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  • Obama and the North Korean Nuclear Programme
    Hayoun Ryou    ·   24 Nov, 2008    ·    #2739    ·    Commentary    
    Barack Obama's victory may bring new dimensions to handling the North Korean nuclear crisis. Though the goal, 'denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula' is the same for both Republicans and Democrats, Obama's North Korea policy would ...
  • Child Soldiers of the Naxal Movement
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   24 Nov, 2008    ·    #2738    ·    Commentary    
    The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child categorically prohibits involving children in war operations. Despite international conventions, however, minors continue to be used as soldiers in military conflicts around the world. The Naxal movem...
  • Why India Should Look Forward to the 'Change' in America
    Avinash Godbole    ·   24 Nov, 2008    ·    #2737    ·    Commentary    
    There has been much discussion on the telephone call US President-elect, Barack Obama, did not make to Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. After his election, Obama had called many heads of state including Pakistan's President, Asif Ali Z...
  • 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...
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