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  • India's Foreign Policy: Post Manmohan Singh's New York Visit
       ·   31 Oct, 2005    ·    #1878    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: P R Chari Speaker: C Raja Mohan P R Chari: The Prime Minister's visit to New York in September against the backdrop of the Indo-US nuclear deal was the most important event in September, and has led to acceleration in thi...
  • J&K: Coping with Disaster
    D Suba Chandran    ·   28 Oct, 2005    ·    #1877    ·    Commentary    
    Twenty days have passed since the earthquake in Kashmir. The extent of the devastation has been almost tabulated in terms of human and material casualties in each village. Now, it is time to critically evaluate our immediate response and look in...
  • Energy Security: India Looks Ahead
    Parama Sinha Palit    ·   28 Oct, 2005    ·    #1876    ·    Commentary    
      The Indo-US civil nuclear deal seems to be the focus of all debates both in the government and in the academia across the country. India's quest for nuclear energy is well established. The Indian Foreign Secretary's call ...
  • Missile Stability in South Asia
       ·   27 Oct, 2005    ·    #1875    ·    Commentary    
    Maj Gen Banerjee In looking to their future, armed forces consider the strategic options available to them and like to know where technology is heading and what the options are. There are different ways of looking at war and how it ...
  • Kashmir: Should Mufti Continue?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   26 Oct, 2005    ·    #1874    ·    Commentary    
    According to the understanding reached between the Congress and the PDP after the 2002 elections for the J&K assembly, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed would be the Chief Minister of the PDP-led government for the first three years, after which the Con...
  • Pakistan-Israel Relations: A New Beginning?
    Beryl Anand    ·   26 Oct, 2005    ·    #1873    ·    Commentary    
    The 1 September meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mahmoud Kasuri - described by many observers as historic - was carved out of secret efforts by the pro-Islamic and pro-American Turkish...
  • Russia-China Military Exercises: Diplomatic and Security Implications
       ·   26 Oct, 2005    ·    #1872    ·    Commentary    
    Panelists: Srikant Kondapalli & Dr. Madhu Bhalla Chair: Major General Dipankar Banerjee Dipankar Banerjee The joint military exercises held last August were a significant development in Asia and has important implications ...
  • National Safeguards Against Biological Weapons: Are They Effective?
    KS Manjunath    ·   25 Oct, 2005    ·    #1871    ·    Commentary    
    Untitled Document The Biological Weapons Convention held its experts' meet on 'Code of Conducts' in June, 2005. Along with India, countries like Australia, Argentina, Canada, United Kingdom, Iran, Germany, Japan, China, South ...
  • Democracy in Maldives: Troubles of Transition
    Alok Bansal    ·   25 Oct, 2005    ·    #1870    ·    Commentary    
    The recent arrests of Opposition leaders in Maldives has severely jeopardized the island nation's planned transition to democracy and dented the credibility of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. These events question President Gayoom's comm...
  • Kashmir, India and Pakistan: From Massive Calamity To A New Opportunity?
       ·   25 Oct, 2005    ·    #1869    ·    Commentary    
    The 8 October 2005 earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale had its epicentre 100 km north of Islamabad. The worst affected areas are in PoK, where the death toll has crossed 50,000 as on 21 October. The perennially bickering sub-continenta...
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