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  • Opportunities for MNC's in India's North East
       ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1510    ·    Commentary    
    The industrial landscape in India has been going through a phenomenal change. Entrepreneur-driven and globally networked industrial enterprises are fast becoming the emblems of the new India. India's Northeastern states are also taking steps...
  • End of Power Struggle in China: Rejuvenation of
    Abanti Bhattacharya    ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1509    ·    Commentary    
    Last year Hu Jintao's leadership ushered in a new diplomacy with the formulation of "peaceful rise" to describe China's emergence and its independent peace policy. This concept  surfaced at the Boao Forum for Asia annual c...
  • Harnessing the Troubled Waters: Sethusamudram Canal Project
    N Manoharan    ·   26 Sep, 2004    ·    #1508    ·    Commentary    
    Why India does not have a continuous navigable route within its own territorial waters? Why should ships from Chennai to Tuticorin or Kolkotta to Mumbai circumnavigate Sri Lanka? The single answer is: absence of deep water connectivity between Pal...
  • Hu Jintao's New Uniform: What's the Message for Taiwan?
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   26 Sep, 2004    ·    #1507    ·    Commentary    
    At the recently concluded session of the fourth plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Jiang Zemin proposed that Hu Jintao take over the Central Military Commission CMC) chairmanship from him, saying that the latter...
  • Indo- Bangladesh relations: Stuck in the muddle
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   24 Sep, 2004    ·    #1506    ·    Commentary    
      Nothing significant was expected to emerge from the three day-long Indo-Bangladesh Home Secretary level dialogue in Dhaka between 15-17 September 2004. Given the mutual distrust that continues, this meeting was a fruitless exercise s...
  • India-Pakistan Composite Dialogue 2004: A Status Report
    N Manoharan    ·   22 Sep, 2004    ·    #1505    ·    Commentary    
            The first round of talks on the Composite Dialogue between India and Pakistan culminated with the Foreign Ministers’ meeting in New Delhi on 5-6 Septe...
  • Nepal Media Survey (1-31 August 2004)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   22 Sep, 2004    ·    #1504    ·    Commentary    
    Kathmandu Under Threat The Himal Khabarpatrika (31 July-15 August) in its report said that the Maoist strategy to strangle Kathmandu with a military buildup in the surrounding districts has suffered setbacks, because of the increased effica...
  • South Korean Nuclear Expose
    Ajay Lele    ·   17 Sep, 2004    ·    #1503    ·    Commentary    
    It was unexpected. But, probably the IAEA inspectors compelled the South Koreans to voluntarily declare their nuclear experimentations. The scientists at a government laboratory had performed two months of tests in early 2000 that enriched tiny ...
  • A More Robust Response Against Terrorism Required
       ·   17 Sep, 2004    ·    #1502    ·    Commentary    
    It did not take an anniversary to remind us of the horrors of terrorism. The terrorists decided to take up that responsibility. There have been at least 30 major terrorist strikes around the world since that fateful day in September 2001, when a...
  • Nepal: Maoists hold State and People to Ransom
    Sanjay Kumar    ·   17 Sep, 2004    ·    #1501    ·    Commentary    
    The writ of the Royal Government of Nepal runs only in Kathmandu. It has virtually no control over territories outside the state capital. But when Maoists in that country launched their blockade of Kathmandu on 18 August they showed to the world...
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