Vivvo CMS 4.0 http://policyresearchgroup.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://policyresearchgroup.com/files.php?file=POREG__LOGO_616812651.jpg http://policyresearchgroup.com/ http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/sr_talks_scaled_much_heights_made_much_progress.html India Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:05:00 -0500 The Delhi talks between India’s National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon and China’s State Councillor Dai Binggou were carefully calibrated. Both sides took some special steps to build up the right atmosphere for the talks. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/china_india_to_hold_talks_on_border_issues_on_jan_15.html India Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:30:00 -0500 More than New Delhi, it is Beijing which has a vested interest in making the dialogue meaningful and productive. It is therefore heartening that Dai Bingguo has acknowledged that gaps in understanding persisted between the two neighbours, which together had presented to the world Panchasdeel – the five principles that should guide relations between countries in the present day http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/sri_lanka_new_hopes_for_reconciliation.html India Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:25:00 -0500 Despite its very clearly pronounced shortcomings, hope is not lost on LLRC report. Some sections of the North, which was traumatized and victimized during the Eelam War, see the recommendations as the first step towards reconciliation. The report will enable the country to address accountability issues and concerns on human rights http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/revisting_26_11_-what_next.html India Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:50:00 -0500 American investigations post 9/11 and Indian experience that predates 26/11 and go back to the time of Kargil war substantiate what Memo Gate says as a sub-text that for Pakistan, the terrorists are a bargaining chip to achieve its political, strategic and territorial objectives and that Islamabad continues to rely on terrorism as its life-line. The Army directly and through its eyes and ears – the ISI- controls the reins of the civilian government. As long as this continues, there is little chance of Islamabad achieving any breakthrough against terrorism. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/1558.html India Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:35:00 -0400 Given the lows the US-Pak relations have reached these past few months with every single day flashing a fresh American allegation against Pakistan, the CFR-AII study makes out a strong case for India and the US working together to plan for the ‘worst case Pakistan scenarios’. This is understandable because India as the immediate neighbour, and the US as the key strategic player in the region stand to lose in the event of collapse of the Pakistan State and the Pakistani military losing control of its nuclear arsenal. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/sri_lanka_s_elections_for_local_bodies_to_give_impetus_to_crony_.html India Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:20:00 -0400 The outcome of the election for 23 local government bodies, including 16 municipal councils besides Colombo, will also be determined to a large extent by the new age voters, who are hit by high cost of living index, and growing unemployment. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/sri_lankan_talks_for_a_political_solution_reach_dead-end.html India Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:20:00 -0400 A pre-requisite for success of negotiations is a willingness to be flexible. It is in short supply as the turn of events show.... Colombo has been creating irritants in the bilateral relations with Delhi by waving its China card and a Pakistan card occasionally. Yet, the Government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken the consistent stand that President Rajapakse should strive for a political solution. Its message to Jaffna has been to persist with dialogue with Colombo to resolve the problems in the country. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/sri_lanka_no_half-way_or_middle_path_in_hr_concerns.html India Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:05:00 -0400 Sri Lanka's official war report entitled 'Humanitarian Operation—A Factual Analysis' devotes considerable effort and space to the LTTE crimes. Now that the Tamil Tigers are history, harping on their brutalities serves no purpose. If the intent is juxtaposing the government campaign against the LTTE operations, it is a crude attempt to white wash the ‘war crimes’ particularly since there are no answers to what had happened to the missing 11000 people. There is no half-way or middle path in Human Rights. Either a comprehensive refutation with evidence to buttress its claims or convincing narrative to justify war theater actions will only bring reprieve to beleaguered Colombo. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/india_pakistan_walk_the_talk_on_substantive_dialogue.html India Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:35:00 -0400 Since Shah Mahmood Qureshi almost derailed the dialogue process with his grandstanding last year, there has been a change in the outlook of the Pakistani military leadership. Pressed into a tight corner by its deteriorating relationship with Washington after the killing of Osama bin Laden, neither the Pakistani government nor its army chief, Gen Pervez Kayani would favour a hawkish stance on the dialogue process with India. More over, a fresh controversy with India would only add to the current difficulties with Washington which wants Islamabad to give its attention to the war against terror. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/india-us_strategic_dialogue_on_tuesday_july_19.html India Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:30:00 -0400 Both India and the United States have a vested interest in the well-being of Afghanistan and Pakistan – India as the immediate neighbour and the US as the global cop who has made the fight against terrorism his sole mission.......Washington’s readiness to live with Rawalpindi for the day is undoubtedly due to the looming China factor. Delhi factors in this reality as also the double-game pattern for the CIA and ISI. What interests it is the negotiations the US has been having with a section of the Afghanistan based Taliban, who are known to be close to the Pakistani establishment. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/mumbai_again.html India Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:20:00 -0400 "There is no short cut to ending the scourge of terrorism. The so-called civil society may have to be ready to shed a bit of its liberal mask. And instead of asking how it is that the US has not been attacked by terrorists after 9/1, it must ponder over how the US goes about in dealing with the problem unmindful of the taunts of double standards........ The US should be told to end its superfluous chiding of Pakistan", says the author. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/nirupama_rao_-_salman_bashir_talks.html India Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:30:00 -0400 Rao – Bashir talks have marked a qualitative change from the discourse the Shah Mehmood Qureshi introduced at the foreign ministers’ meeting (July 2010) and turned the post-meet press conferences into a noora kushti for the TRP hungry private TV channels at home. ... What holds hope is the calibrated roll back of ‘trust deficit’ in Pakistan-US and Pakistan-Afghanistan relations. And hence the conviction that the Sharm el-Sheikh initiative of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was and is worth the effort to keep the channels of communication open. