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  • Brunei in India's Foreign Policy
    Pranav Kumar    ·   19 May, 2008    ·    #2569    ·    Commentary    
    The upcoming visit of the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam, Hassanal Bolkiah, is expected to identify some basic areas of mutual interest and develop a strategy for future cooperation. This is the second visit to India by the Sultan of Brunei during ...
  • Tackling Extremism in Purulia and Bankura
    Souvik Chatterji    ·   16 May, 2008    ·    #2567    ·    Commentary    
    Purulia and Bankura are among the most underdeveloped districts of West Bengal. They are located in the western part of the state and share a common border with Jharkhand. Both districts have been prone to Naxalite movement in the past. The kill...
  • Saga of Indian Rice to Bangladesh
    Harun ur Rashid    ·   16 May, 2008    ·    #2566    ·    Commentary    
    Following the cyclone Sidr that hit Bangladesh on 15 November 07, sympathies and assistance poured into Bangladesh for the victims from its neighbours and the international community at large. India's External Affairs Minister came to Bangla...
  • Getting it Right: Rereading India's Nuclear Doctrine
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   16 May, 2008    ·    #2565    ·    Commentary    
    The draft nuclear doctrine of 1999, coming out as it did in the wake of the Kargil conflict, acquired certain notoriety through its unforgettable formulation: "any nuclear attack on India and its forces shall result in punitive retaliation ...
  • Nuclear India's Weapons of Peace: Ten Years after Pokhran-II
    Gurmeet Kanwal    ·   10 May, 2008    ·    #2564    ·    Commentary    
    Ten years ago, after conducting five nuclear tests on 11 and 13 May 1998, India declared itself a state with nuclear weapons. While many reasons like a quest for world power status were attributed to former Prime Minister Vajpayee's decision...
  • SCO Stands for Co-domination
    Farhod Mirzabaev    ·   10 May, 2008    ·    #2563    ·    Commentary    
    The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a regional grouping in Central Asia that deals with security issues and politico-military cooperation. It includes the five Central Asian states, Russia and China as its full members and India, Paki...
  • A New Gorkhaland State: How Justified is the Demand?
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   10 May, 2008    ·    #2562    ·    Commentary    
    The famed and famous honeymoon haunt of Darjeeling is again in the news, this time for a wrong reason. The Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) almost barred the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police from entering Darjeeling recently th...
  • Bypassing the Malacca Straits
    Julien Levesque    ·   06 May, 2008    ·    #2561    ·    Commentary    
    The Straits of Malacca, the shortest sea route from East and Southeast Asia to the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, has increasingly suffered from congestion as Asia's integration in international trade has deepened. ...
  • Needed a Strategic Partnership with Saudi Arabia
    Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   06 May, 2008    ·    #2560    ·    Commentary    
    Pranab Mukherjee's two-day (19-20 April 2008) visit to Saudi Arabia was aimed at deepening the bilateral strategic partnership and taking Indo-Saudi ties to new heights. King Abdullah and Mukherjee pledged to boost strategic, commercial and ...
  • Contours of India's Cultural Diplomacy in Southeast Asia
    Pranav Kumar    ·   06 May, 2008    ·    #2559    ·    Commentary    
    In an endeavour to strengthen its relationship with Southeast Asia, India has actively used culture as an important instrument of its Look East Policy (LEP). Unlike in the past when cultural diplomacy was largely viewed as India's veiled eff...
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