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Sri Lanka: Why is no one talking about an ‘insolvent’ economy?0
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- September 5, 2019
N Sathiya Moorthy 3 September 2019 The irony of Sri Lanka in the second decade of the second millennium is that everyone can blame everyone else without having to acknowledge his own contribution or owning up his share of the blame. It extends from corruption, to lawlessness to democracy-threats and the elimination of ethnic Tamil
READ MOREMaldives: Solih begins taking rough with the smooth0
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- September 5, 2019
N Sathiya Moorthy 2 September 2019 From an unsubstantiated charge of bribe-taking as the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, when predecessor Abdulla Yameen was in power, to an emerging controversy about ‘packing’ the nation’s Supreme Court with sympathisers of the ruling party, in the name of judicial reforms, to quietly neutralising emerging internal challenges,
READ MOREGulf wealth: All that glitters is not gold0
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- September 5, 2019
By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Patreon, Podbean and Castbox. Little suggests that fabulously wealthy Gulf states and their Middle Eastern and North African beneficiaries have recognized what is perhaps the most important lesson of this year’s popular uprisings
READ MORECalling Nuclear Bluff on Balakot: India’s ‘Choreographed’ Corporal Punishment to Pakistan0
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- September 2, 2019
By Adnan Qaiser September 2019 While the history of South Asia is written in blood; it is also inked in phony prides and misplaced jingoism. At predawn on 26 February 2019, India carried out its second surgical strike in Pakistan.[1] The attack, similar to the one India had conducted on 29 September 2016,[2] struck Pakistan
READ MORENew Delhi’s ties with Dhaka crucial1
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- September 2, 2019
By Manoj Kumar Mishra September 2, 2019 Bangladesh was concerned over the possibilities of exclusion and deportation of many Bangladeshis once the process of preparing the final citizenship list in Assam was over. However, addressing a press conference in Dhaka after meeting with his counterpart A K Abdul Momen, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar
READ MOREKartarpur Corridor: Undoing Historical Wrong0
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- September 1, 2019
by Rushali Saha 1 September 2019 The recent statement by Pakistan that it is committed to complete the Kartarpur Corridor despite tense ties with India is a welcome move. Although it might be intended to paint India’s international image as the aggressor and Pakistan as the patron of peace in the region, India should not
READ MOREProtest: The King is dead, long live the king0
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- August 29, 2019
By James M. Dorsey 29 August 2019 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, and Patreon, Podbean and Castbox. Protest is back on the front burner. Protesters occupy streets in cities ranging from Hong Kong and Moscow to Khartoum and Algiers. They would likely
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Reassessing Kashmir in the land of Rishi Kashyap1
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- August 29, 2019
by Nava J. Thakuria 29 August 2019 Reassessing Kashmir in the land of Rishi Kashyap by Nava Thakuria That was an amazing interaction with a senior journalist based in Jammu which was organized through the video-conference at a time when there is wild rumour that entire Jammu & Kashmir was under strict internet censorship as
READ MORENuclear doctrine: Ramifications of India’s No-first Use policy0
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- August 29, 2019
by Dr. Rajkumar Singh 29 August 2019 An extraordinary situation has arisen in India -Pakistan relations since the Indian Government abrogated Article 370 and 35A of the Constitution of India. Although it has been done in the name of the development of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, it fuelled much internal and external reactions
READ MOREBehavioral Economics is fast becoming relevant to develop Sustainable Development Goals0
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- August 29, 2019
by Dr Fawad Kaiser 29 August 2019 There is a new commitment to develop Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and we are witnessing a shift in paradigm in the conceptualization of development, from seeing it mainly as economic growth, to conceptualizing it as healthy, human centered sustainable development. Civil society is contributing to this new way
READ MORESri Lanka new army Chief: Silva elevation and after0
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- August 28, 2019
N Sathiya Moorthy 27 August 2019 As anticipated, the appointment of Lt-Gen Shavendra Silva as the 23rd Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has raised concerns in western capitals especially, even as their ‘Eastern counterparts’, including not only China but also Japan, have looked the other way. If anything, Japan, acting alone or in consort
READ MOREBangladesh : Challenge of export diversification: Reforming trade policy0
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- August 28, 2019
Implementation review of the First Perspective Plan 2010-2021 Shamsul Alam | August 27, 2019 In 2009 soon after assuming power, the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recognised that the development challenges for the country were many and progress would require a long-term vision and a systematic approach to development. Accordingly, the government adopted
READ MOREDangerous Speech in Real Time: Social Media, Policing, and Communal Violence0
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- August 27, 2019
The article examines how a set of key actors—the police, civil society and social media platforms responded to a series of violent incidents in Pune in 2014 that resulted in the death of Mohsin Sheikh. The hate speech by the Hindu Rashtra Sena leaders; the murder of Sheikh; violence and arson against Muslims; the circulation
READ MOREGuilty Men of the Two-nation theory: A Hindu nationalist project borrowed by Jinnah1
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- August 26, 2019
by Shamsul Islam 26 August 2019 FOREWORD After the recent [May 2, 2018] attack on Aligarh Muslim University by the Hindutva hoodlums sponsored by RSS/BJP leaders on the issue of Jinnah, the Two-nation theory is once again centre of a fierce debate. The Hindutva gang is using the issue of a photo of MA Jinnah
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