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  • Northeastern Insurgents in Bhutan: Time for a Pro-active Action
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #556    ·    Commentary    
    It is a classic case of protracted insurgency overflowing into the territory of India 's neighbour. The July 31, 2001 attack on a truck carrying Bhutanese forest officials by unidentified terrorists, apart from evoking sympa...
  • A Border Guards Organization for Anti-Terrorist Operations
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #555    ·    Commentary    
    Indian intelligence has chosen to remain myopic, both in terms of space (neighours, relevant nations and superpowers) and time (present and future); all our wars in 1947, 1962, 1965 1971 and 1999 bear testimony of this statement. We did not have f...
  • Does the US non-proliferation policy make any difference in South Asia?
       ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #554    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Raju G. C. Thomas     Allia Chalmers Professor of International Affairs, Marquette University     The two general purposes of the US non-proliferation policy are: ...
  • Kashmir: The Way Ahead – Part II
       ·   24 Aug, 2001    ·    #553    ·    Commentary    
        Interview with G Parthasarthy, Former High Commissioner of India at Pakistan     At the summit in Agra and before, Pakistan has been insisting that Kashmir ...
  • Talking with the NSCN-IM : From Paris to Bangkok to Amsterdam – Part 2
    Shivaji Mukherjee    ·   21 Aug, 2001    ·    #552    ·    Commentary    
    The four-year ceasefire between the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the Union government has failed because it has not yielded any negotiated political settlement. While it has satisfied the short-term goal of brin...
  • Talking with the NSCN-IM: From Paris to Bangkok to Amsterdam – Part 1
    Shivaji Mukherjee    ·   21 Aug, 2001    ·    #551    ·    Commentary    
    In tackling the threat from the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), the Union government seems trapped in a contradictory strategy of its own making.      One horn of this strategy is the gov...
  • Balance of Payment and India’s Sovereignty
       ·   21 Aug, 2001    ·    #550    ·    Commentary    
    Since the beginning of the Second Five Year Plan, India has experienced a balance of payments (BOP) problem. India entered the nineties with large internal and external financial imbalances. This made the economy vulnerable to exog...
  • Russian Arms in Indian Forces
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   18 Aug, 2001    ·    #549    ·    Commentary    
    During the preceding year, India has finalised several long-pending defence contracts with Russia worth nearly $3 billion for 150 SU-30MKI multi-role fighters, a more powerful version of the 40 MI-17 IV helicopters and 310 T-90S main b...
  • Scope for promotion of Sino-Indian relations
    Abanti Bhattacharya    ·   18 Aug, 2001    ·    #548    ·    Commentary    
    After the 1962 India-China War our discussions on Sino-Indian relations seem to revolve around the question on how China perceives us and vice-versa. Staying in Shanghai for a year made me feel Indians just don't matter to the Chin...
  • The Place of Atomic Power in Energy Security
       ·   18 Aug, 2001    ·    #547    ·    Commentary    
    The following is a report on the Friday Group Discussions held on 27 July, 2001 in the IPCS. The main speaker was Mr. Stanislav E. Barkovskiy who is the representative in India of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic E...
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