COMMENTARIES
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Malkangiri, Orissa: An Attack Waiting to Happen
Sulochana Das · 09 Jul, 2008 · #2616 · Commentary
Guns roared at them when a large group of Greyhound jawans of Andhra Pradesh were returning to Chitrakonda town in the Naxalite-infested Malkangiri district of Orissa on 29 June morning after carrying out a combing operation in the region. The i...
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Q&A: Pakistan's Nuclear Bogeyman
Siddharth Ramana · 08 Jul, 2008 · #2615 · Commentary
In an interview to The Guardian on 30 May 2008, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan - regarded as the founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme - retracted his earlier confession about selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya, Khan regretted...
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Violent Revolution: The Naxal War Zone in Orissa
Rajat Kumar Kujur · 08 Jul, 2008 · #2614 · Commentary
One can recall the 2004 Naxal attack in Koraput, or the 2006 Naxal attack in R. Udayagiri, or the 2008 Nayagarh Naxal attack; incidents of this genre reveal that Orissa has always offered Naxals a safe haven to test their abilities. Recently on ...
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Growing Naxalism: Need for a Unified Command
Saumitra Mohan · 08 Jul, 2008 · #2613 · Commentary
With the recent arrest of Maoists in Mumbai by the Maharashtra police, it has become obvious that this menace is not confined only to the jungles. The Maoists are increasingly penetrating cities to indoctrinate people and collect funds. If intel...
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ULFA's 28th Battalion: Truce, Split or Regrouping Tactics?
Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman · 08 Jul, 2008 · #2612 · Commentary
The unilateral ceasefire announced by the 'A' and the 'C' companies of the 28th Battalion of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has been hailed as a positive development towards peace in the insurgency-affected state of A...
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Cambodia: Indian Inertia versus Growing Chinese Presence
Pranav Kumar · 03 Jul, 2008 · #2611 · Commentary
Working towards greater economic cooperation forms an important part of India's Look East Policy. In the last two decades India's bilateral trade and investment with this region has increased significantly. However, the increase remains ...
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The Passing Away of a Legend: Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw
· 01 Jul, 2008 · #2610 · Commentary
"Sam Bahadur," as he was affectionately known throughout the Army, was a true hero of our times. Among the first batch to be commissioned from the Indian Military Academy in 1932, his pedigree was entirely Indian. He represented like n...
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India and the Predicament of Bhutanese Refugees
Medha Bisht · 01 Jul, 2008 · #2609 · Commentary
As 35,000 Bhutanese prepare themselves to be resettled in Canada, Australia, Netherlands, United States, Norway and New Zealand, skeptics raise their voices against an "indifferent" India, which they say has for quite some time become ...
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Changing Face of the Naxalites in Bihar: From Homelessness to Real Estate
Satish Kumar · 01 Jul, 2008 · #2608 · Commentary
Bihar has witnessed a fresh spurt of Naxal violence in the last few days. Two J.C.B vehicles and tractors engaged in road constructions in Jehanabad were burnt to ashes in Narayana Mushari village under Pali police station. The Maoist Communist ...
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AIDS Kills More Than War
Bimla Kumari · 01 Jul, 2008 · #2607 · Commentary
A High-Level meeting on AIDS was held from 10 to 13 of June 2008 at the General Assembly in New York. 147 countries submitted their 2008 report to the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in compliance with the 2001 Declaration of Commitment ...
