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  • Notorious “Golden Triangle”: India’s Golden Opportunity?
    Atom Sunil Singh    ·   11 Feb, 2009    ·    #2806    ·    Commentary    
    The Golden Triangle is an area of around 350,000 sq. kms. that overlaps the mountain regions of Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan Province of China. The Golden Triangle is infamous for being one of the most extensive opium-producing area...
  • Bangladesh-India Maritime Boundary
    Harun ur Rashid    ·   11 Feb, 2009    ·    #2805    ·    Commentary    
    The Bangladesh-India maritime boundary has been pending since 1974. Since the waters are not delimited in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh cannot explore and exploit certain areas because they are disputed. No foreign company would be willing to expl...
  • India and the US in the Greater Middle East
    Rekha Chakravarthi    ·   11 Feb, 2009    ·    #2804    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 2 February 2009 Chair: PR Chari, Research Professor, IPCS  Speaker: Amb. Teresita Schaffer, Director, South Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies   Ambassador Teresita Scha...
  • Bangladesh Elections and the Future of Indo-Bangladesh Relations
    Sandeep Bhardwaj    ·   11 Feb, 2009    ·    #2803    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 21 January 2009 Chair: Maj. Gen. (retd.) Dipankar Banerjee, IPCS  Speaker: Maj. Gen. (retd.) ANM Muniruzzaman, President, Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies, Dhaka Dipankar Banerjee&nb...
  • Lessons from Lankan Military Successes
    Sripathi Naryanan    ·   09 Feb, 2009    ·    #2802    ·    Commentary    
    On 2 January, Sri Lankan armed forces stormed into the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s (LTTE) de-facto capital of Killinochi. This was soon followed by the recapture of another district town, Mullaitivu, in the Tamil-majority Northern Pro...
  • Naxal Attack in Gadchiroli: A Sign of Strength or Weakness?
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   09 Feb, 2009    ·    #2801    ·    Commentary    
    In a massive setback to the Maharashtra government’s counter-Naxal campaign, particularly in its eastern belt, a group of over 150 Naxals laid an ambush on a police party near the Markegaon village in Gadchiroli district bordering Chhattisga...
  • China and Pakistan: Relationship in a Bottle
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   09 Feb, 2009    ·    #2800    ·    Commentary    
    The recent remark by Pakistan Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, that Pakistan had given the Chinese special envoy He Yafei a “blank cheque” in representing Pakistan in discussions with India can be viewed from multiple perspectiv...
  • Pakistan and Obama
    Tanya Saira George    ·   09 Feb, 2009    ·    #2799    ·    Commentary    
    While the world tuned in to Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony in the US in the hope that the next few years would mark the beginning of change and a semblance of peace, Pakistanis in general appear to have no expectations from the convent...
  • Indonesia’s Foreign and Security Policy
    Jasmeet Kaur    ·   09 Feb, 2009    ·    #2798    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: Amb Navrekha Sharma, Former Indian Ambassador to Indonesia Speaker: Theo L Sambuaga, Member of Indonesian Parliament Discussant: Prof Baladas Ghoshal, Visiting Professor Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi A...
  • Myanmar’s Bid for SAARC Membership
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   03 Feb, 2009    ·    #2797    ·    Commentary    
    Mani Shankar Aiyar, Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), often comments that Southeast Asia begins from Northeast India, and South Asia begins in Myanmar. It is useful therefore, to examine Myanmar’s bid to enter S...
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