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  • Democrat's Victory: Impact on Indo-US Courtship
    Ashok Sharma    ·   30 Nov, 2006    ·    #2161    ·    Commentary    
    Breaking a decade long Republican dominance over the Congress, the Democrats have finally come out victorious in the mid term November 2006 election. Democrats have hailed the results and called for bipartisanship even as they investigate Bush...
  • Armed Conflicts and Peace Processes in South Asia 2006
       ·   30 Nov, 2006    ·    #2160    ·    Commentary    
    (Report of the Book Discussion held on 20 November 2006 at IIC Annexe, New Delhi. The panel comprised of Dhirendra Singh, P Sahadevan, VG Patankar, Ajit Kumar Doval and EN Rammohan.) Dipankar Banerjee South Asian region, which...
  • Restive NDFB Banks on Sovereignty
    Rani Pathak    ·   29 Nov, 2006    ·    #2159    ·    Commentary    
      The National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB), Assam's best-known insurgent group other than the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), is still talking sense despite being restive over the long delay initiating the pe...
  • Hu's Visit: A Post-script
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   28 Nov, 2006    ·    #2158    ·    Commentary    
      The recent statement by the External Affairs Minister Shri Pranab Mukherji that China has actually 'endorsed' the Indo-US Nuclear Deal shows that President Hu Jintao's visit to India was not 'a passing visit'...
  • US Mid Term Elections 2006
       ·   27 Nov, 2006    ·    #2157    ·    Commentary    
    (Report of the IPCS Panel Discussion held on 16 November 2006. Panelists: Prof Chintamani Mahapartra, David Temple and Alex Stolar) Eric Gonzalves India and America are the two largest democracies. There remains a basic truth ...
  • Prospects of India-EU Free Trade Agreement
    Mriganka Achal    ·   24 Nov, 2006    ·    #2156    ·    Commentary    
    The recent India and European Union (EU) negotiations have generated a serious political debate on Free Trade Agreement (FTA), bilateral trade, economic cooperation and barriers to trade and investment. India and EU, considered one of the world&...
  • Parsing the votes: Congressional Politics and the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
    Sayan Banerjee    ·   24 Nov, 2006    ·    #2155    ·    Commentary    
    The Congressional approval and bipartisan support for the Indo-US nuclear deal defied conventional wisdom that the deal would face significant hardships in the Congress. That said the legislation in the US Congress could have been dead long ago ...
  • Bajaur Attack: Musharraf's Preempts; Militants' React
    Priyashree Andley    ·   23 Nov, 2006    ·    #2154    ·    Commentary    
    On 30 October 2006, the day the government was expected to sign a peace agreement with militants in Bajaur similar to the one signed in North Waziristan, missiles were fired on a madrassa in Damadola village in Bajaur agency. Later government re...
  • In the Line of Fire: Pakistan Army
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   21 Nov, 2006    ·    #2153    ·    Commentary    
    Pervez Musharraf's memoir 'In the Line of Fire' has deservedly drawn critical fire. The excuse is that he has been candid in keeping with his commando image. The resulting publicity has helped sell his book. Missing in the controvers...
  • Hu Jintao's Visit: Building a Cooperative Strategic Partnership
       ·   19 Nov, 2006    ·    #2152    ·    Commentary    
    (Excerpts of Interview with Ambassador CV Ranganathan by D Suba Chandran and Urvashi Aneja) I. POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC ISSUES It is important to realize that the ASEAN group of countries would like to leverage the growth of Ind...
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