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  • Naxal Movement: A Review of the Planning Commission's Expert Committee Report
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   18 Jun, 2008    ·    #2599    ·    Commentary    
    In May 2006, the Planning Commission appointed an expert committee headed by D Bandopadhyay, a retired IAS officer instrumental in dealing with the Naxalites in West Bengal in the 1970s along with Prakash Singh, former DGP of Uttar Pradesh and a...
  • Whither the Global Food Crisis? Finding Answers at the Rome Food Summit
    Sonali Huria    ·   16 Jun, 2008    ·    #2598    ·    Commentary    
    Mounting global alarm over food scarcity and ballooning prices finally brought world leaders together at the recently concluded Rome Summit on 'World Food Security' organized by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from 3...
  • China's Cyber Warfare
    Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   16 Jun, 2008    ·    #2597    ·    Commentary    
    China's intensified cyber warfare against India is becoming a serious threat to national security. The desire to possess 'electronic dominance' over India has compelled Chinese hackers to attack many crucial Indian websites and over ...
  • An Inquiry into Suicide Terrorism: Psychological Perspectives
    Kanica Rakhra    ·   13 Jun, 2008    ·    #2596    ·    Commentary    
    In 2007, there were more than 280 suicide attacks all over the world. Used typically as a weapon of psychological warfare to affect a larger public audience, most of these attacks have taken place in countries with a heavy presence of US and all...
  • Daulat Beg Oldi: Taking Wing Again
    Prashant Dikshit    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2595    ·    Commentary    
    China's purported "unhappiness" at the landing in late May of a AN-32 transport craft of Indian Air Force (IAF) at Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO), is quite perplexing. During the flight the crews had adhered to all canons of operating on in...
  • Pakistan's Problems: Nuclear Fallout?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2594    ·    Commentary    
    The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), in its recent Special Dispatch (http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD195308), reproduced an article written by Pervez Hoodbhoy, Professor of Nuclear Physics at Qaed-e-Azam University in I...
  • Singapore as a Gateway for Indian Companies
    Pranav Kumar    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2593    ·    Commentary    
    In recent times, Indian companies have increasingly used Singapore as a springboard to enter the world market. The number of Indian companies operating from Singapore has doubled during the last five years from 1,200 in 2002 to 2,800 by the end ...
  • The Myth of 'Weapons of Peace'
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2592    ·    Commentary    
    Celebrations attending the tenth anniversary of Pokhran II were unsurprisingly muted. This projected India as a responsible nuclear power, while having internal political utility of denying credit to the current opposition party for tests conduc...
  • New Terror Trails in Northeast India
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2591    ·    Commentary    
    The states of Northeast India especially Assam, Manipur and Nagaland have over the years witnessed an increased spate of violence and terror owing to their various homegrown insurgencies. Outfits such as the National Socialist Council of Nagalan...
  • Environmental Dimensions of Conflict and Disaster
       ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2590    ·    Commentary    
    Report of IPCS Presentation held on 29 May 2008 Speaker: Muralee Thummarukudy, Operations Manager, United Nations Environmental Programme Today the environment has emerged as an important factor in conflicts and disasters. First, all c...
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