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  • Defence Spending: China and India
    Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee    ·   19 Mar, 2011    ·    #3346    ·    Commentary    
    In the first week of March 2011, within a week of each other, both China and India announced their defence budgets for the coming year. Each reflected a double-digit growth of about 12 per cent. But, the similarities end right there. In overall ...
  • Fukushima and the Future Shape of the International ‘Nuclear Renaissance’
    Lydia Walker    ·   18 Mar, 2011    ·    #3345    ·    Commentary    
    To be trite, words are inadequate to describe the trio of disastrous events which have hit Japan recently - from earthquake, to tsunami, to potential nuclear meltdown. While the first two disasters are acts of nature, the third revives the histo...
  • Disarming Libya: Passive Nuclear Blackmail
    Lydia Walker    ·   18 Mar, 2011    ·    #3344    ·    Commentary    
    With Libya’s unrest grabbing the headlines, one of the few mercies in the violent situation is that the Libyan government no longer possesses nuclear weapons materials. Imagine if they did:  They could use their possession, or the lac...
  • Prime Minister Khanal and Nepal’s Peace Process
    Padmaja Murthy    ·   16 Mar, 2011    ·    #3343    ·    Commentary    
    The election on 3 February 2011 of a new prime minister, the third since the 2008 constituent assembly elections, has not brought the required stability to Nepal. The election itself took place after six months of the caretaker government which ...
  • India-Bangladesh Water Relationship: A Renewal of Trust
    Punam Pandey    ·   12 Mar, 2011    ·    #3342    ·    Commentary    
    Recently the Planning Commission of India, in association with the Ministry of Water Resources, has proposed a major policy change. It has decided to include social-workers and anthropologists in the study of any water-related development projects...
  • Implications of Indian BMD developments
    Ali Ahmed    ·   08 Mar, 2011    ·    #3341    ·    Commentary    
    Indian technologists have yet again demonstrated their increasing abilities to furnish India with a ‘credible’ deterrent. The latest has been the destruction mid-air of a Prithvi II missile that depicted an incoming hostile missile w...
  • India’s Bangladesh Moment
    Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee    ·   07 Mar, 2011    ·    #3340    ·    Commentary    
    A historic opportunity awaits India in the next few months to address its fundamental security, cooperation in the region and its larger ‘Look East Policy’. All of which can be enhanced through a strong partnership with our neighbour...
  • Pre-election Flare-ups for the Tibetan Community: Allegations and Rebuttal
    Bhavna Singh    ·   04 Mar, 2011    ·    #3339    ·    Commentary    
    Investigations in the matter of recovery of foreign currency from the Karmapa’s office have not only dampened the fervour of pre-election euphoria amongst the Tibetan émigrés in India but also questioned the integrity of thei...
  • Revisiting Intelligence Reform
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   04 Mar, 2011    ·    #3338    ·    Commentary    
    The Outlook informs that a report on intelligence reforms is in the offing. The review is being done by a government think-tank, taking cue from the speech of the Vice President, Hamid Ansari. It has been ten years since the Kargil Review Commit...
  • BASIC Needs a New Strategy
    Swaran Singh    ·   04 Mar, 2011    ·    #3337    ·    Commentary    
    New Delhi hosted the sixth meeting of the Environment Ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) on 26-27 February. The most discernible and interesting development in the meeting was its 'BASIC plus' format which showed ...
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