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  • Debating the Idea of a Federal Police Agency
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   10 Mar, 2008    ·    #2514    ·    Commentary    
    The perceived failure of the Indian police machinery to deal satisfactorily with cases pertaining to law and order has often led to demands for a CBI inquiry in these cases, although they lie in the domain of the states, which  points to...
  • Reversing the Trend: Can Myanmar Unite India and China?
    Julien Levesque    ·   08 Mar, 2008    ·    #2513    ·    Commentary    
    The past two decades have placed Myanmar at the center of the India-China rivalry in Southeast Asia, resulting from India's shift in its Myanmar policy in the early 1990s. After harshly denying any legitimacy to the military government...
  • Sagarika: A Feather in India's Defense Hat
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   08 Mar, 2008    ·    #2512    ·    Commentary    
    On 26 February, India test fired its first undersea ballistic missile, Sagarika, from a pontoon 10km off the coast of Visakhapatnam; it proved that India has acquired the capability to launch missiles from underwater. The Sagarika missile with a...
  • Musharraf and the 'TINA' Factor
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   08 Mar, 2008    ·    #2511    ·    Commentary    
    Even to democracy enthusiasts, a post-Musharraf Pakistan, visualized as a democratic ideal, lies in the fairly distant future. A reading of the General's bestselling autobiography informs that although many want the General to fade away, he ...
  • Scientific Temper and Naxal Violence in Bihar
    Kamla Singh    ·   08 Mar, 2008    ·    #2510    ·    Commentary    
    The Indian Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, made an astonishing revelation recently that a large share of development funds is appropriated by Naxal outfits. Their terror mechanism has spread across the country gravely affecting its development. Th...
  • Gen. Moeen U Ahmed's Visit to India: Timely and Significant
    Harun ur Rashid    ·   08 Mar, 2008    ·    #2509    ·    Commentary    
    The six-day visit of the Bangladesh Army Chief, Gen. Moeen U Ahmed to India from 25th February is significant in many ways, given the importance of bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India. The visit assumes added connotation at a time w...
  • Defence Budget 2008: Action Replay
    Ajay Lele    ·   05 Mar, 2008    ·    #2508    ·    Commentary    
    For the first time in India's history, its defence budget has exceeded Rs.1 lakh core, increasing from Rs.96,000 crore in 2007-08 to Rs. 105,600 crore in the current budget. The fiscal deficit for 2008-09 has been estimated to be Rs.1...
  • Kosovo Crisis: No End in Sight
    Sonali Huria    ·   05 Mar, 2008    ·    #2507    ·    Commentary    
    As Kosovo rejoices in its new-found 'freedom,' thousands of enraged Bosnian Serbs continue to pour into Belgrade to protest the breaking away of a province that is considered Serbia's cultural and religious nucleus. There have been s...
  • Concepts of Left-wing Extremism
       ·   04 Mar, 2008    ·    #2506    ·    Commentary    
    Report of IPCS Seminar held on 23 February 2008 Chair: Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee Speaker: D M Mitra, Director, National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science Introductory Remarks Left wing extremism is a very co...
  • Maharashtra: Systematic Naxal Penetration Deep into the Mainland
    Maitreya Buddha Samantaray    ·   04 Mar, 2008    ·    #2505    ·    Commentary    
    The anti-migrant backlash in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra held centrestage in the local, national, and international media until recently. Acts of vandalism by Raj Thackeray and his followers and the verbal duel between the political pa...
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