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Consensus in polity is way forward for Maldives

As India hosts Maldives President Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik for a week beginning May 11, the talk at the high table is going to be influenced by ground realities that are emerging in Male writes Rashmi Saksena

Saadat Manto’s birth centenary: Multiple relevances for South Asia

Saadat Hasan Manto , one of South Asia’s greatest short story writers - was born on May 11, 1912 in village Paproudi near Samrala town in the Ludhiana district of the undivided Punjab province of British India writes C Uday Bhaskar

Regional Focus

Myanmar: Sweeping political shake-up in the pipeline

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Myanmar's President Thein Sein is in the final throes of overhauling his government which may even see the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi become a parliamentary speaker

US & Pakistan in Afghanistan: Estranged partners and allies

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Referring to the relationship of the United States with Pakistan and India in his two seminal works, Dennis Kux called them Disenchanted Allies (2001) and Estranged Democracies (1994) respectively

Bilateral Issues

India-Pakistan and the bomb

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Possession of the nuclear bomb by India and Pakistan is a reality and this status cannot be either reversed or changed despite anti-nuclear protests or global civil society’s effort of de-nuclearisation.

Human dimension in India-Pakistan disputes cannot be ignored

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Until military-strategic issues such as Sir Creek and Siachen are resolved, there can be no forward movement in Indo-Pak relations

Country Voices

Nepal

Nepal needs to fight climate change

Posted:May, 17 2012

Nepal is bound to be hit hard by climate change, even though its own carbon emission is negligible while compared to that of industrialized countries.

Bhutan

Bhutan PM interview

Posted:May, 15 2012

Sudip Mazumdar interviews Bhutan PM Jigme Thinley in Thimpu

Maldives

Maldives – A vivid diamond for China and India,

Posted:May, 13 2012

Ever since the 1962 war they fought over border disputes, both sides have been in a complicated relationship with each other. Now they take it beyond the borders after 50 year...

Afghanistan

Governance Crisis Must be Improved

Posted:May, 17 2012

Afghanistan's long march towards gradually restoring stability, peace, prosperity and all-round development seems to have halted in tracks.

Bangladesh

Darn, we are happy

Posted:May, 16 2012

Happy tidings came over the past weeks as we learnt from the World Happiness Report 2012 that, we the Bangladeshis are among the happy people in the world.

India

The all-American way is not India’s way

Posted:May, 13 2012

When nation states have the potential of breaking into the elite league of great powers, the paths they tread become topics of universal discussion.

Pakistan

Balochistan: the FC and missing persons

Posted:May, 17 2012

The case of the missing Baloch is reverberating throughout the country. The sympathies of all Pakistanis are with the Baloch.

Sri Lanka

Destroying traditional SLFP Foreign Policy and the national consensus

Posted:May, 17 2012

The more extreme elements in the Ministry of External Affairs have at last put their cards on the table in the form of an article by the wife of one of its rising stars.

South Asian Editorials

The Daily Outlook, Afghanistan: The Perilous Over-Diplomacy	The Himalayan Times, Nepal: Fuel to fire
The Nation, Pakistan: Resuming Nato supplies	The Daily Times, Pakistan: Wisdom dawns at last
"The Daily Star, Bangladesh: Refugee issue at OIC meet Bangladesh makes its point	The Daily Outlook, Afghanistan: Masses Must Condemn Taliban Atrocities

Exclusive Maldives Video

Video Gallery

In Conversation with Sri Lankan High Commissioner in India

	1In Conversation with Sri Lankan High Commissioner in India
	In Conversation with Bangladesh High Commissioner in India
	National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon on India's Strategic Culture

Events

'Al-Qaeda after bin Laden: Implications for South Asia'

The India International Centre in collaboration with South Asia Monitor invite you to a Round Table discussion on 'Al-Qaeda after bin Laden: Implications for South Asia', on Monday, 21 May 2012 at 3.30 P.M. at Conference Room II, (above the Main Dining Hall) India In...

News Highlights

India to express concern to Pakistan on minorities' plight

India will convey its concern to Pakistan over the plight of its Hindu minorities when External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna visits the neighbouring country soon, parliament was told Thursday

Economy

Sri Lanka plans tea hub, imports from India, China

Sri Lanka's tea exporters are lobbying for liberalized imports to expand the industry and make it into a tea hub by blending high quality tea from China, India and Kenya, an official said here Wednesday.

Culture

Pakistanis win global award for film on drones

A short film on the US drone attacks in Pakistan, made by students of Iqra University, has won an award at an international annual film festival held in the US.

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