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  • Rajapakse’s Victory and its Implications
    Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe    ·   03 Feb, 2010    ·    #3056    ·    Commentary    
    As Sri Lanka concluded its sixth Presidential elections Mahinda Rajapakse again emerged victorious. Although Rajapakse was tipped as the favoured candidate, there were expectations that the election would be a closely contested with the emergenc...
  • Afghanistan - Watching from the Sidelines
    Raghav Sharma    ·   02 Feb, 2010    ·    #3055    ·    Commentary    
    "There should be no distinction between a good Taliban and a bad Taliban." The above postulation made by Foreign Minister SM Krishna during his pre-conference parleys with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, is a reflection of...
  • Is Taiwan Becoming 'Chaiwan'?
    Ranjit B Rai    ·   02 Feb, 2010    ·    #3054    ·    Commentary    
    Taiwan and mainland China scripted history in their relations, after 60 years, when President Ma Ying-Jeou was elected Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) party in power on 26 July 2009.  Chinese Communist Party’s Hu Jintao sent Ma a con...
  • Sino-Indian Trade Ties: An Uncertain Future
    Satyajit Mohanty    ·   02 Feb, 2010    ·    #3053    ·    Commentary    
    Sino-Indian economic ties are on a growth curve raising hopes that such ties would have a salutary effect on bilateral relations. While the border remained tense last year, our trade ties, as noticed from the recently concluded Joint Economic Gr...
  • Sri Lanka - Reflections on the Elections
    Zarin Ahmad    ·   28 Jan, 2010    ·    #3052    ·    Commentary    
    The people of Sri Lanka have voted and chosen Mahinda Rajapakse as President once again with a bigger margin than 2005. The President has defeated his former army chief General (retired) Sarath Fonseka on 26 January 2010. The elections, called a...
  • Challenges Before the President
    N Manoharan    ·   28 Jan, 2010    ·    #3051    ·    Commentary    
    Incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse has comfortably won a second bid in a keenly contested elections held on 26 January 2010. Despite getting nearly eight per cent more popular votes compared to last time, Rajapakse has enormous challenges bef...
  • India at 60: Acquiring Escape Velocity?
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   27 Jan, 2010    ·    #3050    ·    Commentary    
    The parade down the Rajpath on India’s sixtieth Republic Day showcased its growing power, signified best by the replica of INS Arihant, the third leg of its ‘triad’ launched by the Prime Minister in the preceding year. While op...
  • Ledo Road Leading Nowhere
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   27 Jan, 2010    ·    #3049    ·    Commentary    
    The historic Ledo Road, more popularly known as the Stilwell Road, was constructed by the Allied forces during the Second World War as an alternative for the Burma Road on the China-Burma-India theatre, to supply the forces fighting against the ...
  • Waiting for the NSA
    PR Chari    ·   21 Jan, 2010    ·    #3048    ·    Commentary    
    The furious debate on who will replace MK Narayanan as the new National Security Adviser (NSA) may seem unusual. Isn’t this another routine bureaucratic transition? There lies the rub. The NSA is not another bureaucrat. Narayanan had incre...
  • The Naxal Strategy in Urban Areas
    R Venkata Ramani    ·   21 Jan, 2010    ·    #3047    ·    Commentary    
    Naxal violence, though predominantly a rural phenomenon, has been slowly but steadily making inroads in urban areas. The Ninth Unity Congress of the Communist Party of India (Maoists) [CPI (M)] held in January/February 2007 at an undisclosed loc...
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