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  • India Ballistic Missile Defense Capabilities and Future Threats
    Neha Kumar    ·   12 Dec, 2007    ·    #2444    ·    Commentary    
    India carried out a series of anti-ballistic missile tests recently starting with an exo-atmosheric anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system test on 12 November 2007. This was followed by an endo-atmospheric test of a Prithvi missile defense system o...
  • Malaysia's Ethnic Indians Demand
    Yogendra Singh    ·   12 Dec, 2007    ·    #2443    ·    Commentary    
    On 25 November 2007, the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF), a group of Hindu NGOs led a demonstration of some 10,000 ethnic Indians in Malaysia demanding the same rights and opportunities as ethnic Malays. Ethnic Indians comprise 8 per cent of...
  • Chinese Assertion along the South Vietnamese Coast
    Pankaj Kumar Jha    ·   12 Dec, 2007    ·    #2442    ·    Commentary    
    China fired a salvo recently by pronouncing the exploration rights to blocks 127 and 128 given to ONGC by Vietnam in 2006 as illegal. A diplomatic demarche was issued by the Chinese Embassy in Delhi. The rights allow for exploration of gas which...
  • Ethnic Nationalities and the Myanmar Question
       ·   12 Dec, 2007    ·    #2441    ·    Commentary    
    Report of the Meeting held at the IPCS on 27 November 2007 Members of the Delegation of the Ethnic Nationalities Council of Burma (ENC) Dr. Lian H Sakhong General Secretary, ENC Harn Yawnghwe Director, Euro-Burma Office and Advisor, ENC ...
  • Mekong-Ganga Cooperation Initiative: India's Underused Soft Power Tool
    Julien Levesque    ·   11 Dec, 2007    ·    #2440    ·    Commentary    
    Writing about the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation Initiative (MGCI) a few weeks after its creation, V Jayanth argued that a great "responsibility [rests] on New Delhi to make a success of this venture" (The Hindu, 28 November 2000). Now seven...
  • Strengthening the Right to Information
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   11 Dec, 2007    ·    #2439    ·    Commentary    
    It has been more than two years since the Right to Information Act (RTI) came into force in October 2005. Immediately after its enforcement, a concern was expressed that adequate efforts were not being made in official quarters to implement the ...
  • The Congress (I)'s China Connection
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   08 Dec, 2007    ·    #2438    ·    Commentary    
    The October visit of Congress (I) president Sonia Gandhi to China underlined the growing intensity of political interactions between India and China. However, it is also instructive to analyze this visit in terms of inter-party interactions. ...
  • Adivasi Unrest in Assam
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   06 Dec, 2007    ·    #2437    ·    Commentary    
    The rally organized by the All Assam Adivasi Students Union in Guwahati on 24 November 2007 to demand Scheduled Tribe status led to unprecedented violence that will be a blot on Assam's image for quite some time. The government claimed ...
  • Pakistan's Strategic Assets in Times of Crisis
    Manpreet Sethi    ·   06 Dec, 2007    ·    #2436    ·    Commentary    
    In 2006, the US Quadrennial Defence Review had identified the prospects of a nuclear capable state losing control over its weapons to terrorists as the greatest danger facing the US. Today, the international community is faced with precisely suc...
  • Implications of Iran's Ashura Missile Test
    Neha Kumar    ·   05 Dec, 2007    ·    #2435    ·    Commentary    
    Iran claimed to have carried out a successful test of its long-range missile, Ashura, on 27 November 2007, which has the capability to strike targets in Israel and US bases in the Middle East. The missile is named after the Shia holy day of mour...
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