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              Domestic threats more serious than external ones: Ansari 
              
            
            
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              New Delhi: 
              Domestic threats "loom large" in the list of threats facing the 
              nation, apart from external security issues, Vice President 
              Mohammad Hamid Ansari said here Wednesday. 
               
              "My own view is that in the typology of threat, domestic threats 
              to policy are looming very large," said Ansari, after releasing a 
              book "In the National Interest: A Strategic Foreign Policy for 
              India". 
               
              The book is authored by former diplomats Rajiv Kumar, currently 
              FICCI secretary general, and Santosh Kumar. The function was 
              jointly organised by the Indian Council for Research on 
              International Economic Relations and the external affairs 
              ministry. 
               
              Ansari said that if India is not able to manage the domestic 
              threats, then it will impact the country's external thrust. 
               
              He also expressed worry that India was scoring less on the front 
              of technological research.  
              
                
              
              "No country can call itself a major 
              power unless it is backed by sufficient innovative technological 
              research," said the vice president.  
              
              
                
              
                
              
                
                
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