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  • Peace in Assam: The Current Issues and Implications
    Upasana Mahanta    ·   09 Mar, 2007    ·    #2235    ·    Commentary    
    The road to peace in Assam has hit a dead-end with the government and United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) failing to find a level playing ground to facilitate a dialogue. ULFA has made it clear that they would come to the negotiating table o...
  • The Demilitarization Politics in J&K- Part 1
    D Suba Chandran    ·   08 Mar, 2007    ·    #2234    ·    Commentary    
    During the last one month, there has been an upsurge in the demilitarization debate in Jammu and Kashmir. A section within the Kashmir Valley has been advocating demilitarization. The significance of this upsurge is that it emanates from the gov...
  • Collateral Damage in Afghanistan: A Blow to the Battle for Hearts and Minds
    Srinjoy Bose    ·   08 Mar, 2007    ·    #2233    ·    Commentary    
    Amidst the crisis in Afghanistan, a single civilian death can create scores of sworn foes. NATO and U.S. forces are often accused of firing upon Afghan citizens in the fear of a possible attack by them. Though officials say the shootings are per...
  • Interpreting China's Defence Budget
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   08 Mar, 2007    ·    #2232    ·    Commentary    
    China has been known to spend huge amounts on defence. Yet the tenacity with which this is being done has unnerved defence analysts all over the world. The recent announcement by China that it would raise its defence budget by 17.8 percent t...
  • Address Food Security in the India-EU Partnership
    DA Wiwik Dharmiasih    ·   05 Mar, 2007    ·    #2231    ·    Commentary    
    In an interview early March, JNU Professor and expert on India-EU relations, R K Jain stated that what made the India-EU Strategic Partnership special is the fact that it was a "long-term cooperative framework where meaningful dialogue will...
  • Dawn of a University in Rajouri
    Priyashree Andley    ·   05 Mar, 2007    ·    #2230    ·    Commentary    
    Rajouri district situated 154 kilometers from Jammu is bounded by Udhampur in the north, the Line of Control (LoC) in the south, Pulwama in the west and Poonch in the north. In the shift in the Indo-Pak dialogue with the emphasis on 'making ...
  • New Conflict Dynamics in the Naxal Movement
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   05 Mar, 2007    ·    #2229    ·    Commentary    
    If the September 2004 merger of several Naxal groups signaled a new beginning in relation to the course of the Maoist Movement in India, January-February 2007 when the CPI (Maoist) conducted its 9th Party Congress, signals yet another phase in t...
  • The Madhesi Issue in Nepal
    K Yhome    ·   02 Mar, 2007    ·    #2228    ·    Commentary    
    The recent turmoil in Madhes (or the Terai plains bordering India) was a stark reflection of the challenges confronting the restructuring process in Nepal. It was also a reminder to the current interim government that the problems in Nepal are n...
  • India, Russia and China: New Steps in Trilateral Cooperation
    Satyajit Mohanty    ·   02 Mar, 2007    ·    #2227    ·    Commentary    
    The idea of an institutional forum bringing together India, China and Russia has been contemplated since the end of the Cold War. This proposal was first mooted in 1998 by the then Russian Premier Yevgeny Primakov. The Chinese, who were initiall...
  • The Nepali Influx in Northeast India
    Chiranjib Haldar    ·   01 Mar, 2007    ·    #2226    ·    Commentary    
    Social scientists have attributed the settlement of Nepalis in Northeast India, since the 1820s, to their migratory nature, either in search of economic opportunities or of grazing lands for cattle crucial to their primary vocation of milk produ...
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