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Take credible action against terror, Manmohan to tell Zardari
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Manmohan meets Hu, boundary talks set for Aug 7-8
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30 swine flu cases in India, government says suspend visits abroad
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Post-LTTE, Sri Lankan Tamil party warms up to India
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Pakistan, China vow to enhance strategic partnership
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BRIC has potential to lead economic growth: Manmohan Singh
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Sukhoi Su-30s formally inducted in northeast
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Budget will reflect all views: Pranab Mukherjee
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Aung San Suu Kyi's house is free, but she isn't
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Bangladesh names new army chief
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Hope - and disappointment - in Tehran
Just a few days ago, the same street in Central Tehran where my taxi had to slow down due to joyful opposition supporters, had now turned into an obstacle race as we walked and ran to escape...
Alex Verghese
Early signs of bipolar trend in India’s national politics
The story of how the electorate belied political prophesies and made smooth government formation possible after the Lok Sabha elections deserves close scrutiny because it contains...
B.R.P. Bhaskar
In once hostile India, Sonia Gandhi reigns supreme
Just over a decade after she entered Indian politics amid charges that she was a foreigner, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is today arguably the country's tallest politician...
M.R. Narayan Swamy
India's growth data has brightened revival hopes
A new Indian government under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken charge for the second successive term at a time when there appear to be glimmers of light on the horizon...
Sushma Ramachandran
At Home in the World
Manmohan Singh's second term as prime minister has already been hailed as 'historic'. He is the first person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to have been accorded such a distinction. However, there...
C Uday Bhaskar
'Bluestar' will remain etched in the Sikh psyche for generations
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently asked the Sikhs to move on with the cataclysmic events of 1984. Though the comment of the country's first Sikh prime minister were in the context....
Jaideep Sarin
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.: Focus – The Restive Af-Pak
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Pakistani military to focus on Baitullah Mehsud's Taliban group
Islamabad, June 15: The Pakistani military will train its guns on Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, a suspect in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto...
Pakistani army chief flies combat mission against Taliban
Islamabad, June 15: Pakistani Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Monday flew a combat mission against the Taliban, riding as the co-pilot in an F-16 jet for an aerial overview...
New US general takes NATO command in Afghanistan
Kabul, June 15 (DPA): US General Stanley A. McChrystal took command of NATO forces in the country Monday amid an upsurge of attacks by Taliban-led insurgents nearly eight years since their ouster.
Security forces kill 35 Taliban in Pakistan's northwest
Islamabad, June 14: Fighter jets and helicopter gunships were pressed into action as Pakistani security forces killed at least 35 Taliban in the country's restive northwest Sunday, the military said.
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.: Focus - A Tumultuous Pakistan
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Taliban could spread into India, Persian Gulf, says Pakistan
Islamabad, June 15: Pakistan has warned that the Taliban could spread beyond its borders to neighbouring India and as far as the Persian Gulf, unless it receives international aid...
Pakistan is on a suicidal course, says Imran Khan
London, June 14: Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has expressed fear that the ongoing military operation against the Taliban in Swat could backfire and fuel extremism and terror attacks in the country.
Lahore mosque blast suspect held in Balochistan
Lahore, June 14: A man suspected to be involved in the bombing of a mosque here in which a prominent cleric who supported the military's ongoing anti-Taliban operations was killed has been arrested from Balochistan, a media report said.
10 killed in Pakistan market blast
Islamabad, June 14: At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 wounded Sunday when a powerful bomb tore through a busy market area in Pakistan's militancy-hit North West Frontier Province, officials and media reports said.
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.: On the Naxal Trail
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The child soldiers in Indian Maoist ranks
Minister of State for Home Affairs Sriprakash Jaiswal told the Rajya Sabha Dec 11 that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has set up a special squad of minors in Chhattisgarh. These child soldiers are forcibly recruited into Maoist ranks. But this is not a new phenomenon.
P.V. Ramana
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.: Analysis – Bangladesh’s boundary issues
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Demarcating Bangladesh's Maritime Boundary: Issues and Challenges
Bangladesh is yet to delimit its maritime boundary with its neighbours in Bay of Bengal, that is Myanmar on eastern side and India on its western side. Myanmar and India agreed on maritime territory between...
Poornima Ravinathan
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.: Focus – Political Turmoil in Nepal
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Alarmed India to send top diplomat to Nepal
Kathmandu, June 15 (IANS): Alarmed at the inability of the new Nepal government to get its act together and the growing Maoist opposition, India is sending its Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon...
Maoists shut down Kathmandu valley after cadre's death
Kathmandu, June 15: Hopes that the political crisis gripping the three-week-old government of Nepal would be resolved Monday with the much-awaited expansion of the fledgling...
US sends envoy to Nepal
Kathmandu, June 12: The new Barack Obama government sent its first envoy to Nepal Friday with US Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake arriving here for consultations with the republic's key political players.
Maoist cadre arrested for Indian trader's murder in Nepal
Kathmandu, June 14: A Maoist cadre has been arrested in Nepal for the abduction and murder of an Indian businessman, whose body was found in a remote forest last month.
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IAF chooses Boeing's latest C-17 for heavy-lift transport aircraft
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has shortlisted the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III as its new Very Heavy Lift Transport Aircraft (VHTAC).
A month after: BJP in generational battle
A month after its stunning election defeat, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which once took pride in its disciplined cadre, has its top leaders tearing at one another in a blame game that is seen as a power struggle between two generations.
Talks on climate deal remain bogged down
Officials from 182 countries Tuesday started their second reading of a draft global agreement to combat climate change, while delegates admitted in private and NGOs charged in public that no progress was being made.
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After Prabhakaran: Will Sri Lanka finally have peace?
If Colombo is unable or unwilling to assuage this minority sentiment of persecution and intimidation, the possibility that latent Tamil militancy - whether under the LTTE or by another name - being ignited cannot be ruled out.
C. Uday Bhaskar
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Opinion
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Pakistan's impending 'Cambodian Moment'
A Taliban regime in Pakistan would not only tear at the social fabric of Pakistan and plunge millions into fratricidal conflict, it would potentially place nuclear weapons in the hands of lunatics like Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar!
Dr. Harold Gould
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India-Iran Relations: Strategic Stalemate
While the Iranian government has categorically ruled out any intentions of acquiring nuclear weapons, India is concerned that the acquisition of uranium enrichment capability may eventually create the propensity to develop nuclear warheads.
Gurmeet Kanwal
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Failure of Indian intelligence: The buck stops nowhere
It is not really difficult to see where the problem is: an intelligence structure which has yet to emerge from its colonial legacy and a bureaucratic stranglehold. The structure and operational philosophy of police and intelligence units have not changed much since British days.
Wilson John
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