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India's nuclear attack submarine leased from Russia will be inducted in June
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Hike in US military aid to Pakistan irks India
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Indian peacekeepers in Congo decorated
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Strategic push for India's ties with Malaysia
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India expects a summer of violence in Kashmir after increase in LoC infiltration
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No dedicated internal security ministry in India yet, Chidambaram
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Two more die as India’s swine flu death toll rises to four, 783 infected
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China for building 'strategic trust' with India
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India, Russia to discuss Kudankulam nuclear project Tuesday
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Seven eyes in the sky to guard India
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Beijing supports bigger role for India globally: Chinese minister
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Economic diplomacy top agenda for Nepal minister's India visit
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Dhaka begins troop withdrawal from Chittagong Hill Tracts
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First T-90 tank to roll out of Indian factory Aug 24
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Rights activist urges India, Bangladesh to resolve border deaths
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Make contingency plans to tackle drought: Manmohan to states
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Up, up and away go food prices
It wasn't until the Government's data revealed that food prices were up nearly 20 per cent over last year's figures, pushing overall inflation in India up...
By Jatin Gandhi
Digital democracy and its problems
Over the last two months, we Indians are very much involved in a debate on the technological vulnerability of the Electronic Voting Machine...
Anil Kumar Mohapatra
Islam at crossroads: Who's to blame?
It has become almost fashionable for a Muslim to say 'Islam is in danger'. The religion whose literal meaning is peace is today...
M. Rajaque Rahman
Ambani battle over gas cries for consistent government policy
The feud between the two Ambani brothers - Mukesh and Anil - seems to be an unending saga on the lines of television soap operas, with the story becoming...
Sushma Ramachandran
India and US Strategic Convergence in Central Asia
India and the US share common interests and concerns in the Central Asian Republics (CARs). Following the intervention in Afghanistan by the International Security Assistance Force...
Mansi Mehrotra
Jaswant Singh is not wrong on Jinnah
The ghost of partition is haunting us even today. I am no admirer of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, but Jaswant Singh is right in trying to peel off years and years of falsification...
Firoz Bakht Ahmed
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.: Focus: India-Pakistan Relations
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Rise in Kashmir infiltration cause of concern: Antony
New Delhi, Aug 8: Defence Minister A.K. Antony Saturday said a rise in infiltration from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir in the last...
Army, BSF on high alert on India-Pakistan border
Jammu, Aug 7 (IANS): The army and the Border Security Force (BSF) have stepped up patrolling in Jammu and Kashmir along the border with Pakistan to foil possible infiltration by terrorists...
Inadequate information received on Hafiz Saeed, claims Pakistan
Islamabad, Aug 6: Six days after India provided additional information on the involvement of Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz...
India asks Pakistan to act against banned outfits
New Delhi, Aug 6: Cautiously welcoming Pakistan's ban on militant outfits, India Thursday asked Islamabad to take action against those involved in the Mumbai attacks, including Hafiz Saeed, and sought details...
Interpol alert for 13 Mumbai attack suspects wanted by Pakistan
Lyon (France), Aug 6: Interpol's National Central Bureau (NCB) in Islamabad has issued a global alert for 13 suspects wanted by Pakistan police in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks...
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.: Focus – The Restive Af-Pak
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Pakistani Taliban in violent power struggle
Islamabad, Aug 9 (DPA): A pro-government tribal leader Sunday claimed that fighting between rival groups...
Desire for son led to Mehsud's death: report
London, Aug 9: A desperate wish for a son may have led to the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud...
Rival Taliban leaders killed at meeting to pick Baitullah's successor
Islamabad, Aug 9: Two rival militant leaders were killed following their heated argument over who should be the next Taliban chief...
Court adjourns hearing in Benazir Bhutto's assassination case
Rawalpindi, Aug 9: The additional sessions judge here has adjourned till Aug 31 the hearing of application seeking registration...
If correct, Mehsud's death is a good thing:US
Washington, Aug 8: Even as Islamabad was "pretty certain" that Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US missile attack, Washington declined...
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Nepal talks fail, peace process in danger
Kathmandu, Aug 8: As negotiations between Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda failed...
Prachanda rubbishes reports of US-India plan, his opposition to it
Kathmandu, Aug 8: Nepal's first Maoist prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda Saturday rubbished reports in a section of Nepali and Indian media that he had fallen out with India...
Nepal Maoist chief to go to Britain while party ambushes peace process
Kathmandu, Aug 7: After warning the government that the new constitution may not be implemented in time, Nepal's Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda is now going on a trip to Britain...
We decided to kill Birendra but spare Gyanendra, says massacre ‘plotter’
Kathmandu, Aug 7 (IANS): In an incredible turn of events eight years after the stunning massacre of Nepal's King Birendra...
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.: Focus – Hillary Clinton in India
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Fight terrorism with education, says Clinton citing Mumbai attacker
Washington, July 23: Citing the dramatic confession of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said good education...
'India on Obama's global agenda; climate change, trade could be spoilers'
Washington, July 22: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to India has given a new momentum to India-US relationship, but differences over climate change and trade talks may cloud...
Clinton visit recognises India's rising role: US media
Washington, July 21 (IANS): US media and officialdom seem agreed that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's just concluded visit to India would usher in a new era of "deeper relations" and...
Clinton stayed at Taj to send tough message to terrorists
Washington, July 21: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she chose to stay at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai last weekend to make it very clear that India and the US "are going...
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Sri Lanka's ruling alliance wins local elections
Colombo, Aug 9 (Xinhua): Sri Lanka's ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has recorded a significant victory in the provincial...
LTTE network shattered forever: Sri Lanka
Colombo, Aug 9: The possibility of the Tamil Tigers regrouping again has been "thwarted completely" with the arrest of their new leader Kumaran Pathmanathan, Sri Lankan Defence Secretary...
LTTE chief KP knew Rajiv Gandhi was to be killed
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS): The new chief of the Tamil Tigers who is now in Sri Lankan custody was one of the rare few outside the group's intelligence set-up who knew months earlier...
Sri Lankan army questions captured Tamil rebel leader
Colombo, Aug 7: Kumaran Pathmanathan, the new leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel movement, has been arrested and is being questioned, Sri Lankan defence ministry...
Sri Lanka confirms arrest of new Tamil Tigers leader
Colombo, Aug 7: Selvarasa Pathmanathan, who was appointed the leader of the Tamil Tigers following the killing of LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, has been arrested, the Sri Lankan...
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India developing indigenous swine flu vaccine
India is expected to be among the first few countries to develop an indigenous, injectable swine flu vaccine and the government has already invited health centres to carry...
Bangalore new haven for militants from the northeast?
Southern India has become the new destination for separatist groups from the northeast with intelligence inputs that rebel leaders from the region were taking shelter in cities...
Who will get to keep the gunmen, who will not
After the government sought to assure senior leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad and Murli Manohar Joshi that there would be no scaling down of their security cover, former...
It is a tough job being foreign minister
If there is one thing common between Minister for External Affairs S.M. Krishna and his predecessor Pranab Mukherjee, it is their propensity to work 24x7. The only difference is that while Mukherjee...
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Editor Speaks
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Pakistan's army: living in a state of strategic denial
The Army is caught in an inflexible mode of strategic denial about its past, which is why it appears both unable and unwilling to deal with its present internal security challenges. This is the 'truth' that President Asif Ali Zardari has been trying to reveal.
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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