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  • What can we expect from the India-China Summit?
    Swaran Singh    ·   14 Dec, 2010    ·    #3296    ·    Commentary    
    As Wen Jiabao and Manmohan Singh begin preparing for their third bilateral summit in New Delhi this week the ghost of their legacies will be haunting their minds. This may well become their last bilateral summit before both leaders move away fro...
  • WikiWrecks: An Analysis of Terrorism Financing
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   13 Dec, 2010    ·    #3295    ·    Commentary    
    Revelations by WikiLeaks that the US is critical of Gulf states in their approach against terrorist financing of South Asian groups, including the Taliban and LeT, shed light on an observation which has been documented by counterterrorism offici...
  • WikiWrecks: Did the US Double-Cross India?
    Radhavinod Raju    ·   13 Dec, 2010    ·    #3294    ·    Commentary    
    Indian media reactions to the WikiLeaks’ disclosures pertaining to the 26/11 attacks were, to say the least, unfair. One headline read, ‘US backstabbed India after 26/11?’ It is now known that the US agencies had shared intelli...
  • Sarkozy’s India Visit: The Nuclear Dimension
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   10 Dec, 2010    ·    #3293    ·    Commentary    
    French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s official visit to India has generated a lot of buzz around the nuclear deals that have been signed. However, the visit is significant also for bolstering international efforts to bring India into the nuc...
  • Blast from the Past - The Varanasi Explosion
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   10 Dec, 2010    ·    #3292    ·    Commentary    
    Varanasi was recently rocked by a terrorist explosion which targeted worshippers at the evening prayers ceremony at the Ghats. Two additional IEDs were recovered later. The Indian Mujahideen (IM), in an email reportedly sent from Mumbai, took re...
  • WikiWrecks: 26/11 and US Intent
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   08 Dec, 2010    ·    #3291    ·    Commentary    
    The David Headley saga put a big question mark over the  US policy for tackling terror due to the inability of the FBI to inform their Indian counterparts about 26/11. New Delhi learnt the big lesson that it had to deal with Pakistan-sponso...
  • Is China’s Strategic Aggression Ill-Timed?
    Air Cmde Arjun Subramaniam    ·   07 Dec, 2010    ·    #3290    ·    Commentary    
    Within the framework of China’s meteoric rise, analysts across the world have chronicled its recent strategic belligerence without taking a call on whether this aggressiveness is part of a well-thought out ‘coming of age’ strat...
  • Dialogue between Nuclear Weapon States
       ·   06 Dec, 2010    ·    #3289    ·    Commentary    
    In the joint statement issued on the 8th November 2010 at the conclusion of President Obama’s three-day visit to India, the leaders of the two countries expressed “the need for a meaningful dialogue among all states possessing nuclea...
  • WikiWrecks: The US Perspective on Cold Start
    Ali Ahmed    ·   01 Dec, 2010    ·    #3288    ·    Commentary    
    The Guardian, recipient of the second tranche of documents from WikiLeaks, ran the US Ambassador’s take on Cold Start as recorded in cables to the US: “US embassy cables: India ‘unlikely' to deploy Cold Start against Pakist...
  • Naxal-Affected States: Will the Curse of Natural Resources Be Avoided?
    Lucy Dubochet    ·   01 Dec, 2010    ·    #3287    ·    Commentary    
    Will natural resources help stabilize the Naxal-affected states, or will the region fall prey to a curse that traps many countries in a circle of violence and under-development? The Mines and Mineral Development & Regulation Act, which is re...
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