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  • Consolidating India's Military-Industrial complex
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   04 Oct, 2005    ·    #1853    ·    Commentary    
    India?s military industrial complex (MIC) is poised for change. If recent decisions are any indication, private players will have new opportunities in defence production. The trade unions, on the other hand, have been sounding the alarm. Apparen...
  • Resurgent Naxal Movement in Bihar
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   03 Oct, 2005    ·    #1852    ·    Commentary    
          The seeds of the Naxal movement in Bihar were sown as early as 1967 in Ekwari village in the Sahar Block of Bhojpur district. Jagdish Mahato, a local schoolteacher who had alleged links with naxal leaders from West...
  • Would the EU ban LTTE?
    Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay    ·   03 Oct, 2005    ·    #1851    ·    Commentary    
    The European Union (EU) in a strongly-worded declaration on 26 September 2005 condemned the violent and terrorist activities of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The EU announced its active consideration to formally enlist LTTE ...
  • India-China Relations: Transforming Rhetoric Into Reality?
    Rukmani Gupta    ·   27 Sep, 2005    ·    #1850    ·    Commentary    
    In the last month, India and China have taken certain diplomatic initiatives that could well indicate a movement of relations from the realm of official rhetoric to real action. These include the MoU on intelligence sharing that the Indian Home ...
  • Casting the die in favour of US: Iran out of India's Strategic Matrix
    Beryl Anand    ·   27 Sep, 2005    ·    #1849    ·    Commentary    
    Peter Morris' book Power (1987) has been celebrated for including the first systematic study of the question, 'Where does the thirst to acquire "power" lead to?' He defines power as "a symbolically generated medium of ...
  • Will the US Adopt a Pre-emptive Nuclear Policy?
    Ajay Lele    ·   27 Sep, 2005    ·    #1848    ·    Commentary    
    In the recent UN General Assembly Session, Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed deep regret over the fate of non-proliferation agenda. The year 2005 could be seen as a 'watershed' for non-proliferation. First, the reluctance of the US ...
  • North Korea Nuclear Accord: A Game Of Diplomacy
    Reshmi Kazi    ·   27 Sep, 2005    ·    #1847    ·    Commentary    
    After a hiatus of three years and four rounds of intensive deliberations by the Six Party negotiators on the issue of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, an agreement has finally evolved whereby North Korea has pledged to dismantle its nuc...
  • Afghanistan, Resurgent Taliban and India
    Happymon Jacob    ·   20 Sep, 2005    ·    #1846    ·    Commentary    
    Elections to Afghanistan's 249-member Lower House and 34 provincial councils have just been conducted. Despite strict warnings from the resurgent Taliban and other splinter groups fighting the Karzai regime, it is widely held that these elec...
  • A Positive Gesture to Afghanistan
    Mridusmita Borah    ·   20 Sep, 2005    ·    #1845    ·    Commentary    
    The visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh to Afghanistan from 27-28 September 2005 demonstrated New Delhi's commitment to "work wholeheartedly" with Kabul, thereby making a strat...
  • The Meaning of Koizumi's Victory
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   19 Sep, 2005    ·    #1844    ·    Commentary    
    Untitled Document Junichiro Koizumi led his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a decisive victory in the 11 September elections to the Japanese Diet's Lower House. The Japanese public rewarded Koizumi's risk-taking and party purges...
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