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  • Obama-mania: Iran is Not Invited
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   19 Nov, 2008    ·    #2736    ·    Commentary    
    Republican President George W Bush hands over the reigns of the US administration to Democratic President-elect Barack Obama in January 2009. The electoral victory of Obama has been heralded on his campaign tagline of "time for change."...
  • Asymmetric Capabilities of China's Military
    Sanjay Kumar    ·   19 Nov, 2008    ·    #2735    ·    Commentary    
    Over the past twenty years, the world has witnessed a resurgent China - seemingly unhappy with single power dominance - taking long and steady strides towards becoming the world's next superpower. Not just its economy, China's military t...
  • Bollywood in Southeast Asia
    Yogendra Singh    ·   19 Nov, 2008    ·    #2734    ·    Commentary    
    The Indian International Film Academy, the Indian equivalent of the Oscars organized its 2008 award ceremony in Bangkok in June 2008. It is the third gala event organized in the last six years in Southeast Asia by the Indian film industry in col...
  • Hindu Terror: A More Serious Threat
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   19 Nov, 2008    ·    #2733    ·    Commentary    
    The arrest of Lieutenant Colonel Srikant Prasad Purohit, a serving army officer in connection with the 29 September Malegaon blasts is a serious issue. The possible involvement of Hindu groups and individuals in terror attacks is a shocking reve...
  • Barack Obama: From Weary Past to Wary Future
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   19 Nov, 2008    ·    #2732    ·    Commentary    
    The whole world is euphoric following the US Presidential election in which first-term Senator, Barack Obama, stole the show in swashbuckling style, breaking with his country's racial past. His triumph is being regarded as the end of the Civ...
  • ASEAN Fails to Deliver Again
    Vibhanshu Shekhar & Margaret Brooke Beasley    ·   19 Nov, 2008    ·    #2731    ·    Commentary    
    On 15 October 2008, troops from Cambodia and Thailand opened fire at each other, letting loose tensions which have been building up ever since the UNESCO designated an 11th century temple at Preah Vihar on their border as a world heritage site i...
  • Guarding against Police Brutality
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   10 Nov, 2008    ·    #2730    ·    Commentary    
    One of the regular complaints against the Indian police forces relates to the use of third-degree methods and brutality against suspects and under-trials for eliciting information and confessions. They often result in grievous injuries being inf...
  • Review of 2008 US Elections: Winners and Losers
    Mohammed Badrul Alam    ·   10 Nov, 2008    ·    #2729    ·    Commentary    
    Barack Obama, the 47-year old first-term Democratic Party Senator from Illinois and the first African-American Presidential candidate of a major political party, has defied conventional wisdom to become the next President of the most powerful na...
  • Global Economic Crisis and India
    Narendra Kumar Tripathi    ·   10 Nov, 2008    ·    #2728    ·    Commentary    
    The world is facing the spectre of economic recession. The global economic crisis, having its origins in the sub-prime crisis in the US, is threatening to unravel the world's financial structure. According to the Bank of England, the global ...
  • Hindraf and the Indian Diaspora in Malaysia
    Om Prakash    ·   09 Nov, 2008    ·    #2727    ·    Commentary    
    The Malaysian Governments ban on the non-governmental Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), branding it as a threat to national security has raised a number of issues and concern regarding Indian community residing in Malaysia. Under sections 3 a...
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