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The debates and delays over the Goods and Services Tax exemplify how fiscal federalism is evolving through threats to its original design and rearguard action by states. Rebalancing the centre-state relationship is not easy, but an enlightened fiscal federalism is indispensable to keeping the republic together
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Neelam Deo, director at Gateway House and former diplomat, comments on the rhetorical exchange between India and Pakistan and its impact on the forthcoming foreign secretary-level meeting scheduled for 25 August 2014
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The Khilafat movement started in Mumbai nearly 100 years ago in response to the dismantling of the Caliph-headed Ottoman Empire by the Allied powers. The present revival of the office of the Caliph by the Islamic State in West Asia, although rooted in a different context, evokes this sliver of Mumbai’s history
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A refugee policy that absolves more capable and resource rich nations of any responsibility towards transnational asylum seekers is archaic and has lived beyond its time. Keeping in mind the EU's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing causes of peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights, it is incumbent upon it to set new standards and reform its refugee policy
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With a 1600-kilometre-long shared border, and a maritime boundary in the North East, Myanmar is critical to India’s Look East policy. However, India has to look beyond the China bogey in order to find ways to truly consolidate ties with Myanmar
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Myanmar, currently listed as one of the least developed nations by the UN, provides its neighbouring countries the opportunity to invest in one of the world’s last few business frontiers. Sushma Swaraj on her maiden visit to Nay Pyi Taw should continue to strengthen ties based on economic goals to develop largely underdeveloped areas along the common border as well use Myanmar’s increasing weight in the ASEAN grouping
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Gateway House's Associate National Security Fellow Sameer Patil was quoted in an article on Channel News Asia on the Indian government's decision approving foreign investment in the railways and defense industries
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Gateway House's Associate National Security Fellow Sameer Patil was quoted in an article in The Taipei Times on the Modi's government decision to open the defense and railways industries to foreign investment
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Sameer Patil, Associate Fellow, National Security and Terrorism Studies, Gateway House was quoted in an article by Agence France-Press on the Indian'government's decision to raise the FDI ceiling in the defence manufacturing sector. The article was subsequently picked up
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Gateway House's Associate National Security Fellow Sameer Patil was quoted in an article in Newsweek Pakistan on the Indian government's decision to open the defense and railways industries to foreign investment.