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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,
Silence Then, Silence Now: Lessons For India From Its Response to 1990s Bhutanese Refugee Crisis0
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- September 19, 2017
By Vishnu Sharma on 18/09/2017 • Leave a Comment If India fails to stand with the Rohingya today, will it be able to claim tomorrow that it is rightfully with the people of Baluchistan or Tibet? Bhutanese refugees in Sanischare camp. Credit: Reuters If a nation’s resilience is tested by its response to the crisis in its
Tamil Nadu’s political crisis turns into constitutional one0
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- September 19, 2017
N Sathiya Moorthy, 19 September 2017 The judiciary has often shied away from contesting the speaker’s right or that of the legislature, but it has not always avoided taking a close look at the processes employed and arrive at conclusions that are binding on all concerned, says N Sathiya Moorthy. With Tamil Nadu assembly speaker P
Sri Lanka-Why And How Of ‘National Unity’0
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- September 18, 2017
N Sathiya Moorthy, 17 September 2017 If the UNP caused the sacking of Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, citing ‘collective responsibility’ as the substantiation, the SLFP has removed Deputy Minister for Tourism and Christian Affairs, Arundika Fenrnado, from the team. The UNP had begun by very reluctantly agreeing to the ‘forced’ resignation of Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake over
Russia’s Perspective on CPEC0
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- September 17, 2017
The inclusion of CPEC with the Belt and Road Initiative is a concrete example of how the Xi Jinping’s idea became an initiative. In this whole context of OBOR, Pakistan’s membership of SCO makes relevant to Russia or the Eurasian Economic Union. Otherwise, it is a little direct importance to Russia. Apart from a trade
Commentary
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
Principles of Persecution: India’s systematized Human rights violations0
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- September 17, 2017
Arbitrary detentions, torture, mass graves and mass rapes; No, you are not reading about a rogue third world authoritarian dictatorship. Instead, these are words that describe matters recurrent in the “world’s largest democracy,” India. The country, over time, has developed a mechanism to extend and tighten its hold on disturbed regions, specifically those states that
