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  • Poor Policing and Weak Intelligence Gathering
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   10 Oct, 2007    ·    #2391    ·    Commentary    
    On 3 October 2007 the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil outlined some crucial concerns in the fight against terrorism in New Delhi, at the conference of Directors-General and Inspectors-General of Police, like low police-population ratio, inadeq...
  • Non-Traditional Security and International Cooperation between China and India
       ·   10 Oct, 2007    ·    #2390    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Prof. Wang Dehua, Director, Institute of South and Central Asia Studies, Shanghai The concept of "non-traditional security" in China is very new, with the term being rarely spoken of about three years ago. However, in recent ye...
  • Myanmar in Turmoil and the Indian Response
    Anushree Bhattacharya    ·   04 Oct, 2007    ·    #2389    ·    Commentary    
    On 15 August 2007, the military-ruled Myanmar government hiked the prices of diesel and petrol by 100 per cent and of compressed natural gas used by buses by 500 per cent. The resultant sharp price rise brought further economic hardships to an a...
  • The November Elections and the Nepali Maoists
    Uddhab P Pyakurel    ·   04 Oct, 2007    ·    #2388    ·    Commentary    
    The Nepalese are enthusiastic to draft their own constitution through the convening of a Constituent Assembly (CA), an unfulfilled demand for the last six decades. Till September, there was hope that the November elections will take place and th...
  • Combating International Terrorism
       ·   01 Oct, 2007    ·    #2387    ·    Commentary    
    Report of Seminar held at the IPCS on 24 September 2007 Speaker: Raphael Francis Perl Terrorism and Security Analyst Congressional Research Service (CRS), Washington DC, USA India and the US both face the threat of terrorism. Even whil...
  • The Baloch Angle
    Chiranjib Haldar    ·   01 Oct, 2007    ·    #2386    ·    Commentary    
    Balochistan seems to be in the news for all the right or wrong reasons. Is it because it straddles Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, borders the Arabian Sea, and is a vast and sparsely populated province occupying 43 per cent of Pakistani territor...
  • India-Myanmar Relations
       ·   01 Oct, 2007    ·    #2385    ·    Commentary    
    Report of Seminar held at the IPCS on 18 September 2007 Chair: Amb Eric Gonsalves Panelists: Mr Soe Myint, Editor, Mizzima News Prof Baladas Ghoshal, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research Prof Man Mohini Kaul, Associate Professor,...
  • Thailand's Investment Strategy in India's Northeast
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   29 Sep, 2007    ·    #2384    ·    Commentary    
    During his four-day visit to Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura from 21-25 June 2007, Thailand's Commerce Minister, Krik Krai Jirapet expressed interest in investing in the region and identified it as a zone of convergence between Thailand's L...
  • India's Look East Policy: Issues Ignored
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   29 Sep, 2007    ·    #2383    ·    Commentary    
    Since 2005, the geographical canvas of India's Look East Policy (LEP) has expanded considerably, with the formation of East Asia Summit and India's increasing involvement in the East Asian Community, bringing into its ambit new players a...
  • Assam Accord and Illegal Migrants: Threat to Survival or Surviving the Threat?
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   28 Sep, 2007    ·    #2382    ·    Commentary    
    The illegal migrants issue is a perennial problem facing the Northeastern states of India. Notwithstanding Assam, the entire region is affected by the evolving complexities of this problem. Therefore, it is pertinent to examine the various facto...
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