Securitising Development and the Naxal Threat
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It has been generally accepted that the Naxal issue is more than a law and order problem. With the socio-economic dimension being increasingly important along with the military one, a...
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Rehabilitating Child Soldiers in Nepal
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In January 2007, the House of Representatives in Nepal, restored after the people's movement of April, 2006, unanimously adopted an interim Constitution and dissolved itself. This technically paved the way...
Read MoreChina’s Defence White Paper: Can India Draw Some Lessons?
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On 29 December 2006, China released its latest white paper on national defence. Though this document is widely perceived as opaque in budgetary facts and figures, it gives policy makers...
Read MorePresident Putin’s Visit to India
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Vladimir Putin's visit to India on January 25-26, 2007 provided fresh impetus to the strategic partnership between the two countries. The visit reinforced the interests of both states in maintaining...
Read MoreNaxalism in Chhattisgarh: Down, not wiped out
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Despite the Chhattisgarh government's two-pronged strategy of police operation combined with socio economic programmes against the Naxalites, there appears to be deterioration in the law and order situation in the...
Read MoreHopeless Search for Peace in the Aftermath of the Second Israel-Lebanon War
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As the dust slowly settles down over the battlefields of South Lebanon and North Israel, the major actors in this tragic drama are now debating ways and means to salvage...
Read MoreDealing with ULFA’s Terror
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The recent orgy of violence perpetrated by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has brought the issue of security of the common citizen in Assam to the fore again....
Read MoreLeT finds a new base in Manipur
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The first time arrest of three Manipuri Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) members in Delhi on December 19, 2006 indicated the existence of direct linkages between Pakistan-based terrorists and the Meitei Pangal (Muslim)...
Read MoreTime to Cross the Adam’s Bridge Again
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A recent survey by a Colombo-based agency on the peace process revealed that a majority of Sri Lankans prefers India as a peace facilitator rather than the Norwegians. According to...
Read MoreEconomics of Indo-US Nuclear Deal
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With President Bush signing the India-US nuclear co-operation bill into law, critics and supporters of the bill have once again reinforced their stated positions over the future benefits and losses...
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