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G Parthasarathy Diplomatic engagement with a neighbour having territorial ambitions and an abiding desire to alter the balance of power has to be carefully planned and executed. Apart from realistically assessing the balance of military…
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Prof Mohd Junaid Jazib It is rather in the recent years that the environmental considerations have arrested the attention of one and all. This, apparently an appreciable change in the society's collective behavior, is very significant from…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made his first big foreign policy mistake by calling off foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan last week just as the latter's envoy was meeting Kashmiri separatists. Modi impressed many with his astute…
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Exactly a year ago, President Barack Obama was bracing for a military strike against Syria as America's long-time bete noire Bashar al-Assad crossed the "red line" with his alleged use of chemical weapons. However, after all the…
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In the Indian Penal Code, or indeed, perhaps in the history of criminal jurisprudence, there is no crime during the trial of which the victim is asked by the law to negotiate with the perpetrator, except with regard to crimes against women,…
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Diplomatic engagement with a neighbour having territorial ambitions and an abiding desire to alter the balance of power has to be carefully planned and executed. Apart from realistically assessing the balance of military and economic power,…
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'There is nothing like that', said the new Chief of Army Staff, General Dalbir Singh Suhag, when asked if it was true that Chinese troops had entered deep into Indian territory in Burtse sector, near Daulat Beg Oldi in north Ladakh. The…
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India's cancellation of Foreign Secretary level talks with Pakistan, after Islamabad's envoy in New Delhi met with Kashmiri separatists despite Government opposition, has led to much concern over how the larger peace process between the two…
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The outrage has been most profound in Britain on the realisation that the executioner was in all probability an individual who is nominally British - in that he travels on a British passport and speaks in what has been identified as a…
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Charles de Gaulle may have been a tad sexist when he remarked that "treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last". But he effectively brought out the transient value that most agreements of whatever kind suffer from.…
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