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  • Recent Trends in Indo-US Relations
       ·   12 Nov, 2003    ·    #1213    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: P. R. Chari Speaker: Stephen Cohen            &nb...
  • Bush’s Anti-terror Initiatives for Asia-Pacific
       ·   12 Nov, 2003    ·    #1212    ·    Commentary    
    Two aspects of US President George W. Bush’s Southeast Asian sojourn during the APEC summit in Bangkok were prominent. One was to put terrorism in APEC’s agenda along with economics and trade. This was to get the Asia-Pacific leaders...
  • Vajpayee visits Nagaland (Regional Media Survey, 16-31 October 2003)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   12 Nov, 2003    ·    #1211    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister?s Visit to Kohima In context of the continuing peace process, the three-day visit of Prime Minister Vajpayee to Kohima assumed significance. On the day of his arrival, October 27, The Nagaland Post in its editorial ?Height of...
  • Sri Lanka-Bangladesh Free Trade Agreement
    Anand Kumar    ·   12 Nov, 2003    ·    #1210    ·    Commentary    
    Bangladesh and Sri Lanka agreed in principle to stitch up a free trade agreement (FTA) in Dhaka on November 2 after a two-day joint secretary level meeting. The modalities of this FTA would be finalized in January 2004 when both sides meet in Co...
  • Update on Nepal (Nepal Media Survey, 15-31 October 2003)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   12 Nov, 2003    ·    #1209    ·    Commentary    
    Hard Steps against Maoists               In its lead news The Kathmandu Post (15 October 2003) reported Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa’s statement that the Governmen...
  • Northeast Indian Rebels Play Culture Cops
    Wasbir Hussain    ·   12 Nov, 2003    ·    #1208    ·    Commentary    
    It could be just plain xenophobia or a desperate bid to make their presence felt. Whatever the case might be, the diktat by as many as nine separatist rebel groups in India’s northeast calling for a ban on the screening of Hindi film...
  • New Initiatives: The “Other” Perception
    D Suba Chandran    ·   12 Nov, 2003    ·    #1207    ·    Commentary    
    How do the Pakistanis see the Indian proposals and Pakistan’s response? The popular response could be broadly categorized into two – the mode...
  • Corruption in Bangladesh
    PR Chari    ·   10 Nov, 2003    ·    #1206    ·    Commentary    
    The timing could not have been worse. On October 8, the day the 49th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference was to commence in Dhaka, Transparency International (TI) released its annual report awarding Bangladesh a score of 1.3 on the...
  • Constitutional Crisis in Sri Lanka: One Move, Many Stalemates
    N Manoharan    ·   10 Nov, 2003    ·    #1205    ·    Commentary    
    Plebiscitary politics has once again come to the fore in the Island’s politics. Citing the “security of the country”, President Chandrika Kumaratunga sacked three ministers of the present UNF government, prorogued Parliament an...
  • The War in Sri Lanka
    Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee    ·   10 Nov, 2003    ·    #1204    ·    Commentary    
    War has broken out in Sri Lanka. No, not in the north and east, but, the south and west of the Island centred on Colombo. A low intensity conflict had begun weeks before parliamentary elections in end 2001. It is now an open war. There will be a...
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