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  • Regulating India's Cattle Industry: A Socio-Economic Assessment
    Ayan Tewari    ·   08 Mar, 2018    ·    #5443    ·    Commentary    
    On 23 May 2017, a notification issued under the 1960 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act was passed, placing new regulations on the cattle industry. The livestock sector (consisting of meat, dairy, and eggs) now makes up 28 per cent of the agr...
  • Women Cyber Warriors and the Indian Military
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   08 Mar, 2018    ·    #5442    ·    Commentary    
    The stage is set for the entry of women as ‘cyber warriors’ in the Indian armed forces. The Indian Army chief noted in 2017 that plans were in place to employ women officers "in new cadres such as cyber" since the country ...
  • Nuke Street
    Winter Olympics in the Nuclear Shadow
    Sheel kant Sharma    ·   05 Mar, 2018    ·    #5441    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Mixed signals have come from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics but they are once again wrapped in fierce and heightened rhetoric; from Washington, about the dire consequences of North Korean defiance in word and deed, and Pyongyong calling sanctions...
  • Musical Chairs in China's Parliament
    Srikanth Kondapalli    ·   28 Feb, 2018    ·    #5440    ·    Commentary    
    On 26 February, the Central Committee of the ruling Communist Party of China (CCP) proposed a series of constitutional amendments including changing the two-term norm for the president and vice-president posts. No specific term period was mentione...
  • Part-I
    Reorienting Saudi Foreign Policy: From Islam to the Arab Identity
    Pieter-jan Dockx    ·   27 Feb, 2018    ·    #5439    ·    Commentary    
    Since the rise of Saudi Arabia...
  • Maritime Matters
    The Debut of Counter-Drone Technologies
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   27 Feb, 2018    ·    #5438    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    During his speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "brandished" a piece of debris from an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) brought down by the Israeli military after it ...
  • Belt and Road and US-China Relations in 2018
    Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy    ·   19 Feb, 2018    ·    #5437    ·    Commentary    
    In early February 2018, US forces conducted air operations targeting both the Taliban and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) in Afghanistan's north-eastern Badakshan province which shares a border with China's Xinjiang Uyghur Auton...
  • Fragility of the Process: Myanmar’s Long Road to Peace
    Angshuman Choudhury    ·   19 Feb, 2018    ·    #5436    ·    Commentary    
    The third edition of Myanmar's flagship 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC) is scheduled to take place in February 2018. Originally slated for the end of January, the peace conference was postponed a week before the scheduled date. Nayp...
  • Goldfein's Visit and IAF-USAF Affiliation
    Murli Menon    ·   19 Feb, 2018    ·    #5435    ·    Commentary    
    US Air Force (USAF) Chief Gen David L Goldfein visit to India in February, along with the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) Gen Terrence O’ Shaughnessy, was an important development indicating the US' interest in greater operational associati...
  • Budget 2018-19: Beginning the 2019 Election Campaign
    Prerana Priyadarshi    ·   16 Feb, 2018    ·    #5434    ·    Commentary    
    The 2018-19 union budget is a clear indication that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led-National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has started its groundwork for the 2019 Lok Sabha (LS) elections. This budget seeks to revive the Modi governm...
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