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India needs to take a humane view of Rohingya issue0
- Blog, Issue 22 - Fall 2017
- September 6, 2017
By Bawa Singh Given its rich mineral resources, historical and civilizational ties and strategic location, sharing maritime and land borders, Myanmar holds a pivotal position in India’s Act East Policy. However, Rohingya refugees (from Myanmar) have become a serious security concern not only for Myanmar, India and Bangladesh but for the entire region. Indian Prime
READ MOREIndia: Manufacturing Misguided Protests In Northeast0
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- September 6, 2017
September 5, 2017 By Nava Thakuria Can Assam, a northeast Indian province, be placed on a red-hot pan anytime by few motivated leaders even though for a wrong reason? If most of the Assamese speaking people often listen to a section of biased intellectuals, who make statements time to time with little or without any
READ MOREIndian politics: Karnataka becomes murder hub of Hindutva criminal squad!0
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- September 6, 2017
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal Intolerance to criticism is fast growing in the operation of RSS-Hindutva forces. Today, for the first time, a hard core RSS operative Kovind is the President of India. This signals what is likely to happen in India during and after his tenure. Whether or not the incumbent president would support crimes
READ MORETrump’s new strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia: What does it mean to India?1
- Blog, Issue 22 - Fall 2017
- September 6, 2017
By Dr. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza 06/09/2017 “America’s enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. I will not say when we are going to attack, but attack we will.” These words, part of Donald Trump’s strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia announced on August 21, were intended to highlight the novelty
READ MOREMYANMAR MILITARY’S ADDICTION TO POLITICAL POWER1
- Blog, Issue 22 - Fall 2017
- September 6, 2017
– F R Chowdhury Myanmar (previously known as Burma) is a vast country of 676,550 sq. km. or 261,217 sq. Miles on the north-east coast of Bay of Bengal. It is between Bangladesh and Thailand though it has also long shared a border with India and China. Its population is only about 49 million. The
READ MOREAs Rohingyas flee Myanmar, India needs to drop religious criteria in its refugee law0
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- September 6, 2017
Nafees Ahmad, South Asian University More than 90,000 Rohingyas, victims of a new surge of violence in Myanmar, are fleeing the country and pouring into Bangladesh, while 30,000 people are still trapped near the border. At the same time, the government of the prime minister of India – who is due to visit Myanmar this
READ MOREAmid the Dokalam standoff, Narendra Modi meets Xi Jinping in China briefly!0
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- September 5, 2017
-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal September 5, 2017 Even as the debate on who won the Dokalam standoff remains inconclusive, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to China to attend the BRICS in Xiamen and went up to Chinese President Xi Jinping to shake hands on the venue stage. The Chinese and the Indian troops were
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China, Russia support North Korea, urge USA for talks at UN!0
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- September 5, 2017
-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal Russia and China – allies of North Korea- have vigorously defended the nuclear actions of North Korea. The latest Hydrogen Bomb test has sent tremors across the western world represented by the NATO. USA, Japan, and South Korea have condemned the missile firing in the strongest possible ways. China has once
READ MOREXi Jinping opens BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China!0
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- September 5, 2017
September 5, 2017 Dr. Abdul Ruff Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday the August 04 opens an annual summit of BRICS leaders. The BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — had gathered in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen hoping to counter accusations that the group of big emerging economies was drifting
READ MOREMR. MODI’S CABINET RESHUFFLE GIVES CONFIDENCE0
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- September 4, 2017
After three years as Prime Minister, Mr. Modi has several achievements to his credit which have long term and far reaching implications for India. However, his governance is not without blemishes, which have been mostly caused due to the acts of commission and omission by his party men. The pledged critics of Mr. Modi have
READ MOREMaldives: Whither ‘international community’?0
- Blog, Issue 22 - Fall 2017
- September 4, 2017
N Sathiya Moorthy, 1 September 2017 With politics in the country dead-locked, the questions in the lips and minds of every Maldivian are these: Where is the so-called ‘international community’? What is its intention? What is its capability in a given context? And have they ever matched their intention and capabilities, fair or unfair, to
READ MOREMyanmar conflict: Fake photos inflame tension0
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- September 3, 2017
By Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent Image copyright Bettmann/Getty Image caption This photo is from Bangladesh in 1971 but is being shared on social media to describe Rohingya people in Myanmar as terrorists A recent surge in violence in the northern part of Myanmar’s Rakhine state has been accompanied by a slew of misleading
READ MOREDeath in Bangladesh doesn’t draw a crowd like Melania0
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- September 3, 2017
Peter Preston Issues of diversity and representation in news are not simply a matter of who is doing the reporting, but also of what the audience chooses to read Donald and Melania – in a much-remarked-upon outfit – depart for Houston. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty ImagesSunday 3 September 2017 02.00 EDT One foreign reporting job from long
READ MOREThe Gulf crisis: Fighting it out down and dirty0
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- September 3, 2017
Source: Middle East Eye By James M. Dorsey In the three-month old Gulf crisis, nothing is too expensive or too down and dirty when it comes to buying influence, garnering soft power, and trying to win hearts and minds. It is a battle fought primarily by the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, the Gulf’s two
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