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• Is Politics being Redefined between States and Peoples?

  9 August 2010, by Rakesh Gupta

  The US-Russian spy swap in Vienna a few days ago, the Chinese news agency, Xinhua, observed, represents pragmatism and some long- term interests in Russian foreign policy towards the US. This nearly coincided with the Indian arrest of a Russian diplomat who overstayed in the country. The Chinese prevailed upon the world to not condemn North Korea over its sinking of the South Korean ship and are pursuing their longstanding policy of developing nuclear relations with Pakistan. This happened (…)

• Ban Communal Bodies Involved In Terrorist Activities

  9 August 2010

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  When bomb blasts occur anywhere in the country, the pet theory immediately put forward by both the law enforcing and investigating agencies and the media is that Muslim terrorists are behind these unpardonable crimes. And on this count a number of Muslim youths have been arrested on grounds of suspicion and most of them are still awaiting their trials. This is in addition to the highly excessive inhuman torture which they are facing in jails.
  But now, as a result of (…)

• Impact of Upper House Election Results on Japan’s Political Future

  9 August 2010, by Rajaram Panda

  The ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) faced a stinging setback in the Upper House election held on July 11, 2010. The Japanese voters were disappointed with the party’s apparent inability to deliver on promises to revamp Japan’s “sclerotic postwar order”.1 This will negate the efforts that Prime Minister Kan Naoto has to put the economy in shape. In a strong rebuke to the Kan Government, the voters deprived the DPJ and its tiny ally of a majority less than a year after the DPJ swept to (…)

• Nuclear Fuel and Emerging Dynamics of Indo-Kazakh Relations

  9 August 2010, by Deepti Srivastava

  The bond of friendliness between India and Kazakhstan as prominent members of their respective regions as well as the comity of world nations has gained a new fillip in recent times. Kazakhstan’s rise as an independent nation-state was a significant event in international affairs, and it was readily accorded recognition by India. This led to a formal beginning of relations between India and Kazakhstan. Now the two countries have been exploring various diversified fields of cooperation for (…)

• Unwarranted Censure!

  9 August 2010, by D. Bandyopadhyay

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  T.J.S. George’s vitriolic vitueeration against Mamata Banerjee as the Union Railway Minister (in his “Railways: Conspiring Against The People”, Mainstream, July 31, 2010), reflects his prejudice against her. He seems to be totally oblivious of the ugly ground realities of lethal toxicity created by the ruling CPI-M to cling on to power by means more foul than fair. The Indian Railways has route kilometre of over 65,000 km. It runs around 14,000 trains every day. It carries (…)

• Burma: India’s Betrayal of the Democratic Struggle

  9 August 2010, by Surendra Mohan

  The ethos of the Indian independence struggle was built around the concepts of human rights for all, freedom of all colonial peoples and secular plural democratic polity. This ethos guided India’s foreign policy for several decades, and India stood firmly in support of anti-colonial movements, struggles against authoritarian regimes and establishment of human dignity. Her identification with the Palestinians’ aspirations for liberation and self-rule in their land, anti-apartheid struggle in (…)

• Kashmir: Act Now before it is Too Late

  9 August 2010, by Zafarul-Islam Khan

  The following is a piece written on August 2, 2010 by the editor of The Milli Gazette. It is being reproduced from the publication for the benefit of our readers as it brings out a specific viewpoint that is held by a large section of the populace in the Kashmir Valley and hence cannot be ignored or brushed aside. —Editor
  For the last two months only bullets are talking in Kashmir. Dozens of lives, mostly school-going young men and women, have succumbed to the bullets fired by the security (…)

• K.M. Mathew Is No More

  9 August 2010

  One of the sturdy pillars of Indian journalism, K.M. Mathew, 93, Chief Editor of the mass-circulation Malayalam newspaper Malayala Manorama, is no more. He passed away at his residence in Kottayam on August 1, 2010.
  Under K.M. Mathew’s stewardship, Malayala Manorama embarked on a journey of expansion and modernisation that changed the face of newspapers in Malayalam. He has been aptly described as a “dynamic and visionary journalist” by President Pratibha Patil.
  Besides the President, (…)

• Silencing the Moderate Voice in Balochistan

  25 July 2010, by Rashed Rahman

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• Sri Lanka at Peace, But....

  25 July 2010, by Apratim Mukarji

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