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  • Threat to Whistle Blowers in Bihar
    Kamla Singh    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2634    ·    Commentary    
    On 15 May 2008, Lalit Mehta, a social activist and whistle blower, was killed in Palamu district. Mehta was an activist of the Right to Food campaign and the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan. He was also the secretary of the Vikas Sahyog Kendra (VSK), a non-...
  • Biotechnology in India: Regulation of the Growing Industry
    Danielle Toth    ·   31 Jul, 2008    ·    #2633    ·    Commentary    
    The biotechnology industry has grown immensely in the 21st century and is likely to continue on this upward slope. Asia has significantly contributed to the expansion of this industry, and India in particular, has experienced this growth. An art...
  • Fishing in Troubled Waters: Tamil Nadu Fishermen and India-Sri Lanka Relations
    N Manoharan    ·   30 Jul, 2008    ·    #2632    ·    Commentary    
    The Tamil Nadu factor in India-Sri Lanka relations that had been quiet for long has come to the fore in the form of the fishermen issue. Frequent incidents of fishermen from Tamil Nadu getting shot in the India-Sri Lanka maritime boundary have e...
  • Fighting Naxals
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   29 Jul, 2008    ·    #2631    ·    Commentary    
    What led to the setting up of the Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College in Kanker, Chhattisgarh? Over the last few years, Chhattisgarh has witnessed an upsurge of Naxal activity and violence resulting in a dramatic increase in casual...
  • Bridging the Straits: Prospects of the India-Sri Lanka CEPA
    Satyajit Mohanty    ·   29 Jul, 2008    ·    #2630    ·    Commentary    
    India and Sri Lanka can send a powerful economic message by announcing a firm deadline to implement the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) at the Colombo SAARC meeting, which seeks to deepen existing economic agreements, widen e...
  • Q&A: Terror Tentacles in Karnataka
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   29 Jul, 2008    ·    #2629    ·    Commentary    
    The buzzing city of Bangalore was almost paralyzed with a series of eight low intensity blasts across the city on Friday afternoon, 25 July, that killed one person and left seven injured. The places targeted include Madivala checkpost, the adjoi...
  • India's Role in the Global Disarmament Debate
    Gretchen Smith    ·   29 Jul, 2008    ·    #2628    ·    Commentary    
    Twenty years after the Reykjavik Summit, a group of scholars convened to examine the progress that had been made since the meeting between the disarmament pioneers - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The participants recognized that in additi...
  • Japanese Security Policy: Pragmatism in the Face of Dilemma
    Rajesh Kapoor    ·   29 Jul, 2008    ·    #2627    ·    Commentary    
    The present security discourse in Japan, seeking 'normalcy', has its roots in the post-World War II reforms and remilitarization that took place during the occupation era. Since then, while the conservative and nationalist factions in Ja...
  • Myanmar: Be Careful What You Wish For
    Ann Koppuzha    ·   20 Jul, 2008    ·    #2626    ·    Commentary    
    Myanmarese exiles, the international media, and certain first ladies have painted the power struggle in Myanmar as black-and-white, good versus evil. The reality is much more complicated. Multiple ethnic groups constitute Myanmar and since its i...
  • AQ Khan: Nuclear Politics
    Prashant Hosur    ·   20 Jul, 2008    ·    #2625    ·    Commentary    
    After living under virtual house arrest for four years, Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan has shocked the world by recanting his earlier confessions on television that he was 'solely' responsible for the sale of nuclear technology to I...
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