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  • Indo-Sri Lanka Trade Ties
       ·   03 Nov, 2003    ·    #1197    ·    Commentary    
    On 29th December 1998, India and Sri Lanka signed a landmark agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area to promote economic cooperation which became operational in March 2000. The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was expected to spur Indo-Sri ...
  • India and Japan: Emerging Engagement
    Mohammed Badrul Alam    ·   03 Nov, 2003    ·    #1196    ·    Commentary    
    Both Japan and India are two of the oldest civilizations of the world with a shared past dating back to the time of Buddha. After India achieved independence, its first Prime Minister Nehru looked upon Japan as a friendly nation in Asia that cou...
  • China and Taiwan Spar in Cyberspace
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   01 Nov, 2003    ·    #1195    ·    Commentary    
    In September this year, Taiwan repelled a mainland attack of Trojan Horse viruses on its government computer systems. Chinese hackers had introduced more than a score different Trojan Horse programs, into the networks of ten private high-tech co...
  • Vajpayee and Musharraf at the UN (Urdu Media Survey 1- 15 October 2003)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   31 Oct, 2003    ·    #1194    ·    Commentary    
    Hurriyat Crisis In its lead news the bilingual Alsafa (04 October 2003) reported "Abbas Ansari, (Chairman, Ansari group) ready to resign", and referred to the statement of Ansari that, “it is unfair and un...
  • Fencing India's Eastern Border: Logic and Hurdles
    Bidhan S Laishram    ·   27 Oct, 2003    ·    #1193    ·    Commentary    
    The global age of time-space compression has been celebrated for bringing about a retreat of the international nation-state system. The fluidity of boundaries in conditions of globality is challenging the congruence of peoples and territories, e...
  • India’s New Peace Initiative
    PR Chari    ·   24 Oct, 2003    ·    #1192    ·    Commentary    
    Be this said of the BJP-led NDA government that its foreign policy initiatives vis-à-vis Pakistan are characterised by strategic surprise. India’s nuclear tests in May 1998 shocked the world. Thereafter India made...
  • Nuclear Proliferation: Disarmament, the Only Way Out
    Lt. Gen. AM Vohra    ·   23 Oct, 2003    ·    #1191    ·    Commentary    
                While the US is taking steps to prevent North Korea and Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, it has proposed a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to search planes, ships, tr...
  • Missiles and Crisis Stability
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   23 Oct, 2003    ·    #1190    ·    Commentary    
    India and Pakistan do not fight wars; they indulge in periodic crisis, testifying, in the eyes of their security establishments, to the robustness of their respective conventional and nuclear deterrents. The time between crises is spent in crisi...
  • China’s Manned Space Flight: A Multi-dimensional Mission
    Ajay Lele    ·   23 Oct, 2003    ·    #1189    ·    Commentary    
    China’s successful manned space mission lasting 21hours has made them the third country in the world to put a human being into orbit after the Soviets and the Americans. This success is a result of eleven years of meticulous planning. Acco...
  • New Sanctuary for Terror
    Anand Kumar    ·   23 Oct, 2003    ·    #1188    ·    Commentary    
    Bangladesh does not belong to the category of Afghanistan and Pakistan as far as Islamic extremism and terrorism is concerned. But of late it has gained a dubious distinction as a safe haven for terrorists on the run.   When...
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