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  • Indo-Israel Defence Cooperation: A Step in the Right Direction
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   23 Dec, 2007    ·    #2447    ·    Commentary    
    On November 26, 2007, the Defence Minister AK Antony, while replying to a question in Lok Sabha, said that there is a proposal to develop advanced medium range surface-to-air missile in collaboration with Israel. This is in continuation with Ind...
  • Dantewada Jailbreak: Strategic Accomplishment of Naxal Designs
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   20 Dec, 2007    ·    #2446    ·    Commentary    
    In yet another incident of jailbreak a total of 299 inmates, including 110 Naxal activists, fled from the Dantewada jail in Chhattisgarh on 16 December. It may also be recalled here that on 13 November 2005, about 1,000 Maoists and their support...
  • Dealing with Adivasi Resentment in Assam
    Souvik Chatterji    ·   16 Dec, 2007    ·    #2445    ·    Commentary    
    At a time when India is struggling with terrorist activities and separatist movements, the resentment showed by the Adivasis of Assam by their destructive activities has created new concerns for the home departments of the states. The blast on t...
  • India Ballistic Missile Defense Capabilities and Future Threats
    Neha Kumar    ·   12 Dec, 2007    ·    #2444    ·    Commentary    
    India carried out a series of anti-ballistic missile tests recently starting with an exo-atmosheric anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system test on 12 November 2007. This was followed by an endo-atmospheric test of a Prithvi missile defense system o...
  • Malaysia's Ethnic Indians Demand
    Yogendra Singh    ·   12 Dec, 2007    ·    #2443    ·    Commentary    
    On 25 November 2007, the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF), a group of Hindu NGOs led a demonstration of some 10,000 ethnic Indians in Malaysia demanding the same rights and opportunities as ethnic Malays. Ethnic Indians comprise 8 per cent of...
  • Chinese Assertion along the South Vietnamese Coast
    Pankaj Kumar Jha    ·   12 Dec, 2007    ·    #2442    ·    Commentary    
    China fired a salvo recently by pronouncing the exploration rights to blocks 127 and 128 given to ONGC by Vietnam in 2006 as illegal. A diplomatic demarche was issued by the Chinese Embassy in Delhi. The rights allow for exploration of gas which...
  • Ethnic Nationalities and the Myanmar Question
       ·   12 Dec, 2007    ·    #2441    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the Meeting held at the IPCS on 27 November 2007 Members of the Delegation of the Ethnic Nationalities Council of Burma (ENC) Dr. Lian H Sakhong General Secretary, ENC Harn Yawnghwe Director, Euro-Burma Office and Advisor, ENC ...
  • Mekong-Ganga Cooperation Initiative: India's Underused Soft Power Tool
    Julien Levesque    ·   11 Dec, 2007    ·    #2440    ·    Commentary    
    Writing about the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation Initiative (MGCI) a few weeks after its creation, V Jayanth argued that a great "responsibility [rests] on New Delhi to make a success of this venture" (The Hindu, 28 November 2000). Now seven...
  • Strengthening the Right to Information
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   11 Dec, 2007    ·    #2439    ·    Commentary    
    It has been more than two years since the Right to Information Act (RTI) came into force in October 2005. Immediately after its enforcement, a concern was expressed that adequate efforts were not being made in official quarters to implement the ...
  • The Congress (I)'s China Connection
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   08 Dec, 2007    ·    #2438    ·    Commentary    
    The October visit of Congress (I) president Sonia Gandhi to China underlined the growing intensity of political interactions between India and China. However, it is also instructive to analyze this visit in terms of inter-party interactions. ...
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