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/the_arab_spring_fever_-_west_india.html India Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:40:00 -0400 While the West gropes its way to deal with a new Arab world that seems to be emerging out of the current upheaval, India has also to do some adjustment to the new realities in the ‘distant neighbourhood’ in the west. There are both challenges and opportunities, says the author. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/indian_maoists-_an_apprisal.html India Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:44:00 -0500 Politics, not economics and social justice drives the Indian Maoists, who have become a killing machine. Fairness and humane touch are a red herring to them. Intellectuals and civil rights activists should factor in the Maoist ‘plain speak’ lest the long forgotten Leninsque sobriquet of their class will get a fresh currency, says the author http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/1273.html India Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:15:00 -0500 With a depleted coffer, and ongoing operations against militants, the government has little time to devote to the peace process. Peace with India at this time is a luxury and can be achieved once the government and country survives the present storm in its backyard in the first place, says the author from the Griffith University, Australia http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/1256.html India Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:45:00 -0500 http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/eelam_war_wikileaks_revelations_tna_silence_rajapaksa.html India Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:10:00 -0500 Accountability for war crime is necessary but TNA's silence and Rajapaksa’s deft handling of geo-political and strategic realities underline the need for a new thinking cap. Not the Ban Ki-moon committees, says the author. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/year-ender_disclosures_test_rajapaksa_nerves.html India Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:00:00 -0500 Any brand has a limited shelf-life. It needs a rejig regularly for longevity. This maxim applies to the Rajapaksa brand as well as long as New York is viewed as the great El’ Dorado for economic nirvana and, Delhi as the Gaya for spiritual nirvana, says the author. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/india_must_take_lead_in_keeping_sea_lane_safe.html India Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:05:00 -0500 Hours before Marida Marguerite ordeal ended on Dec 28, another cargo vessel, MV Ems River was hijacked about 175 nautical miles north east of Salalah. There are now 25 vessels and 587 hostages being held by pirates off the coast of Somalia. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/tapi_or_ipi_neither_gurantee_full_security.html India Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:20:00 -0500 Afghanistan and Pakistan say they will provide full security to ensure delivery of gas to India but that assurance does not count for much because the governments and security forces of the two countries are already struggling to establish control over the tribal belt which will host the pipelines on way to India. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/iran_s_press_tv_banned_in_j_k.html India Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:05:00 -0400 Reports from Srinagar, capital of India’s Jammu and Kashmir say that Iran’s Press TV channel has been banned in the restive province following telecast of http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/1029.html India Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:25:00 -0400 News Round Up http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/1027.html India Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:15:00 -0400 News Round Up http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/1018.html India Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:40:00 -0400 News Round Up http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/1012.html India Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:25:00 -0400 News Round Up http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/996.html India Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:06:00 -0400 MUMBAI: A foreign cargo ship, which collided with another vessel about 10 km off Mumbai harbour, tilted further spilling oil for the third day today http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/983.html India Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:10:00 -0400 News Round Up http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/978.html India Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:50:00 -0400 NEW DELHI: An Army marches on its stomach, said Napolean Bonaparte. But the 1.13-million strong Indian Army, the third largest in the world, marches largely http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/977.html India Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:50:00 -0400 NEW DELHI: An Army marches on its stomach, said Napolean Bonaparte. But the 1.13-million strong Indian Army, the third largest in the world, marches largely http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/959.html India Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:20:00 -0400 By Mir Ehsan in the Indian Express, Aug 3Srinagar: As Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said violence needs to be ended before any political and administrative http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/944.html India Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:20:00 -0400 Washington: Taking another step towards the implementation of the 2008 Indo-US civil nuclear deal, the two countries have signed an agreement on reprocessing spent nuclear http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/930.html India Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:20:00 -0400 AHMEDABAD: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday submitted its status report on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case to the Supreme Court. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/920.html India Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:51:00 -0400 SRINAGAR: The state government of India's Jammu and Kashmir has ordered a judicial inquiry into the deaths of more than a dozen killings allegedly by http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/905.html India Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:05:00 -0400 New Delhi:  Facing charges of murder, Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, a close associate of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday resigned http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/898.html India Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:10:00 -0400 News Round Up http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/887.html India Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:45:00 -0400 News Round Up, July 22 http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/870.html India Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:55:00 -0400 1. 