India’s Foreign Policy post-independence?

Immediately after taking the oath and becoming the Prime Minister of the Country Narendra Modi Government highlighted the Policy of Extended Neighborhood.

What is this Extended Neighborhood Policy and What is the relevance of this Policy?

There was a Gujral Doctrine in late 1990’s whose relevance is still acknowledged, and many analysts feel that this Extended Neighborhood Policy is revived GujralDoctrine. How do you See this?

It is being Said that Geoeconomics is becoming more dominant than Geopolitics especially when we see that there is an increasing trend of diplomatic relations less on political thoughts and more on economic benefit. What is your opinion about this?

India in the past and present also played a very dominant role in the peace promotor and a genuine arbitrator on International issues.

Sir you have also worked as a special envoy in brokering peace deal between Sudan and South Sudan. You also have a wide experience of more than 35 years. On that experience what you feel for India’s Justification for a permanent seat in Security Council.

What do you think about how the change in governments can impact the diplomatic relations between countries.

There was a term used in the news recently Called as Digital Non-Alignment Movement. Can you tell us the Difference between Non-Alignment and Digital Non-Alignment?

What is the relevance of this Policy of NAM in the present Context.

There is widely used term in Foreign Policy called as Soft Diplomacy which is very strongly promoted by the Modi Government. You also worked as the Chairperson of Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Can you please tell us- What are the features of this Soft Diplomacy?

In Contemporary times when the Countries like China and Pakistan are busy is muscle flexing and hard diplomacy, what do you think about the relevance of Soft Diplomacy for India is?

Recently S. Jaishankar, the Indian foreign Minister made a statement that presently it is the most Serious Situation for Indo-China post 1962.We had a policy of Panchasheel for China. What is this Policy and what is the relevance of this policy in today’s context?

What is the Geopolitical relevance of Indo-Pacific Region especially in the context of emergence of the debating platforms like Shangri la Dialogue and Raisina dialogue?

India’s Foreign Policy Stand for Pakistan is Terror and Talks cannot go together. What is the relevance of Strategic Restraint Policy for Indo-Pak relations?

Currently the Narendra Modi Govt. talked about a foreign policy based on the philosophy of “Panchamrita”.

How Panchamrita will be different from Pachasheel.

What are the new global challenges in front of Indian foreign Policy?

What is the relevance of this Policy of NAM in the present Context.

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