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LAUDABLE MOVE OF ASSAM GOVERNMENT IN INDIA TO CONTROL POPULATION0
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- September 21, 2017
Assam government has approved a proposal to insist that each family in the state should have not more than two children. The Assam government proposes to deny several privileges to those bearing more than two children including the denial of state government jobs. They cannot contest the local body elections. This is a much-needed step
Rohingya Exodus the Fastest, Most Concentrated Refugee Movement in Asia Since 19710
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- September 20, 2017
By Tom Felix Joehnk on 19/09/2017 Nearly one month into the humanitarian catastrophe and emerging regional security crisis, the world is still waiting for a meaningful reaction. Rohingya refugees walk on the muddy path after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 3, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ An uncle of mine, a reporter
Suu Kyi silence on Myanmar ethnic cleansing charge draws cool response0
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- September 20, 2017
Antoni Slodkowski, David Brunnstrom NAYPYITAW, Myanmar/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday condemned rights abuses in Rakhine state and said violators would be punished, but she did not address U.N. accusations of ethnic cleansing, drawing cool international responses and calls for action to help minority Muslims. Suu Kyi made the
Seeking publicity in the name of absurd religious sentiments0
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- September 19, 2017
by Gaurav Tyagi Gaurav Tyagi, reflects on the recent row over an Australian advertisement for meat. India has lodged a diplomatic protest with Australia over the ad. The Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) in India also raised objections to it and sought a boycott of Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) and a ban on their products.
India, Multilateralism and the national interest in a realist approach0
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- September 19, 2017
Luciane Noronha M. de Oliveira The 9th BRICS Summit was held in Xiamen, China, between 5-9 September, only a few days after the announcement of the disengagement of troops along the Doklam Plateau. The joint declaration stated that terrorism is a threat to be fought, naming Pakistan-based Jaish-e Mohammad (JeM) Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Haqqani Network
India needs to look internally not externally0
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- September 19, 2017
India is over-sensitive about China’s engagement in South Asia. China’s defense minister visiting Sri-Lanka and Nepal was hyped up a lot in Indian media during March. (1) Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Yang holding talks with his Nepali counterpart last month also made India quite anxious. (2) This is an assertion of India’s underlying tribal and collectivist
Indian politics: 18 rebel MLAs lose membership as Tamil Nadu assembly speaker sacks them!0
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- September 19, 2017
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal As a sort of climax, the ruling AIADMK has finally has shown the door to the problematic rebel MLAs who are being used as a useful tool of threatening the government by TTV Dinakaran on behalf of jailed Sasikala. In a massive setback for ousted All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Being a ‘Refugee/Repatriate’ from Burma – But in 1942, Not 20170
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- September 19, 2017
By Rekha Suresh Kumar on 17/09/2017 • 1 Comment Hundreds of thousands of Indians fled Burma when Japan invaded in 1942, including my father and his family. Indians walking to cross the border with Burma in 1942. Courtesy: cbi-theater.com While rummaging through some old papers at home some time ago, I came across a slim,
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China, Nepal to focus on cross-border Railway!0
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- September 19, 2017
-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal Pivot Like USA and Russia that have assumed Asia pivot to influence the continent, China also has its own Asia pivot, but it also has South Asia pivot too trying to woo the nations to come under its new Silk route program nicknamed the ‘One Belt, One Road (OBOR)’ initiative. China’s
Rohingya crisis: this is what genocide looks like0
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- September 18, 2017
Alicia de la Cour Venning, Queen Mary University of London The world is witnessing a state-orchestrated humanitarian catastrophe on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border. The latest UN figures show a staggering 370,000 Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh since August 25. An unknown number have perished. Around 26,000 non-Muslims have also been displaced. This is just the latest
Signs of hope in the Middle East? Don’t hold your breath0
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- September 18, 2017
By James M. Dorsey Optimists see hopeful signs that the Middle East may be exiting from a dark tunnel of violence, civil war, sectarian strife, and debilitating regional rivalries. The Islamic State (IS) is on the cusp of territorial defeat in Syria and Iraq. Saudi Arabia may be groping for an exit from its
Memorandum From Kashmir Centre for Social and Development Studies (KCSDS)0
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- September 17, 2017
Dear Members of the visiting Congress delegation, KCSDS is an Advocacy Centre and the largest civil society formation in the state. It highlights and carries out advocacy on all issues of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political nature It also acts as a watchdog on the government. In other words, it builds an opinion
