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  • North Korea's Efforts To Weaponise Bird Flu
    Ajay Lele    ·   19 May, 2006    ·    #2014    ·    Commentary    
    When it seemed that the spread of bird flu virus has considerably reduced in many regions of the world, the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) or MI6 has made a sensational disclosure that North Korea is trying to weaponise the bird flu v...
  • Pakistan: New Strands of Sectarianism
    Alok Bansal    ·   12 May, 2006    ·    #2013    ·    Commentary    
    The recent carnage at Nishtar Park in Karachi on 11 April 2006 killed over 50 people, including many religious leaders and left over 100 injured. The bomb blast occurred at a congregation to celebrate Milad-e-Nabi - the birth of Prophet Mohammad...
  • China Comes Closer
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   11 May, 2006    ·    #2012    ·    Commentary    
    The Qinghai-Tibet Railway (QTR) was opened to unmanned trial operations on 1 May 2006 and China became the proud owner of the highest railway line in the world, overtaking Peru. Built on the 'Roof of the World' and zigzagging across 5,00...
  • Democracy & Development In Maldives
       ·   10 May, 2006    ·    #2011    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Hon. Ibrahim Hussain Zaki (Vice-President and Shadow Foreign Minister of the Maldivian Democratic Party) Discussant: Amb. Lalit Mansingh Lalit Mansingh Ibrahim Zaki has been the principle interlocutor between India and Mald...
  • Political Polarisation in Bangladesh
    Swati Parashar    ·   09 May, 2006    ·    #2010    ·    Commentary    
    The political polarisation between the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Awami League (AL) has caused extensive political and material damage besides diverting the attention of law enforcement agencies from pursuing the terrorists and e...
  • Promoting Strategic and Missile Stability in Southern Asia
       ·   09 May, 2006    ·    #2008    ·    Commentary    
    Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee, director of the Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies (IPCS), contextualised the conference as an "effort to reassess ways and means of ensuring strategic stability, given the strategic development ...
  • Islam and Democracy: India as a Moderating Influence
       ·   08 May, 2006    ·    #2007    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers: Dr Ashgar Ali Engineer & Prof Desh Raj Goyal Discussants: Amb. Bhadrakumar & Partha S Ghosh Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee Thomas Friedman first mentioned the phenomenon that while Muslims from around the world joined ...
  • NDFB: Time To Return To The Jungles?
    Rani Pathak    ·   08 May, 2006    ·    #2006    ·    Commentary    
      The year-long ceasefire between the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) and the Indian government ends on 31 May 2006, unless it is extended further. During the year that elapsed, the NDFB has remained consistent in its...
  • Looking Beyond the Doda Massacre
    D Suba Chandran    ·   06 May, 2006    ·    #2005    ·    Commentary    
    On 1 May 2006, militants killed 35 persons belonging to the Hindu community in calibrated attacks in two incidents at Doda and Udhampur. In Doda district, the militants attacked two remote villages more than 25 kms away from Doda at midnight; fo...
  • Peace Process in Sri Lanka
    AM Vohra    ·   06 May, 2006    ·    #2004    ·    Commentary    
    After four years of truce, the Sri Lankan peace process is under severe strain. The Sri Lankan elections of November 2005 brought the United People's Freedom Alliance into power with the support of the hardliners. Mahinda Rakapakse was sworn...
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