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  • GDP and Defence Expenditure in India
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   24 Jan, 2000    ·    #311    ·    Commentary    
    The annual budgetary exercise is full swing these days. The defence minister George Fernandes has  advocated raising defence allocations from 2.3 to 3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). The term signifies the total value of goods and s...
  • The Ganges Water Sharing Treaty: Genesis & Significance
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   24 Jan, 2000    ·    #310    ·    Commentary    
    The 1996 Indo-Bangladesh water sharing treaty has opened a new gateway for fruitful bilateral cooperation. India and Bangladesh share 54 trans-boundary rivers that drain through Bangladesh of which the Ganges is hig...
  • SAARC – Impediments to Regional Cooperation
    Rahul Arun    ·   24 Jan, 2000    ·    #309    ·    Commentary    
    South Asia remains a region divided – divided between the hopes of rich and the despair of the poor. A region where the richest one fifth earns almost 40% of the income and the poorest 1/5th makes do with less than 10%. It’s a re...
  • The Hijacking and After
       ·   18 Jan, 2000    ·    #308    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers: Brig. B. D. Mishra, formerly with the National Security Guard (NSG)     Mr. Anand Verma former Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat     Maj. Gen. Ramesh Chopra     Chairma...
  • Hijacking Exposes India as a Weak Soft State
    Anand Verma    ·   14 Jan, 2000    ·    #307    ·    Commentary    
    The core question is whether the Govt. decision to release three militants in exchange for the freedom of 160 hostages was in the supreme national interests. Concomitant with that is the need for scrutiny of the methodology of the process in reach...
  • The Hijacking of IC-814
    PR Chari    ·   14 Feb, 2000    ·    #306    ·    Commentary    
    The one-week ordeal of the hostages, starting on Christmas Eve and concluding on New Year's Eve, ended with their exchange for three captured militants. Its reverberations, however, will be heard for a long time. The BJP's boast of makin...
  • Ideological Hegemony in China
    Rahul Arun    ·   14 Jan, 2000    ·    #305    ·    Commentary    
    "The policy on religious freedom does not apply to the communists. Communists are atheists, and they should uphold materialism and atheism”, proclaims a 1985 publication of the National People’s Congress panel. Such an ideological...
  • The CTBT: To Sign or not to sign
       ·   12 Jan, 2000    ·    #304    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers: Mr. Bharat Karnad, Mr. P.R.Chari & Gen. V.R.Raghavan     The debate centered on the issue of signing the CTBT. Opinion was divided into two opposing camps reflecting various concerns regarding national security...
  • Indo-US Relations in the New Millenium
    Arvind Kumar    ·   12 Jan, 2000    ·    #303    ·    Commentary    
    Two of the recent events or actions of the United States have again sparked off a new debate among analysts on the futureof Indo-US relations. The de-listing of 51 Indian entities from the US sanctions list is a good development an...
  • Indo-US Relations
    Sonika Gupta    ·   31 Dec, 1999    ·    #302    ·    Commentary    
    Alok Prasad provided  an overview of Indo-US relations with an emphasis on its Post- Pokharan aspects . According to him, the US began a reassessment of its relations with India in the early 1990s. A change of personnel in the...
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