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  • IPCS Debate
    Sri Lanka and the 13th Amendment: Welcome Changes in India’s Policy
    Prof. V. Suryanarayan    ·   06 Jul, 2013    ·    #4022    ·    Commentary    
    India is committed to achieving a bright future for the Sri Lankan Tamil community in a united Sri Lanka, in which all citizens can live in dignity, equality, and self-respect. In furtherance of this objective, India would work for a durable pol...
  • Myanmar: The New Tourism Brand
    Aparupa Bhattacherjee    ·   03 Jul, 2013    ·    #4021    ·    Commentary    
    Recently, the Myanmar government revealed a seven-year master plan in collaboration with Asian Development Bank and Norwegian government, worth USD500 million to help the country upgrade its competiveness in tourism. This plan charts 38 developm...
  • Iran: What Does Rouhani Bring to the Table?
    Somya Chhabra    ·   03 Jul, 2013    ·    #4020    ·    Commentary    
    Hassan Rouhani’s election as the seventh president of Iran amongst a host of five other conservative candidates, many of them close to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, has made the 2013 Presidential elections a landmark. Not only has...
  • China: The Snowden Advantage
    Rana Divyank Chaudhary    ·   03 Jul, 2013    ·    #4019    ·    Commentary    
    What significance do Edward Snowden’s actions have for China? How opposed in reality, are Beijing’s and Washington’s positions on the issues of whistle-blowing or information security?   A Level Battlefield Edwa...
  • How Peaceful is South Asia: A Review of the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2013
    Barana Waidyatilake    ·   02 Jul, 2013    ·    #4018    ·    Commentary    
    The Global Peace Index (GPI) 2013 identifies South Asia as the least peaceful region in the world. Though the region had, as a whole, displayed a slight increase in peacefulness since 2010 when peacefulness was at its lowest, the current level o...
  • IPCS Special Commentary
    South Korea and China: Park’s Visit and After
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   02 Jul, 2013    ·    #4017    ·    Commentary    
    In her recent visit to China, South Korean President Park Geun-hyu emphasised the pivotal role of China in determining the security and economic architecture of Northeast Asia and her visit was an apparently successful attempt to connect with Ch...
  • Myanmar: The Economics of Trafficking
    Asma Masood    ·   01 Jul, 2013    ·    #4016    ·    Commentary    
    Trafficking of Kachin women and children is emerging as a serious crisis. Kachin Women’s Association Thailand’s latest report, Pushed To The Brink (June 2013), updates on trafficking of Kachin women and girls amidst renewed conflict ...
  • China: Child Abduction and Trafficking
    Namrata Hasija    ·   30 Jun, 2013    ·    #4015    ·    Commentary    
    China National Radio reported in June that around 200,000 children disappear every year. Only 0.1 per cent of them are found and returned to their families. An art exhibition was organised on 1 June 2013 by Li Yueling, volunteers working for the...
  • Disaster Mis-Management: Nature’s Fury and Our Failure
    D Suba Chandran    ·   27 Jun, 2013    ·    #4014    ·    Commentary    
    Let us get our questions correct in analysing disaster management. Do the natural disasters kill more? Or our failure to manage the disasters increases the casualty rate? Any analysis of disaster management in our part of the world – enti...
  • J&K: Mr PM you failed to talk peace
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   26 Jun, 2013    ·    #4013    ·    Commentary    
    After taking stock of the developments of Tuesday, it won’t be an exaggeration to say that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s sixth visit to Jammu and Kashmir was ill timed. On the face of it, the visit is to “celebrate” the...
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