The rise of fiscal terror By targetting the IT industry, terrorists are revealing that the Indian economy may increasingly be their target Sudhir Saxena | March 25, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Condi Rice visit to Delhi: Landmark in India-US Ties The just concluded visit to India (March 16) by Ms. Condi Rice, the US Secretary of State may be deemed a landmark pointing to a deeper strategic underpinning between the... C Uday Bhaskar | March 24, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Manmohan Doctrine and India’s External Relations The next four weeks will be very eventful for advancing India's relations with the major powers as Delhi prepares to receive US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (March 16), Japanese... C Uday Bhaskar | March 16, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Till the Dragon spits fire Putting an end to all speculations, protests from the media and other quarters and hectic Chinese diplomatic parleys in Brussels before the EU-China Summit in December 2004, the EU finally... Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay | March 10, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Troubled Road to SAFTA The proposal to reconvene the 13th SAARC Summit soon has rekindled the hopes of South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) coming into force on schedule on 01 Jan 2006. It... Alok Bansal | March 10, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Indo-Pak Peace Process: Keep the Process Afloat India-Pakistan interaction, in recent days, is fast losing its familiar flavour of distrust and bitterness. This is not to deny, however, that one can still identify the inertial sense of... Ashok K. Behuria | March 10, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Defence outlay-modest increase but shades of gray The defence expenditure (DE) announced today is Rs. 83,000 crores and this is a modest increase of Rs 6,000 crores or 7.7% over last year’s budgeted estimate (BE). C Uday Bhaskar | March 01, 2005 | IDSA Comments
China : Reactions to Iraq Elections China has not issued any official statement on the recently concluded elections in Iraq. However, in a Press Conference on February1, 2005, to a question on the elections, the Foreign... Raviprasad Narayanan | February 15, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Left-Wing Extremism in 2004: An Assessment While cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and multiple insurgencies in the Northeast remain the focus of India’s internal security planning, left-wing extremism (LWE) is gradually becoming another major source... Sanjay K Jha | February 03, 2005 | IDSA Comments
Reorganisation of Security Council A permanent seat in the United Nations (UN) Security Council seems well within India’s grasp. India’s long held aspirations of playing a more active role in the global affairs by... Alok Bansal | January 28, 2005 | IDSA Comments