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Seizing ‘The Belt and Road’ Opportunity: Challenges for Nepal
Pramod Jaiswal. · 23 Jun, 2017 · #5307 · Commentary
Nepal signed China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) before the BRI Summit. During the BRI summit held in Beijing, the Nepalese Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport proposed to the Chinese Transport Minister to link Nepal’s ...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India-US: Convergences and Divergences
Chintamani Mahapatra. · 21 Jun, 2017 · #5305 · Commentary
Narendra Modi's landslide victory in the 2014 general election raised many eyebrows in relevant circles about the future of India’s relations with the US. The United Progressive Alliance-II (UPA-II) government had already witnessed a ...
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Civil Nuclear Energy Initiatives
Niharika Tagotra. · 20 Jun, 2017 · #5303 · Commentary
In July 2014, months after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government returned to power, Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi visited the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai and declared that nuclear power would be an essen ...
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India-China Relations: A Mixed Bag
TCA Rangachari. · 19 Jun, 2017 · #5301 · Commentary
“The prospects of the 21st century becoming the Asian century will depend in large measure on what India and China achieve individually and what we do together.”
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Indian Nuclear Policy and Diplomacy
Manpreet Sethi. · 19 Jun, 2017 · #5300 · Commentary
Democracies often undergo swings in policies with a change of government. India’s nuclear policy, however, in both its dimensions - weapons and power generation - has enjoyed broad support across political parties. The pace of development of th ...
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Dealing with Left Wing Extremism: No Permanent Solution?
Bibhu Prasad Routray. · 16 Jun, 2017 · #5298 · Commentary
On 3 June 2017, India's Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, summed up his government's performance in the past three years with regard to the challenge of Left Wing Extremism (LWE), and said "...there has been a decline of 25% in LWE related ...
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Evolving Situation in J&K: Summer 2017 (Part II)
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain. · 16 Jun, 2017 · #5299 · Commentary
Amarnath Yatra is a worrisome event from a security point of view because the mileage gained by terrorists and its implications can both be immense. Hence the need to over insure that both routes, the Pahalgam and Baltal ones, be secured each by su ...
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India-ASEAN Relations: Progress and Possibilities
Rajiv Bhatia. · 15 Jun, 2017 · #5296 · Commentary
Assessing the state of India's relations with ASEAN as the Modi government completed three years in office makes sense. But the task is not easy, for the governments are in a mode of self-congratulation. Whereas celebrations of the silver anniv ...
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India-West Asia: With Relations Boosted, Consolidation Must Follow
Ranjit Gupta. · 12 Jun, 2017 · #5295 · Commentary
Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra
Modi has invested more personal energy and enthusiasm in the conduct and
stewardship of India’s external relations than any prime minister
since the first decade of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s premie ...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India-Bangladesh: Engagement with More Stakeholders Required
Amit Ranjan. · 12 Jun, 2017 · #5294 · Commentary
Unless there is a change in the form of government or there occurs a marked shift in global or regional political order, the foreign policy of any ‘normal’ country maintains continuity with its past. However, certain adjustments are mad ...
