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  • Re-visioning the Vision for Northeast India: NER Vision 2020
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2639    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh unveiled the "Peace Progress and Prosperity in the North Eastern Region: Vision 2020" document on 2 July 2008 in New Delhi. The Prime Minister portrayed the northeastern region as the 'land of the risi...
  • Emerging Indo-Israel Relations
    Veena Tyagi    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2638    ·    Commentary    
    The Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aaron Abramovich, came to India on a three-day visit. He met the Indian External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, on 8 July 2008 and briefed him on the progress made with the Pa...
  • Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Where Do We Go From Here?
       ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2637    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 29 July 2008 Chair: Maj Gen (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee, Director, IPCS Speakers: Siddharth Varadarajan, Strategic Affairs Editor, The Hindu Ambassador Arundhati Ghose, Former Permanent Representative of...
  • Will the Nuclear Deal Hurt India's Foreign Policy?
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2636    ·    Commentary    
    Following the confidence vote on 22 July after the Left's withdrawal of support, and with the Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon meeting the IAEA Chief Mohamed ElBaradei in Vienna on 18 July to discuss India-specific Safeguards Agreem...
  • Acting in National Interest? ISI's role in Embassy Attack in Kabul
    Prashant Hosur    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2635    ·    Commentary    
    National security advisor, NK Narayanan has blamed the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) for planning the attacks on the Indian embassy in Kabul. He stated that the Indian government had intelligence about the involvement of the ISI in the attac...
  • Threat to Whistle Blowers in Bihar
    Kamla Singh    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2634    ·    Commentary    
    On 15 May 2008, Lalit Mehta, a social activist and whistle blower, was killed in Palamu district. Mehta was an activist of the Right to Food campaign and the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan. He was also the secretary of the Vikas Sahyog Kendra (VSK), a non-...
  • Biotechnology in India: Regulation of the Growing Industry
    Danielle Toth    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2633    ·    Commentary    
    The biotechnology industry has grown immensely in the 21st century and is likely to continue on this upward slope. Asia has significantly contributed to the expansion of this industry, and India in particular, has experienced this growth. An art...
  • Fishing in Troubled Waters: Tamil Nadu Fishermen and India-Sri Lanka Relations
    N Manoharan    ·   30 Jul, 2008    ·    #2632    ·    Commentary    
    The Tamil Nadu factor in India-Sri Lanka relations that had been quiet for long has come to the fore in the form of the fishermen issue. Frequent incidents of fishermen from Tamil Nadu getting shot in the India-Sri Lanka maritime boundary have e...
  • Fighting Naxals
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   29 Jul, 2008    ·    #2631    ·    Commentary    
    What led to the setting up of the Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College in Kanker, Chhattisgarh? Over the last few years, Chhattisgarh has witnessed an upsurge of Naxal activity and violence resulting in a dramatic increase in casual...
  • Bridging the Straits: Prospects of the India-Sri Lanka CEPA
    Satyajit Mohanty    ·   29 Jul, 2008    ·    #2630    ·    Commentary    
    India and Sri Lanka can send a powerful economic message by announcing a firm deadline to implement the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) at the Colombo SAARC meeting, which seeks to deepen existing economic agreements, widen e...
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