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  • Nagaland: Opportunity to Exploit Fortuitous Advantages
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #557    ·    Commentary    
    The apprehensions underlying the government’s July 27, 2001 decision to restrict the cease-fire with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) only to Nagaland was the prospect of renewed insurgency. Statements from va...
  • Northeastern Insurgents in Bhutan: Time for a Pro-active Action
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #556    ·    Commentary    
    It is a classic case of protracted insurgency overflowing into the territory of India 's neighbour. The July 31, 2001 attack on a truck carrying Bhutanese forest officials by unidentified terrorists, apart from evoking sympa...
  • A Border Guards Organization for Anti-Terrorist Operations
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #555    ·    Commentary    
    Indian intelligence has chosen to remain myopic, both in terms of space (neighours, relevant nations and superpowers) and time (present and future); all our wars in 1947, 1962, 1965 1971 and 1999 bear testimony of this statement. We did not have f...
  • Does the US non-proliferation policy make any difference in South Asia?
       ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #554    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Raju G. C. Thomas     Allia Chalmers Professor of International Affairs, Marquette University     The two general purposes of the US non-proliferation policy are: ...
  • Kashmir: The Way Ahead – Part II
       ·   24 Aug, 2001    ·    #553    ·    Commentary    
        Interview with G Parthasarthy, Former High Commissioner of India at Pakistan     At the summit in Agra and before, Pakistan has been insisting that Kashmir ...
  • Talking with the NSCN-IM : From Paris to Bangkok to Amsterdam – Part 2
    Shivaji Mukherjee    ·   21 Aug, 2001    ·    #552    ·    Commentary    
    The four-year ceasefire between the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the Union government has failed because it has not yielded any negotiated political settlement. While it has satisfied the short-term goal of brin...
  • Talking with the NSCN-IM: From Paris to Bangkok to Amsterdam – Part 1
    Shivaji Mukherjee    ·   21 Aug, 2001    ·    #551    ·    Commentary    
    In tackling the threat from the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), the Union government seems trapped in a contradictory strategy of its own making.      One horn of this strategy is the gov...
  • Balance of Payment and India’s Sovereignty
       ·   21 Aug, 2001    ·    #550    ·    Commentary    
    Since the beginning of the Second Five Year Plan, India has experienced a balance of payments (BOP) problem. India entered the nineties with large internal and external financial imbalances. This made the economy vulnerable to exog...
  • Russian Arms in Indian Forces
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   18 Aug, 2001    ·    #549    ·    Commentary    
    During the preceding year, India has finalised several long-pending defence contracts with Russia worth nearly $3 billion for 150 SU-30MKI multi-role fighters, a more powerful version of the 40 MI-17 IV helicopters and 310 T-90S main b...
  • Scope for promotion of Sino-Indian relations
    Abanti Bhattacharya    ·   18 Aug, 2001    ·    #548    ·    Commentary    
    After the 1962 India-China War our discussions on Sino-Indian relations seem to revolve around the question on how China perceives us and vice-versa. Staying in Shanghai for a year made me feel Indians just don't matter to the Chin...
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