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    Swapna Kona    ·   15 Sep, 2007    ·    #2373    ·    Commentary    
    On 11 September 2007, Russia tested an aviation explosive device of the variety known as a thermo-baric device. The non-nuclear conventional bomb, the military name of which has not been disclosed as yet, was tested at an undisclosed location. H...
  • China and the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   14 Sep, 2007    ·    #2372    ·    Commentary    
    After over two years of intense negotiations, the civilian nuclear agreement between India and the US stands today, on the cusp of full operationalization. No matter the current domestic turmoil over the deal in India, the Chinese are clearly aw...
  • The 17th Party Congress of the CCP
    M Amarjeet Singh    ·   14 Sep, 2007    ·    #2371    ·    Commentary    
    According to media reports, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has decided to hold its 17th Party Congress in mid-October 2007. Since the crucial decision-making bodies of the Party were elected five years back in November 2002, this announcement...
  • Tit-for-Tat Missiles Tests by India and Pakistan
    Neha Kumar    ·   14 Sep, 2007    ·    #2370    ·    Commentary    
    India-Pakistan relations have been tense due to the conflict over Kashmir since Independence. Today their relations are marked by the efforts of both sides to settle differences and move beyond the Kashmir problem. It is important, however, to a...
  • Hyderabad Blasts: What do they Portend?
    Sujoyini Mondal    ·   07 Sep, 2007    ·    #2369    ·    Commentary    
    During the past few years, the area of operation of the foreign terrorist groups active in the country has gone beyond the traditional realm of hostility in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India to the economic hubs of southern India. The primary ...
  • Indo-US Nuclear Deal and Non-proliferation: Some Views from the US
    Gurmeet Kanwal    ·   07 Sep, 2007    ·    #2368    ·    Commentary    
    Non-proliferation ayatollahs the world over have been up in arms against the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Energy Cooperation Agreement. Policy and opinion makers in India readily accept that the Indo-US nuclear deal represents a major concession that h...
  • Train Services between India and Bangladesh: Some Security Concerns
    Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   03 Sep, 2007    ·    #2367    ·    Commentary    
    In May this year, India and Bangladesh agreed to launch a direct passenger train service between Dhaka and Kolkata, after a gap of 42 years - train services had been suspended since the 1965 war between India and Pakistan. In a trial run on the ...
  • The Hyderabad Bombers: Will Anyone Learn Anything?
    PR Chari    ·   03 Sep, 2007    ·    #2366    ·    Commentary    
    Wise men, they say, learn from others' experience; fools learn from their own experience. But, what can one say about a Government that, like the proverbial Bourbons of France, learns nothing and forgets nothing. These dour musings were...
  • The Meeting of Experts on Biological Weapons
       ·   31 Aug, 2007    ·    #2365    ·    Commentary    
    The Meeting of Experts (MX) for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) was held from 20 to 24 August 2007 in Geneva to discuss 'Ways and means to enhance national implementation, including enforcement of national legislation, str...
  • Bullets vs. Ballots: Foreign Policy Decision-Making in China and India
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   31 Aug, 2007    ·    #2364    ·    Commentary    
    The recent statement by a prominent politician, that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would have been shot with a single bullet for "bluffing" the nation over the Indo-US nuclear deal had he been the premier of China, has added a new dime...
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