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  • National Security Adviser: Reviewing the Institution
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   05 Nov, 2008    ·    #2719    ·    Commentary    
    The present National Security Adviser (NSA), MK Naryanan has often been in the news. He helped wrap up the nuclear deal with the US and went to China for border talks with his counterpart. In the wake of his trip to Srinagar, the Governor's ...
  • Afghanistan's Opium Bane: Contesting America's 'Zero-tolerance' Strategy
    Sonali Huria    ·   05 Nov, 2008    ·    #2718    ·    Commentary    
    The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in its latest Afghanistan Opium Poppy Survey 2008 has stated that opium cultivation in Afghanistan has fallen by 19 per cent "to 157,000 hectares, compared to the historic high-water mar...
  • China's Investment in Indochina: A Conscious Choice
    Hayoun Ryou    ·   05 Nov, 2008    ·    #2717    ·    Commentary    
    During the last ten years, China has consciously engaged countries located in its two bordering peninsulas - the Indochinese and the Korean. In both cases, economic relations, in general, and investment, in particular, have been used as an impor...
  • East Asia Floats its Own OECD
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   05 Nov, 2008    ·    #2716    ·    Commentary    
    The 16 member states of the East Asia Summit (EAS), asserting their collective economic weight, formally announced the creation of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in June 2008. The institute essentially reflects an att...
  • India-Sri Lanka Relations in the Context of the SAARC Summit
       ·   05 Nov, 2008    ·    #2715    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 29 September 2008 Chair: Amb Salman Haidar Speaker: HE Mr CR Jayasinghe, High Commissioner, Sri Lanka Salman Haidar This discussion is being held at a time of conspicuous changes in Sri Lanka, s...
  • China's Pakistan Quandary
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   23 Oct, 2008    ·    #2714    ·    Commentary    
    Following Pakistani tradition, President Asif Ali Zardari made his first state visit to China from 14-17 October. In late September, Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani too had made his first official visit abroad to China. What e...
  • China: A Rising Threat in Space
    Sanjay Kumar    ·   23 Oct, 2008    ·    #2713    ·    Commentary    
    On 27 September 2008 China reached another milestone in its space programme when a Chinese taikonaut, Zhai Zhigang, ventured out of the spacecraft, Shenzhou-7, and performed a 30 minute-long spacewalk. Shortly after the taikonaut returned from t...
  • MNS Attack on North Indians: Another Face of Terrorism
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   23 Oct, 2008    ·    #2712    ·    Commentary    
    The attack on North Indians on 19 October in Mumbai and Thane by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) is a ghastly tale about the degeneration of the Indian political and social system. This is not lumpenism, as many in the media and political l...
  • Need to Re-examine FDI Policy for India's Defence Industry
    Laxman Kumar Behera    ·   23 Oct, 2008    ·    #2711    ·    Commentary    
    The Indian Ministry of Finance (MoF) recently rejected a proposal of the Mahindra Defence Systems (MDS) to form a joint venture (JV) company in India with the UK's largest defence company, BAE Systems. The JV proposal, based on equity owners...
  • The Pay Commission Outcome as Opportunity
    Ali Ahmed    ·   16 Oct, 2008    ·    #2710    ·    Commentary    
    There has been an attempt to generate a controversy around the military's propositioning the government on raising its emoluments and addressing the perceived decline in status. Inspired leaks have tried to bring into question the sense of p...
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