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27 June 2011India-Pakistan: The stabilising mantra
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The run-up to the talks was low key. Neither side raised hopes of headline-grabbing developments. The absence of drama or excitement surrounding the June 23-24 round of talks between Nirupama Rao Tagged Under Al Qaeda , CBM , Indo-Pakistan , Islamabad , Lalit Mansingh , New Delhi , Nirupama Rao , nuclear weapons , Salman Bashir , Taliban |
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2 July 2011U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan: Politics wins over policy
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U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcement to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next year didn’t draw the cheers he might have expected for fulfilling his Tagged Under Afghanistan , Barack Obama , China , Hamid Karzai , Islamabad , Kabul , mike mullen , New Delhi |
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19 July 2011India-US: Converging interests, at last
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The second Indo-U.S. strategic dialogue is taking place in New Delhi during a sorrowful national moment and in fragile regional circumstances. The latest terrorist attack on Mumbai, by groups with Tagged Under Beijing , Bilateral ties , Hamid Karzai , Hillary Clinton , Indo-U.S. , Manmohan Singh , New Delhi , Strategic Dialogue |
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19 July 2011What nuclear no first use tells us
BY P M Kamath
Recently, Jaswant Singh, senior BJP leader, made a plea for India reviewing its commitment to No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons. In response, S M Krishna, the external affairs minister, Tagged Under Jaswant Singh , New Delhi , NFU , No first use , nuclear weapons , PLA , SM Krishna |
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22 July 2011Will India’s decreasing sex ratios endanger its global reputation?
BY Zara Rapoport
On Tuesday night, 19 July, I attended the Laadli National Creative Excellence Awards for Social Change awards ceremony, sponsored by Laadli, Population First, and United Nations Tagged Under girl child , New Delhi , population , sex ratio , women in foreign policy |
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29 July 2011Pakistan: Hope for an ailing democracy
BY Samyukta Lakshman
A day after Mumbai was struck by multiple bomb blasts on July 13, Philip Oldenburg, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and South Asia Scholar, stopped by the Gateway House Tagged Under Dawood Ibrahim , Hindu-Muslim , Indo-Pakistan , Islamabad , Jinnah , Kashmir , New Delhi , U.S. aid , Urdu |
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4 August 2011Gandhi dynasty: Politics as usual
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As the Indian television channels fell over each other to cover in minute detail, the unseemly succession drama of the Chief Minister of Karnataka, and the Comptroller and Auditor General’s naming Tagged Under A.K. Anthony , Ahmed Patel , Bangladesh , Congress party , Hillary Clinton , Janardhan Dwivedi , New Delhi , Rahul Gandhi , Sonia Gandhi |
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23 August 2011India and South Sudan: Potential Areas of Cooperation
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The Republic of South Sudan was born on 9 July, 2011 and joined the international comity of nations as the 193rd member of the United Tagged Under East African Community , Indo-Africa , Indo-Sudan , Juba , Khartoum , New Delhi , OVL , South Sudan , Sukumar Sen |
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8 August 2011Time to broaden strategic ties
BY Nitin Pai
One of India’s principal challenges in east Asia is that New Delhi’s strategy can only be effective if it builds sustainable geoeconomic relationships with countries with whom it shares Tagged Under fuel , Indo-Russia , military equipment , moscow , negotiations , New Delhi , oil , security council |
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30 August 2011India-Bangladesh: Saving the Sundarbans
BY Shloka Nath
Sitting on the sensitive border between India and Bangladesh is the Sundarbans, one of the most wondrous and also most endangered eco-systems in the world. It is a precious mangrove forest of 10, Tagged Under Dhaka , eco-system , environmental diplomacy , Indo-Bangladesh , Jairam Ramesh , Manmohan Singh , New Delhi , North East , Sheikh Hasina , Sundarbans , west bengal |