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Munich Security Conference (MSC) failed to recognise the Core Global Issues By: Vijay Sardana IIMA Alumnus, Techno-legal & IPR Expert Advocate, Supreme Court of India & National Green Tribunal  @vijaysardana The root cause of the global security crisis is the double standards of those in power on the international stage and capturing key committees of the UN and other international bodies like WTO and World bank and not keen to ensure reform even after 80 years. At MSC, global leaders are debating different visions for the future international order, which are often abstract and theoretical. Unfortunately, the whole forum has become a platform to debate Russia and China in the new world order. The western powers are still unable to digest the fact that many more countries are better equipped to handle the global crisis because they are bigger democracies and have better experience managing human and environmental crises. Clash of competing visions: The whole focus of the ...

Defence Sector must fix gaps in Procurement & R&D Policies to ensure "Make in India" By: Vijay SARDANA IIMA Alumni, Techno-Legal & IPR Expert Advocate, Supreme Court of India and NGT The Honourable Prime Minister is keen to make India self-reliant on critical technologies. This is the most critical decision to ensure the sovereignty of the largest democracy in the world. The Make-in-India program was initiated to push this agenda. Like any other scheme, many companies took this initiative seriously and many started playing with the scheme and trying to project their imported products as “Make in India” by projecting incorrect information.  It is high time that the ‘Make-in-India’ evaluation process must be calibrated so that good companies really committed to India must get due recognition for their efforts and defence forces must also support this effort seriously.  Unfortunately, many trading companies have started claiming that they are doing indigenous man...