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  • NSG Waiver: What does it mean for India?
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   17 Sep, 2008    ·    #2684    ·    Commentary    
    To begin with, the victory at Vienna has greater political standpoint that India has been adhered to by not signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) due to its discriminatory nature. Moreover, the deal essentially endorses India's position...
  • Nuclear Deal and Strategic Concerns: Myths and Realities
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   17 Sep, 2008    ·    #2683    ·    Commentary    
    The Indo-US nuclear deal has come a long way, with clearance from the NSG. The Prime Minister went to the extent of sacrificing the government rather than compromising with the Left. The need for the deal became evident from the speech of the Le...
  • Emerging Trends of Urban Terrorism
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   15 Sep, 2008    ·    #2682    ·    Commentary    
    With each terrorist blast in India, the challenges facing India get further compounded even as the understanding of the threat posed by terrorism slips deeper into ambivalence. While the investigative agencies were unraveling the puzzle of the A...
  • India's NSG Waiver: Indian and American Responses
    Gretchen Smith    ·   15 Sep, 2008    ·    #2681    ·    Commentary    
    By securing an unprecedented waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), India has just completed the most difficult leg of its three-part journey. Should India have failed to make it through, its' dreams of energy independence would have...
  • Countering Terror: New Approaches Required
       ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2680    ·    Commentary    
    The Indian state's vulnerability to terrorist strikes has now been demonstrated regularly and with impunity. The series of attacks this year, from Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Surat and now to Delhi, all possibly by an indigenous terror outfit call...
  • India's First Multilateral FTA: Lessons Learnt
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2679    ·    Commentary    
    After more than twenty meetings of the ASEAN-India Trade Negotiating Committee (AITNC) and four rounds of ASEAN-India Economic Ministers' meetings, India and ASEAN have finally agreed to kick start the FTA in goods. The ASEAN-India FTA in go...
  • Pakistan Again: Should India Stage a 'Walk Out'?
    Narendra Kumar Tripathi    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2678    ·    Commentary    
    India and Pakistan have been each other's 'enemy number one' for more than sixty years. Even though China did try to make an entry into this dyad in 1962, yet it effectively remained the 'other'. We are gradually coming to se...
  • A Roadmap for Kashmir
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2677    ·    Commentary    
    The crisis having blown over, Kashmir is currently simmering. With the Hurriyat having tasted blood it is looking to exercise a spoilers' influence on the forthcoming elections to the state assembly. Both political parties, the PDP and the N...
  • The Berman Letter: Time for Creative Diplomacy
    Reshmi Kazi    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2676    ·    Commentary    
    The Indo-US civilian nuclear deal was subjected to a fresh round of controversy with the release of an eight-month old communication from the US State Department by Congressman Howard Berman. Berman, Chairman of the House of Representatives Fore...
  • The Kosi Deluge: A Lesson for Indian Diplomacy
    Medha Bisht    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2675    ·    Commentary    
    The year 2008, witnessed yet another disastrous flood in North Bihar. While the blame game between the politicians becomes evident as the issue is played out in the public domain, this verbal war is not a surprise to many. Floods in Bihar have b...
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