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  • Argentina: India's Seventh Nuclear Destination
    Amit Kumar Chatterjee    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2996    ·    Commentary    
    This October, Argentina became the seventh country with which India signed a civil nuclear agreement. The crucial deal follows a series of similar ones that India signed with other countries. The lifting of a 34-year-old ban on India with regard...
  • A Warning Signal for Indian Space and Defence Establishment
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2995    ·    Commentary    
    The dramatic arrest in October this year of 52 year old Stewart David Nozette, a top ranking space scientist with the USA’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA), by the sleuths of the FBI(Federal Bureau of Investigation) on ...
  • China at 60 - Nationalism
    Gunjan Singh    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2994    ·    Commentary    
    The People’s Republic of China (PRC) completed 60 years on 1 October 2009. Mao Tse-tung had declared the establishment of the PRC on 1 October 1949 stating that the ‘Chinese people ha[d] stood up’. This was historic, especially...
  • New Dawn for New People’s Army?
    Anna Louise Strachan    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2993    ·    Commentary    
    In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), Jose Maria Sison who is currently living in the Netherlands, spoke of Maoist combatants in the Philippines increasing their armed capacity...
  • Cross-border Nationalism
    N Manoharan    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2992    ·    Commentary    
    A 10 member delegation of members of the Indian Parliament from Tamil Nadu recently visited Sri Lanka to assess the conditions of civilians displaced by the recently concluded war.  This was the first visit of its kind in terms of its polit...
  • The Illogic of ‘Unacceptable Damage’
    Ali Ahmed    ·   30 Oct, 2009    ·    #2991    ·    Commentary    
    India’s official nuclear doctrine of January 2003 has rightly been critiqued for including the term ‘massive’ in its formulation: ‘Nuclear retaliation to a first strike will be massive and designed to inflict unacceptable...
  • Kashmir’s Gateway to the World
    M Ashraf    ·   28 Oct, 2009    ·    #2990    ·    Commentary    
    It was after almost three decades that a direct international flight landed at the upgraded Srinagar Airport last February. The flight, received by the Congress President Sonia Gandhi, was a great occasion for Kashmir. For more than half a centu...
  • China at 60 - Sino-Indian Tensions
    PR Chari    ·   26 Oct, 2009    ·    #2989    ·    Commentary    
    Let’s get the nuggets of wisdom out of the way. India and China have been indifferent neighbors in history with the high Himalayas intervening between them. The Indic and Sinic cultures are competitive, as clearly visible in Southeast Asia...
  • Foreign Hand in Iran Bombing?
    M Mahtab Alam Rizvi    ·   23 Oct, 2009    ·    #2988    ·    Commentary    
    The recent suicide attacks in Iran killed at least 42 people including five senior commanders of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and some tribal leaders, dozens others were wounded in two bombings in the volatile sou...
  • India Investing in MIRV Technology
    Ajey Lele    ·   22 Oct, 2009    ·    #2987    ·    Commentary    
    What is a credible nuclear deterrence? This question is being debated in India for last couple of years without much of agreement amongst security experts. The debate normally focuses around issues such as what number of nuclear weapons should I...
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