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  • Democracy & Development In Maldives
       ·   10 May, 2006    ·    #2011    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Hon. Ibrahim Hussain Zaki (Vice-President and Shadow Foreign Minister of the Maldivian Democratic Party) Discussant: Amb. Lalit Mansingh Lalit Mansingh Ibrahim Zaki has been the principle interlocutor between India and Mald...
  • Political Polarisation in Bangladesh
    Swati Parashar    ·   09 May, 2006    ·    #2010    ·    Commentary    
    The political polarisation between the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Awami League (AL) has caused extensive political and material damage besides diverting the attention of law enforcement agencies from pursuing the terrorists and e...
  • Promoting Strategic and Missile Stability in Southern Asia
       ·   09 May, 2006    ·    #2008    ·    Commentary    
    Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee, director of the Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies (IPCS), contextualised the conference as an "effort to reassess ways and means of ensuring strategic stability, given the strategic development ...
  • Islam and Democracy: India as a Moderating Influence
       ·   08 May, 2006    ·    #2007    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers: Dr Ashgar Ali Engineer & Prof Desh Raj Goyal Discussants: Amb. Bhadrakumar & Partha S Ghosh Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee Thomas Friedman first mentioned the phenomenon that while Muslims from around the world joined ...
  • NDFB: Time To Return To The Jungles?
    Rani Pathak    ·   08 May, 2006    ·    #2006    ·    Commentary    
      The year-long ceasefire between the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) and the Indian government ends on 31 May 2006, unless it is extended further. During the year that elapsed, the NDFB has remained consistent in its...
  • Looking Beyond the Doda Massacre
    D Suba Chandran    ·   06 May, 2006    ·    #2005    ·    Commentary    
    On 1 May 2006, militants killed 35 persons belonging to the Hindu community in calibrated attacks in two incidents at Doda and Udhampur. In Doda district, the militants attacked two remote villages more than 25 kms away from Doda at midnight; fo...
  • Peace Process in Sri Lanka
    AM Vohra    ·   06 May, 2006    ·    #2004    ·    Commentary    
    After four years of truce, the Sri Lankan peace process is under severe strain. The Sri Lankan elections of November 2005 brought the United People's Freedom Alliance into power with the support of the hardliners. Mahinda Rakapakse was sworn...
  • EU-India: Strategic Partners?
       ·   04 May, 2006    ·    #2003    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: Major General Dipankar Banerjee, Director, IPCS Speaker: Dr Jean-Yves Haine, Research Fellow For European Security, IISS Major General Dipankar Banerjee Recent years have witnessed some developments in Indo-EU relations, e...
  • Pakistan, Taliban and the Indian Stakes in Afghanistan
    Happymon Jacob    ·   02 May, 2006    ·    #2002    ·    Commentary    
    The abduction and killing of K Suryanarayana, an Indian national, is yet another incident in the anti-Indian activities of the Taliban. Suryanarayana, a contractor for Afghan mobile telephone network, Roshan, was kidnapped and killed in the Zabu...
  • Implications of The Unfolding Situation in Nepal
       ·   01 May, 2006    ·    #2001    ·    Commentary    
    As the euphoria of Nepal's revolution wears thin, the main players - the SPA and Maoists - need to address hard realities. They will now have to come together to create new democratic forces and structures attuned to the aspirations of the p...
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