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  • India's Security against Bio-weapons Attack: Mission Possible?
    KS Manjunath    ·   12 May, 2005    ·    #1740    ·    Commentary    
    Taking a leaf out of pop-fiction to show how life imitates art, in the movie 'Mission Impossible II', wherein a deadly virus is up for sale in the international market and the perpetrators of the crime are not looking for cash but paymen...
  • China-Taiwan - Between Mainland and the Island
       ·   12 May, 2005    ·    #1739    ·    Commentary    
    As with most things Chinese, the recent visit to the mainland by leader of Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party, Lien Chan, is yielding multiple meanings. Analysts interpret the significance of the visit in a variety of ways. It was th...
  • Bolton and the United Nations
    Ajay Lele    ·   12 May, 2005    ·    #1738    ·    Commentary    
    The controversy over the nomination of John Bolton to be the US ambassador to the United Nations is refusing to die down with fresh allegations being made about his 'attitude problem'  forcing the US Senate Foreign Relations Committ...
  • Will ULFA Wilt Under US Heat?
    Wasbir Hussain    ·   11 May, 2005    ·    #1737    ·    Commentary    
    The United States has at last declared the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) a terrorist organization, twenty six years after this Northeast Indian separatist group's formation and nearly five years after Washington has taken the lead i...
  • Sidelining the Baglihar: Overlooking a Critical CBM?
    Seema Sridhar    ·   10 May, 2005    ·    #1736    ·    Commentary    
    President Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during their high profile 'cricket diplomacy' could not reach an understanding on Baglihar issue. India prefers a bilateral process to resolve the problem; but this progress has been ...
  • Nepal- Future Steps
       ·   10 May, 2005    ·    #1735    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Dr Rhoderick Chalmers, International Crisis Group Chair: Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee Dipankar Banerjee: The seminar on Nepal is a continuation of IPCS's study of the developments in Nepal. The key is to focus on the larger iss...
  • Can Musharraf be Trusted? - Yes, the Atmosphere is Conducive
    AM Vohra    ·   10 May, 2005    ·    #1734    ·    Commentary    
    Peace is the key to socio-economic development. Poverty, illiteracy, health care and the unemployment are problems for both India and Pakistan, and require immediate corrective measures. However, there is no dearth of people obsessed with suspic...
  • Bangladesh Factor Affecting Insurgency in North-East
    Anil Kamboj    ·   06 May, 2005    ·    #1733    ·    Commentary    
    The northeastern region of India covering a total area of about 2,55,000 sq km is surrounded by Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and Myanmar. Less than one percent of the external boundaries of the region are contiguous with rest of India while remaini...
  • Dealing with Naxal Menace: Assessing Centre's Initiative
    Prafulla Ketkar    ·   06 May, 2005    ·    #1732    ·    Commentary    
    The failure of Andhra Pradesh Government's dialogue with the naxal organizations and the spread of naxal menace necessitated the Center to take cognizance of the problem. Accordingly, the Home Ministry organized the Chief Ministers' Conf...
  • India and the NPT - A Nuclear Existential Dilemma
       ·   06 May, 2005    ·    #1731    ·    Commentary    
    For most of the world, the timeline of India's nuclear development stops rather abruptly in May 1998. At that time, a nuclear India could not exist according to the rules governing the world's nuclear-capable countries; after its nuclear...
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