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  • Red Affairs
    Maoist Attack on the CRPF: Time for New Counter-strategies
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   15 Dec, 2014    ·    #4777    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The 1 December 2014 killing of 14 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) should invariably go down as one of the country's worst security force o...
  • Dhaka Discourse
    18th SAARC Summit: A Perspective from Bangladesh
    Delwar Hossain    ·   15 Dec, 2014    ·    #4776    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    After a three-year gap, leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) met in a Summit held in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 26-27 November 2014. It was an occasion to assess SAARC’s efforts to consolidate regionalism in So...
  • Strategic Space
    India-Russia Nuclear Vision Statement: See that it Delivers
    Manpreet Sethi    ·   15 Dec, 2014    ·    #4775    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    As expected, Russian President Valdimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi covered all the usual areas of cooperation during the former’s visit to New Delhi on 11 December, 2014. Russia has been India’ close partner over d...
  • China and the Uyghur Issue: Can the New Silk Route Really Help?
    Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy    ·   13 Dec, 2014    ·    #4774    ·    Commentary    
    Today, with the increasing threat of Islamist terrorism due to the rise and reach of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, sections of societies in Central Asia, South Asia, and West Asia are getting increasingly radicalised. Will China succeed i...
  • Pak-Afghan Reset: Will the Taliban and al Qaeda follow?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 Dec, 2014    ·    #4773    ·    Commentary    
    Following the visits of Pakistan’s National Security Advisor, Chief of Army Staff and the ISI Chief to Kabul, and then of the new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to Islamabad – all in space of last two months, there seems to be a posit...
  • J&K: Modi Couldn’t do a Vajpayee in SK Stadium
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   09 Dec, 2014    ·    #4772    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting in Srinagar on Monday (December 8) was not a routine election meeting. It was surely a significant one since BJP has never put up a show of strength in the capital city like this. Modi had chos...
  • Maritime Silk Route
    Decoding China's Silk Diplomacy at Sea
    Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy    ·   11 Dec, 2014    ·    #4771    ·    Commentary    
    China has proposed to revive the centuries-old ‘Silk Road of the Sea’ into a 21st century Maritime Silk Road (MSR). The MSR initiative has a clear strategic purpose and is a helpful channel for the Chinese grand strategy. It aims to ...
  • Eagle Eye
    India-US: Significance of the Second Modi-Obama Meet
    Chintamani Mahapatra    ·   11 Dec, 2014    ·    #4770    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    In less than four months, the new Prime Minister of India and US President Barack Obama will meet for their second summit in New Delhi. The first summit was the outcome of Obama’s initiative when he called the newly elected Prime Minister ...
  • Why India Needs an Outcome Budget for Defence
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   10 Dec, 2014    ·    #4769    ·    Commentary    
    Outcome budgets have emerged as the toast in the financial administration under the Union Government, as made evident recently in the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interactive session with the secretaries to the Government of India...
  • EU-India: Modi and Expectations of Change
    Tuva Julie Engebrethsen Smith    ·   10 Dec, 2014    ·    #4768    ·    Commentary    
    The EU-India bilateral partnership dates back to the 1960s, but it was at the 5th India-EU Summit at The Hague in 2004, that the relationship was upgraded to a ‘Strategic Partnership’, further enhancing ties. It is a relationship bui...
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