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  • Manipur: Law versus Outlaws
    Rani Pathak    ·   06 Aug, 2004    ·    #1453    ·    Commentary    
    In the situation prevailing in Manipur, the armed forces believe that they require tough legal provisions to combat the separatists and restore a semblance of order. The security forces in Manipur are tasked primarily to carry out counte...
  • Mayhem in Manipur (Northeast Regional Media Survey, July 2004)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   06 Aug, 2004    ·    #1452    ·    Commentary    
    Protest against Extra Judicial Killing in Manipur The alleged extra-judicial killing of an woman by the Assam Rifles personnel on 11 July, gave rise to a series of violent demonstrations in Manipur which not only demanded the guil...
  • Future of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Regime
       ·   06 Aug, 2004    ·    #1451    ·    Commentary    
    George Perkovich, Vice President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the group of experts who authored the ‘Universal Compliance-Draft Report’ initiated a discussion on the Report at the Institute....
  • Resurfacing of Rohingya Refugees
    Anand Kumar    ·   06 Aug, 2004    ·    #1450    ·    Commentary    
    The problem of Rohingya refugees seems to be emerging anew in Bangladesh. Their number is increasing in the bordering districts of southeastern Bangladesh contrary to official statistics that all but some 20,000 Rohingyas have been repat...
  • India-China Border Talks
    Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee    ·   02 Aug, 2004    ·    #1449    ·    Commentary    
    JN Dixit, the National Security Adviser and Dai Bingguo, Chinaâ??s Vice Foreign Minister met for the third round of talks at the level of Special Representatives at Delhi in end July. The Indian foreign office s...
  • India- China Meeting, 26-27 July 2004
       ·   01 Aug, 2004    ·    #1448    ·    Commentary    
    The latest meeting between the Special Representatives of India and China in New Delhi on 26 and 27 July marks the third round in a new exercise begun as a result of a special initiative between the Prime Ministers of the two countries las...
  • Assam’s Illegal Immigrants: Electoral Clarities and National Ambiguities
    Bidhan S Laishram    ·   01 Aug, 2004    ·    #1447    ·    Commentary    
    The issue of illegal immigrants in Assam represents lack of national clarity over a desirable policy on the issue of immigrants. Numerical guarantee in elections has solely authored this ambiguity over the decades by undermining, in the ...
  • Limited War
    Lt. Gen. AM Vohra    ·   01 Aug, 2004    ·    #1446    ·    Commentary    
    Considerable confusion has been caused in the last few years by the loose usage of the term ‘Limited War’. After the Kaluchak terrorist attack on 14 May 2002, a columnist wrote in the Hindustan Times of 31 May 2002 that Ind...
  • Peace through Dialogue (Kashmir Urdu Media Survey, June 2004)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   01 Aug, 2004    ·    #1445    ·    Commentary    
    The editorial, ?Continuation of the dialogue? in daily Aftab (03 June 2004) commented on the telephonic conversation between Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan. Indian Foreign Minister, Natwar Singh, reiterated that India would contin...
  • Policy to Counter Hostage-taking
    Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee    ·   27 Jul, 2004    ·    #1444    ·    Commentary    
    The recent incident of three Indians taken hostage in Iraq has highlighted once again the dangerous world we live in. Hostages have been taken throughout history. What makes it so urgent today is its increasing link with international t...
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