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  • India and Israel: Common Cause against Terrorism?
    Sonika Gupta    ·   17 Sep, 2003    ·    #1150    ·    Commentary    
    Israel and India have joined forces in the fight terrorism and it is hoped that Israeli expertise in countering terrorism will help in tackling terrorism within India. It seems to have slipped everyone’s attention that Israel has failed to...
  • The Iranian Nuclear Weapons Issue: A Non-Zero-Sum Game
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   17 Sep, 2003    ·    #1149    ·    Commentary    
    After failing to discover WMDs in Iraq, President Bush’s “axis of evil” thesis has got a fresh lease of life. First the North Koreans, and now the Iranians, have been indicted as pursuing nuclear weapons programmes, either over...
  • Operation Spider Web in Bangladesh
    Anand Kumar    ·   16 Sep, 2003    ·    #1148    ·    Commentary    
    Operation Spider Web was launched in the southwestern districts of Bangladesh after all regular defensive measures and combing operations by police miserably failed to bring the law and order situation under control. This was the second joint op...
  • Forests and Environmental Security
    Col. PK Gautam    ·   16 Sep, 2003    ·    #1147    ·    Commentary    
    The current level of carbon in the atmosphere is 380 parts per million (ppm). This amount is one third higher that before the industrial age began. A study by the Inter Governmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) has calculated that to reduce w...
  • Recent Terrorist Strikes – Causes and Remedies
       ·   16 Sep, 2003    ·    #1146    ·    Commentary    
    Chair:  PR Chari   Speakers: Maj Gen Afsir Karim Prof Riaz Punjab...
  • Neglected Northeast: Whose Responsibility?
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   15 Sep, 2003    ·    #1145    ·    Commentary    
    The reason for economic backwardness of India’s northeast, accounting for 7.7 per cent of country’s geographical area and 3.72 per cent of its population can be attributed to the tendency of the State governments in the reg...
  • Northeast’s Money Grass and Opportunity for Peace
    Richard Mahapatra    ·   15 Sep, 2003    ·    #1144    ·    Commentary    
    Bamboo flowering in Mizoram always brings the horrors of two decades old insurgency back into the collective memory of its people. Come 2004, the bamboo forests in the state will flower and there are already reports of sporadic bamboo fl...
  • New threat to Sri Lankan Peace Process
    Nihar Nayak    ·   15 Sep, 2003    ·    #1143    ·    Commentary    
    The recent violence between Tamils and Muslims in Sri Lanka’s eastern province was the second of its kind in the island after the ceasefire on February 22, 2002. While allegations and counter a...
  • South Korean Official Delegation visits IPCS
       ·   13 Sep, 2003    ·    #1142    ·    Commentary    
    An official delegation from South Korea called on the IPCS and had a dialogue with the Director, Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee and a group of IPCS scholars on 11 September 2003.   Members ...
  • Indonesia: Islamisation or Terrorization
    Gautam K Jha    ·   15 Sep, 2003    ·    #1141    ·    Commentary    
    The process of Islamization in Indonesia has been slow but steady. Though Indonesia upholds secular principles under Pancasila in its Constitution, a marked change is visible in the mindset of younger generations in recent years. Since 9/11 and ...
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