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Arunachal remains a live issue
16 April 2015 4:39 AM ISTIn the course of his globe-trotting diplomatic mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit China next month. Beijing has already...
Change of governments in South Asia and its effects
10 April 2015 4:14 AM ISTAs the Sino-Indian rivalry for extending influence in South and South-East Asia heats up, significant changes are taking place in the foreign policy...
China seems worried at Sirisena’s moves
27 March 2015 4:14 AM ISTSince winning the Presidential election of January 8, Maithripala Sirisena has been trying to correct the pronouncedly pro-Chinese tilt given to Sri...
Tribal insurgency plagues Northern Myanmar
21 March 2015 3:04 AM ISTThe Sino-Myanmar border, south of China’s Yunnan Province, has suddenly come alive. Beijing alleged on March 14 that a fighter aircraft of the Myanmar...
‘Modi wave' subsides in Assam
19 March 2015 4:40 AM ISTIf the BJP was confident of winning next year’s Assembly polls in Assam, it is doing everything that it should not. Recently, Pradyut Bora, a member...
Seeds of massacre sown in Bodo Accord
1 Jan 2015 4:01 AM ISTIn yet another massacre carried out by a breakaway group of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and retaliatory violence by those...
Modi looks North by North-east
7 Dec 2014 5:20 AM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a four-day whirlwind tour of the Northeastern States of Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland,...
Boost regional defence against China
18 Nov 2014 3:49 AM ISTWay back in 1994, the then prime minister P V Narasimha Rao formulated India’s ‘Look East’ policy. Its aim was to strengthen economic ties, increase...
Speed up defence modernisation
4 Nov 2014 5:03 AM ISTThe Union Cabinet has just cleared a Rs. 80,000 crore proposal for modernisation of our defence forces. Earlier it had sanctioned another Rs. 40,000...
India tethered to same old defence asymmetry
21 Oct 2014 2:16 AM ISTOne of the first priorities of the NDA Government on coming to power was to address the task of speedily narrowing down the asymmetrical gap in...
Extremists complicate the situation
26 Aug 2014 4:48 AM ISTAssam is on the boil now following a fast-developing sequence of events. Armed Nagas raided and burnt several villages, killing two, on Assam-Nagaland...
Narendra Modi at his diplomatic best
13 Aug 2014 4:33 AM ISTHaving Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Nepal (5-6 August) was an overture that was long overdue on India’s part. He was the first...