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  • Chemical Warfare Agents and the Indian Context
    Prashant Mehta    ·   16 Oct, 2008    ·    #2706    ·    Commentary    
    Chemical warfare is warfare (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances/compounds to kill, seriously injure or incapacitate an enemy. Several countries began eliminating their chemical weapons stockpile...
  • Nuclear Iran: Anathema for India
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   16 Oct, 2008    ·    #2705    ·    Commentary    
    Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reiterated India's opposition to a nuclear Iran during a visit to France in October 2008. This is significant owing to the traditional Indo-Iranian friendship and the ongoing negotiations for a multi-bill...
  • A Case for SIMI
    Nanjunda Reddy    ·   14 Oct, 2008    ·    #2704    ·    Commentary    
    "E-mail authors identified, claim police," read the headlines of an article in The Hindu newspaper, in which, the Rajasthan police claimed that the terror e-mail which was sent by the Indian Mujahideen to media houses a day after the 1...
  • A New Dawn in India-Nepal Relations? Prachanda's Visit to India
    Oliver Housden    ·   12 Oct, 2008    ·    #2703    ·    Commentary    
    The picture of Nepalese Prime Minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda, leader of a ten-year long Maoist revolutionary movement who persistently railed against Indian imperialism, laying a wreath at the memorial of India's and history'...
  • Towards Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia
    Mohit Anand    ·   12 Oct, 2008    ·    #2702    ·    Commentary    
    The Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia (CEPEA) initiative, floated by Japan, has emerged as one of the most important steps being taken under the East Asia Summit (EAS). The idea for CEPEA was proposed by Japan at the 2nd EAS held i...
  • The Naxal Testimony on Kandhamal
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   09 Oct, 2008    ·    #2701    ·    Commentary    
    In a shocking but rare interview given to a private television news channel in Orissa, the Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Orissa State Committee, Sabyasachi Panda, claimed that it was the CPI (Maoist) who had killed Vishwa H...
  • Bangladeshi Politics: Rewind the Last Two Years
    Sandeep Bhardwaj    ·   09 Oct, 2008    ·    #2700    ·    Commentary    
    "Political reforms can't be imposed," was the statement Bangladeshi Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed gave while talking at a press conference at New York, recently. He went on to argue that for a stable democratic politics, refo...
  • Indo-Bangladesh Maritime Border Dispute: Problems and Prospects
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   07 Oct, 2008    ·    #2699    ·    Commentary    
    The three-day boundary talks between India and Bangladesh that took place during 15-17 September 2008 after a gap of 28 years were inconclusive. Earlier meetings held in 1974 and 1980 did not yield definite results either. Both sides seem to hav...
  • Tackling Terror: Reforms, Not Stringent Laws, Necessary
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   06 Oct, 2008    ·    #2698    ·    Commentary    
    Given the severity and frequency of terror attacks in the country and loss of hundreds of innocent lives, it is time to rethink anti-terror strategies. Voices are being raised for stringent anti-terror laws, but global experience shows that exce...
  • Reforming the Prison Administration in India
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   06 Oct, 2008    ·    #2697    ·    Commentary    
    Of the many reforms required for effective functioning of the Indian law and justice system, prison reforms are an important part. Unless measures are initiate to bring the Indian prison management in sync with the times, the law and justice sys...
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