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  • Mining Industry in Indonesia: Obstacles to Foreign Direct Investments
    Harnit Kaur Kang    ·   03 Jul, 2009    ·    #2899    ·    Commentary    
    BHP Billiton, a leviathan mining company, in early June 2009, announced its plans to lay off all 450 of its workers, at its coal project in Sungai Maruwai, Indonesia. This year has seen several foreign companies including Australia Oriental Mine...
  • Myanmar-China Energy Engagement : Implications for India
    Tuli Sinha    ·   29 Jun, 2009    ·    #2898    ·    Commentary    
    China recently announced the construction of oil and gas pipelines through Myanmar into its Southwestern Yunnan Province to start by September this year. What is the strategic importance of this energy project? Will this increase Chinese influen...
  • BRIC Summit : An Assessment
    Gunjan Singh    ·   29 Jun, 2009    ·    #2897    ·    Commentary    
    Leaders of the four BRIC nations, Brazil, Russia, India and China, met in Yekaterinburg, Russia on 16 June 2009. This was the first BRIC Summit and Russia was the host country. Next year the summit is scheduled to take place in Brazil. The count...
  • Gorshkov Spurs Indian Navy To Look Beyond Russia
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   29 Jun, 2009    ·    #2896    ·    Commentary    
    The simmering controversy over the cost escalation insisted upon by Russia for retrofitting the 44,750-tonne Kiev class aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov has spurred the Indian Navy to look beyond Russia to meet its futuristic requirements. Russ...
  • State Government Rules Out Talks Against the Maoists: The Right Step?
    Souvik Chatterji    ·   24 Jun, 2009    ·    #2895    ·    Commentary    
    When Central Forces started the operation at Lalgarh Police Station on 20 June 2009, the West Bengal Government ruled out any talks with the Maoists. The confrontation between the Maoists in Jhitka village in West Bengal and the Central Forces is ...
  • Red Faces The Redder: Operation Lalgarh
    Uddipan Mukherjee    ·   24 Jun, 2009    ·    #2894    ·    Commentary    
    Abjuring sophistry,Plato in his book “The Republic” says that if the form of government contradicts the character of men making the State, then it is bound to be a failure. It would be tautological to say that West Bengal is witnessi...
  • The US and the CTBT
    Priyanka Subramaniam    ·   15 Jun, 2009    ·    #2893    ·    Commentary    
    In 1996, when President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), he called it the "longest sought, hardest fought prize in the history of arms control.” While Clinton introduced the CTBT in the Senate for ratification, t...
  • From ‘No First Use’ to ‘No Nuclear Use’
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   12 Jun, 2009    ·    #2892    ·    Commentary    
    ‘Resolve’ is cardinal to ensure nuclear deterrence. If the ‘will’ to use nuclear weapons is seen to be lacking, this would impact adversely on deterrence. The Draft Nuclear Doctrine encapsulated this principle thus, “...
  • Indus Waters Treaty-II: For Better Indus Waters Governance
    D Suba Chandran    ·   10 Jun, 2009    ·    #2891    ·    Commentary    
    The recent annual meeting between the Indus Waters Commissioners of India and Pakistan ended with same complaints from Islamabad and the almost regular defence from New Delhi. Though Baglihar and Kishenganga appear to be the main reason for the co...
  • Pakistan Army’s Complex Counter-Militancy Strategy
    Rahul Bhonsle    ·   10 Jun, 2009    ·    #2890    ·    Commentary    
    The Pakistan Army’s counter-militancy strategy has remained largely an enigma. In the past, the Army has been reluctant to engage in classic counterinsurgency operations despite the spread of rebellion across vast tracts of territory in the ...
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