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Amid tension in the Arab world, Qatar signs $ 12 billion deal to buy F-15 jets from the USA! Some issues!0
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- June 28, 2017
28 June 2017 -Dr. Abdul Ruff The Foreign policy of President Trump is slowly but steadily working to increase its arms sale to the world. The advantages of arms trade for the USA without any expenditure on US part are great. Upon his visit to Saudi Arabia that resulted in tensions in the Arab world
ASIAN NATIONS NEED TO PUT CHINA ON NOTICE0
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- June 28, 2017
It is becoming increasingly apparent that China is suffering from sort of superiority obsession, imagining that it can dominate and conquer the world and it is adequately clever to do so. Several acts of China in the past prove such an approach which has been well noticed by the Asian nations, who now feel apprehensive
How the Recent NSG Plenary was Significant?0
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- June 28, 2017
By: Maimuna Ashraf The twenty-seventh Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), an elite nuclear cartel to control nuclear commerce, which was held in Switzerland this month on 22 and 23 June 2017 ended inconclusively on the issue of non-NPT state’s membership. India was struggling to whittle away the resistance for paving the way
In the Heart of Nepal’s Madhes Movement0
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- June 28, 2017
By Peter Gill and Bhola Paswan on 27/06/2017 The Madhesis continue to struggle to amend the constitution, even as they long to feel like they belong in Nepal. A street in the Rajbiraj bazaar. Credit: Peter Gill On June 10, the air was hot and humid in Rajbiraj, a city in Saptari District in the southeastern Terai,
In Junaid’s Village, an Eid Moon Felt, Not Sightedl0
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- June 28, 2017
By Sehba Imam on 26/06/2017 The senseless lynching of a young boy casts a pall of gloom over not just his home but his entire village. Zaira (left), mother of fifteen year old Junaid who was lynched on a train last Saturday. Credit: PTI Khandwali (Haryana): Fifteen-year-old Junaid’s lynching in Ballabhgarh, while he was returning from his Eid shopping, had
Even After Nikam’s Withdrawal From Case, Mohsin Shaikh’s Family Has Not Lost Hope for Justice0
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- June 28, 2017
By Prashant Kanojia on 26/06/2017 Mohsin’s 63-year-old father is unable to fathom why public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam took the sudden decision to withdraw at a critical juncture when charges are about to be framed against the accused. Mohsin Shaikh’s parents. Shaikh was lynched by a mob in Pune on 2nd June, 2014. Credit: The Wire
Behind Modi: The growing influence of the India lobby0
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- June 28, 2017
Ashok Sharma, University of New South Wales, Canberra at Australian Defence Force Academy One has 32.9 million Twitter followers; the other has 31 million. When U.S. President Donald Trump met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on June 26, Trump chose to draw attention to something the leaders have in common by
Why a ‘cashless’ society would hurt the poor: A lesson from India0
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- June 28, 2017
A bank official counts discontinued rupee notes. AP Photo/ Anupam Nath Dana Kornberg, University of Michigan India recently tried to reduce the use of cash in its economy by eliminating, overnight, two of its most widely used bills in what was called demonetization. While the effort – initially explained as an attempt to curb “black
Commentary
The pain is doubled when the government keeps saying Bangladesh has democracy2
- Commentary
- May 13, 2017
Sheikh Hasina has choked her grip on the citizens of Bangladesh using all kinds of rules and regulations. Bangladesh passport bill is the latest one. This law can refuse issuance or renewal of anyone’s passport if the government suspects someone to be anti-state. Mixing up the state with the government, anyone can be accused of
Ambassador Nikki Haley Is Completely Clueless0
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- February 26, 2017
Ambassador Nikki Haley Is Completely Clueless United States’ Nikki Haley. Photo Credit: Office of the President-elect, Wikipedia Commons. By Daniel McAdams February 26, 2017 Just when we thought the great national embarrassment of a UN Ambassador Samantha Power was over, we are suddenly faced with a new US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley,
Indian concerns over Maldives island-lease: It’s not about China but about sovereignty talk0
- Blog, Commentary, Issue 20 - Spring 2017
- February 2, 2017
Indian concerns over Maldives island-lease: It’s not about China but about sovereignty talk N Sathiya Moorthy, South Asia Monitor, 1 February 2017 At a New Year news conference in Male, Chinese Ambassador Wang Fukang reportedly expressed ‘surprise’ over “concerns raised by Indian journalists over the leasing of the Maldivian island of Feydhoo Finolhu (an uninhabited island
Will new leadership continue with Jayalalithaa’s policy priorities?0
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- December 17, 2016
N Sathiya Moorthy How the post-Jayalalitha leadership of new Chief Minister O Panneerselvam takes forward her initiatives remains to be seen It’s not only in the political arena that the demise of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa be felt for a long time to come. In the larger area of policy-formulation too, it would be