By Bhaskar Roy The clock on Afghanistan will not stop ticking to give extra time to the main stake holders to arrive at a reasonable conclusion. The situation at the moment, given President Hamid Karzai’s political calisthenics, Pakistan’s new approach to worm into Afghanistan, the Taliban’s obduracy and the American tiredness, there is no question [...]
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By Shresht Jain Except few stints, one of which being Vietnam supporting its ideological partner China during the Indo-China war of 1962, the India-Vietnam relationship has remained exceptionally cordial since its foundation was laid by Prime Minister Nehru and Ho Chi Minh more than five decades ago. The relationship has nurtured more since the inception [...]
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The 2013 UN Arms Treaty has been heralded as a milestone document that has the potential to curb the weapons trade, but there is a need to take a more critical look at this document and its implications for global conflict. By Fabio Andres Diaz On April 2nd this year the UN adopted the Arms Trade [...]
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By Shamshad A. Khan In a bid to restore public trust in the country’s nuclear energy programme and to assuage the concerns of the anti-nuclear groups, Japan has enacted a new nuclear safety regime which came into effect on July 8. The newly created Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) imposes stricter safety measures on operators to [...]
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The US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue epitomises the growing institutionalisation of relations between Washington and Beijing. Such US-China dialogue mechanisms are more important and useful than their critics assume. By Hoo Tiang Boon As a framework for managing a multifaceted and complex relationship, the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) is the leading government-to-government summit between [...]
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By Hubertus Hoffmann Abdul Chaum Ansari is a mild-mannered and friendly man with a face marked by history. The spokesman and director of the museum of the important Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan confirmed the message of peace in Islam: “Islam is Peace. After the fight, the Prophet Mohammad had good relations with [...]
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By Mark Snowiss The top U.S. military officer has warned that intervening in Syria’s civil war would cost billions of dollars, might escalate quickly and could turn into a highly risky endeavor for the United States. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided a list of options for Congress to halt [...]
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Well, Anthony Weiner is at it again. An anonymous woman has laid claims that the former congressman and current New York City mayoral candidate sent her sexually explicit messages and lewd images over the Internet more than a year after similar behavior gave way to a high-profile scandal that eventually forced the Democratic lawmaker to [...]
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Introduction India, the world’s largest democracy, has an almost palpable energy, the energy of youth, of inventiveness, and of aspiration. On the very first day of India’s independence, Prime Minister Nehru noted that India was, as he put it, “on the verge of bold advance.” There can be no doubt that India is very boldly [...]
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Dozens of people, including parliamentarians, ministers and reporters, have been blocked inside the Bulgarian parliament building by a crowd of anti-government protesters, local media reported. According to Bulgarian news website Novinite.com, some 109 people were trapped inside the building. Protesters clashed with police in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Tuesday, which was the 40th day [...]
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By Dana MacLean Influential Buddhist monks in Myanmar have been aggravating longstanding tensions between the country’s Buddhist and Muslim communities since violence erupted between the two groups in 2012, say experts. “The Burmese Buddhist monks may not have initiated the violence but they rode the wave and began to incite more,” said Michael Jerryson, a [...]
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Peru should uphold its obligation to respect the independence of the Constitutional Court and the ombudsman by adhering to an impartial and objective appointment process for all candidates to the posts, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 17, 2013, the Peruvian Congress appointed six new members to the Constitutional Court of Peru, a new [...]
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Copperhead was a name for Northern Democrats opposed to the Civil War. Now it’s also the name of a remarkable new film: CopperheadTheMovie.com. This is not the first film about a family opposed to the Civil War. Many will probably recall the 1965 film Shenandoah starring Jimmy Stewart. But Copperhead is the one to see. [...]
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My teacher says, “A soldier who thinks that he is designed to kill in today’s fourth generation war (4GW) makes a poor professional”. The incessant blunders by armed forces in Kashmir or Northeast India reveal the non-professional approach of Indian soldiers/policemen. It goes without saying that, soldiering/policing today is not just neutralising the enemy, but encompasses [...]
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What would it have taken for the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman to find him guilty? Well, try this on for size: imagine that instead of emerging from his encounter with Trayvon Martin bloodied with a broken nose, he didn’t have a scratch on him. Imagine he had also admitted he confronted Martin with gun [...]
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By Prof. V. Suryanarayan Thirty nine years have elapsed since the signing of the India-Sri Lanka Maritime Boundary Agreement, 1974, which delimited the maritime boundary in the Palk Bay. As a consequence of delimitation the island of Kachchatheevu was gifted to Sri Lanka. The tiny island was a part of the Zamindari of the Raja [...]
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By Bhaskar Roy Bangladesh Foreign Minister Ms. Dipy Moni will be in New Delhi on July 25, 2013 on a three day visit. It is expected to be a preparatory one paving the way for Prime Minister Sk. Hasina’s official visit in August at the invitation of the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. Ms. [...]
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Shares in Facebook have leapt 18% as it beats earnings expectations with stronger than expected mobile ad sales, BBC News reports. The company reported profits of $333m in the second quarter. “The work we’ve done to make mobile the best Facebook experience is showing good results and provides us with a solid foundation for the [...]
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The much-awaited refresh to the Google Nexus 7 series has finally been officially announced, Neowin reports. Having been leaked previously over and over, the specs confirm what most already know. Featuring a 7-inch HD screen with a 1920 x 1200 resolution (323 ppi), the device also packs an Adreno 320 GPU, a 1.5GHz snapdragon processor, [...]
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Tim Cook says Apple has some great stuff coming “in the fall, and across all of 2014” and the company’s latest earnings guidance may offer a clue, AllThingsD reports. For its fourth quarter, Apple said it expects revenue of $34 billion to $37 billion with gross margins of 36 percent to 37 percent. And according [...]
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