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  • India-Bangladesh Relations: Are the Carrots Working?
    Sandeep Bhardwaj    ·   11 Aug, 2008    ·    #2644    ·    Commentary    
    On 31 July, India's TATA announced its withdrawal from a US$3 billion investment plan for Bangladesh. After four years of negotiations with the Indian conglomerate, the Bangladeshi government failed to reach a consensus with TATA executives ...
  • IDPs: Need for a National Legal Framework in Sri Lanka
       ·   11 Aug, 2008    ·    #2643    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the IPCS Colloquy held on 6 August 2008 Chair: Dr. Suba Chandran, Assistant Director, IPCS Speaker: Andres Angel, Research Intern, IPCS Unlike refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) live within the borders of their r...
  • The 'Right' and Wrongs of Preemption, the US and International Law
    Sonali Huria    ·   05 Aug, 2008    ·    #2642    ·    Commentary    
    After his meeting on 20 July with the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai in Kabul, the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, reiterated his oft-repeated resolve to move US troops out of Iraq and 'take the fight to al-Qaeda in Afghanis...
  • Will the Nuclear Deal be Finally Operationalized?
    Anindya Batabyal    ·   05 Aug, 2008    ·    #2641    ·    Commentary    
    After keeping the civilian nuclear deal with the United States in storage for a long time, the Congress (I) led UPA government finally chose to operationalise the deal by approaching the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for an India-spe...
  • Indo-Bangladesh Relations: A Golden Opportunity Missed?
    Sandeep Bhardwaj    ·   05 Aug, 2008    ·    #2640    ·    Commentary    
    The two-day Annual Foreign Office Consultation between India and Bangladesh concluded on 17 July 2008, in New Delhi. In the press conference following the consultation, both foreign secretaries expressed their satisfaction with the talks that ad...
  • Re-visioning the Vision for Northeast India: NER Vision 2020
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2639    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh unveiled the "Peace Progress and Prosperity in the North Eastern Region: Vision 2020" document on 2 July 2008 in New Delhi. The Prime Minister portrayed the northeastern region as the 'land of the risi...
  • Emerging Indo-Israel Relations
    Veena Tyagi    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2638    ·    Commentary    
    The Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aaron Abramovich, came to India on a three-day visit. He met the Indian External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, on 8 July 2008 and briefed him on the progress made with the Pa...
  • Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Where Do We Go From Here?
       ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2637    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 29 July 2008 Chair: Maj Gen (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee, Director, IPCS Speakers: Siddharth Varadarajan, Strategic Affairs Editor, The Hindu Ambassador Arundhati Ghose, Former Permanent Representative of...
  • Will the Nuclear Deal Hurt India's Foreign Policy?
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2636    ·    Commentary    
    Following the confidence vote on 22 July after the Left's withdrawal of support, and with the Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon meeting the IAEA Chief Mohamed ElBaradei in Vienna on 18 July to discuss India-specific Safeguards Agreem...
  • Acting in National Interest? ISI's role in Embassy Attack in Kabul
    Prashant Hosur    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2635    ·    Commentary    
    National security advisor, NK Narayanan has blamed the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) for planning the attacks on the Indian embassy in Kabul. He stated that the Indian government had intelligence about the involvement of the ISI in the attac...
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