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  • Hasina's India Visit
    Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury    ·   08 Jan, 2010    ·    #3039    ·    Commentary    
    The forthcoming visit in January to India of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be keenly watched. It has been a long awaited visit, as she has already been in office for a year. She has been circumspect in not rushing, at the ...
  • Will India Prepare For Space War?
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   07 Jan, 2010    ·    #3038    ·    Commentary    
    If the Defence Research and  Development Organisation (DRDO) has its way, India would soon edge  closer to preparing the ground for entering the domain of space war. The statement made by VK Saraswat, scientific advisor to the Indian d...
  • Politics, Accord and Steps Towards a Better Tomorrow
    Ashok Sharma    ·   05 Jan, 2010    ·    #3037    ·    Commentary    
    On 19 December at the Copenhagen climate summit, representatives of 192 nations struck a historic accord on the common goal of reducing global warming by two degrees. The tedious, politically maneuvered marathon summit of world leaders culminate...
  • Future Conflict Scenarios
    Gurmeet Kanwal    ·   04 Jan, 2010    ·    #3036    ·    Commentary    
    Though the year 2009 witnessed marginal improvement in India’s external security environment, internal security continued to deteriorate in view of the heightened activities of the Maoist-Naxalite terrorists. The unstable regional security...
  • Cambodia-China Relations and Recent Developments
    Tuli Sinha    ·   31 Dec, 2009    ·    #3035    ·    Commentary    
    Recently, Cambodia's decision to deport asylum seekers, who were in the process of applying for refugee status at the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is a reminder that Beijing's oppression of the Uig...
  • Politics of Obstruction and Confrontation
    Padmaja Murthy    ·   31 Dec, 2009    ·    #3034    ·    Commentary    
    In 2009, the focus in Nepal should have been on taking forward the peace process through consensus-building and writing a new inclusive constitution by 2010. Ironically, the dominant debate in Nepal signaled the politics of obstruction and confr...
  • Ghosts of War Haunt Sri Lanka
    N Manoharan    ·   30 Dec, 2009    ·    #3033    ·    Commentary    
    Ghosts of the recently concluded ethnic war continue to haunt Sri Lanka. Allegations of war crimes and human rights abuses during last stages of war are coming to the fore.   Former Army Chief, General Sarath Fonseka, who is curr...
  • First Indian Aerospace SEZ
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   29 Dec, 2009    ·    #3032    ·    Commentary    
    On the face of it, Hattaragi village in Belgaum district of northern Karnataka region, is an unlikely location for a high tech aerospace hub. Yet, Horatti, situated at a distance of  little over 30 kilometres from Belgaum city, on Golden Qu...
  • Airline Terror Plots: Lessons for India
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   29 Dec, 2009    ·    #3031    ·    Commentary    
    Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian national had managed to breach a very serious security layer surrounding the airline industry. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, when airlines were used as civilian missiles, the attempted bombin...
  • If Pakistan Fails
    Amit Gupta    ·   29 Dec, 2009    ·    #3030    ·    Commentary    
    Much of Washington’s AfPak strategy has been based on the idea that Pakistan needs to propped up from possible implosion.  US policy analysts also point out that one of the countries that would be most affected by this breakup would b...
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