49 dead, 89 injured as trains collide in West BengalBy Jayanta Gupta in the Times of India, Jul 19SAINTHIA (BIRBHUM): As many as 49 http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/849.html India Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:55:00 -0400 1 US declines to go public on ISI's role in 26/11: the Times of India, July 17 By Chidanand Rajghatta WASHINGTON: With Secretary http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/847.html India Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:05:00 -0400 1. Qureshi's attack on Pillai a diversionary tactic New Delhi: India sees the outburst by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi against Home http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/801.html India Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:30:00 -0400 Terrorists’ trainers based in Punjab: Mian IftikharPESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has called for a ‘full-fledged operation’ against militants in Punjab because http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/752.html India Mon, 31 May 2010 04:00:00 -0400 Kishannagar is one of the countless shanties that Antop Hill boasts of, but it escaped communal madness gripped Mumbai from January 6 to 12, 1993. http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/740.html India Mon, 17 May 2010 12:15:00 -0400 India on Monday (May 17) successfully test fired nuclear-capable Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-II, with a range of 2000 kms. It can carry both conventional http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/732.html India Sun, 16 May 2010 05:11:00 -0400 As Sheik Hasina government is getting ready for trial of liberation war crimes, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) has adopted a three pronged strategy to protect its http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/722.html India Tue, 11 May 2010 03:05:00 -0400 New Delhi: India-Pakistan talks at the foreign ministers' level will take place in Islamabad on July 15. S M Krishna will visit the Pakistan capital http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/720.html India Mon, 10 May 2010 07:40:00 -0400 New Delhi: Forty terror camps are active in Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas, according to a Russian diplomat.The assessment is based on satellite imagery and intelligence reports, http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/717.html India Thu, 06 May 2010 14:40:00 -0400 Mumbai:  Finally, it is gallows to Ajmal Kasab (22), the lone surviving Pakistani gunman in the Mumbai terrorist attack.Justice M L Tahaliyani of the Bombay http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/696.html India Sat, 01 May 2010 00:05:00 -0400 The United States, Austrailia and some other Western countries have issued advisories to their counrymen warning them of 'imminent' terrorist attacks in Delhi markets. The http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/695.html India Sat, 01 May 2010 01:50:00 -0400 Bangladesh has arrested Ranjan Daimary alias D R Nabla, leader of the hardline faction of Bodo rebels, who has been hiding in the country since http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/692.html India Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:05:00 -0400 Madhuri Gupta (53), a junior officer at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, has been arrested for spying for Pakistan. This is the first time http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/675.html India Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:20:00 -0400 Even as the world leaders are currently engaged in discussing ways to neutralize nuclear threats in Washington, the possibility of nuclear or radioactive materials being http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/652.html India Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:15:00 -0400 Great importance appears attached by both India and China to the four-day visit of External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna to Beijing which began on http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/651.html India Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:50:00 -0400 India and China should work out a detailed framework for resolution of the boundary issue in a manner that is "politically feasible for both leaderships", http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/649.html India Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:09:00 -0400 The whole of Southern China is in the grip of the worst drought in living memory, leaving at least 18 million people without access to http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/647.html India Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:00:00 -0400 Militants blew up three metre long railway track in the Kashmir valley on Thursday April 1 night. The explosion took place near Kakapora, a village http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/646.html India Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:56:00 -0400 India will articulate its concerns over the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear material at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. An initiative of the US President, http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/633.html India Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:36:00 -0400 Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has ruled out scaling down India’s operations in Afghanistan, according to All India Radio.  Addressing a Washington based think- tank, Woodrow http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/630.html India Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:30:00 -0400 Mumbai police have arrested two men Abdul Lateef, 29, and Riyaz Ali, 23,.suspected of planning to attack three targets in the city, including the http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/624.html India Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:24:00 -0500 Marking the fifth visit of Prime Minister Valdimir Putin to New Delhi, India and Russia Friday March 12 signed several agreements worth over $10 billion http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/613.html India Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:15:00 -0500 India and Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Feb 28, signed an extradition treaty and resolved to jointly combat terrorism and money laundering after wide-ranging discussions between http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/604.html India Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:47:00 -0500 Liao Yiwu (52), a poet, has been barred from leaving China for the 13th time as he planned to attend Europe's largest literary festival in http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/597.html India Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:30:00 -0500 India and Pakistan have resumed dialogue with the two foreign secretaries meeting in New Delhi in what is the first formal and structured meeting since http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/592.html India Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:15:00 -0500 The security clearance for grant of Conference Visa is required from the ministry of home affairs in respect of participants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Iran, http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/557.html India Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:14:00 -0500 India on Sunday test fired its Agni-III, a nuclear-capable ballistic missile with a range of more than 3,000 km. It is the fourth test for http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/517.html India Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:04:00 -0500 In a scam that has shaken the Indian army, show cause notices have been issued to three generals. Army will court martial another. The charge against the four is that they had helped a businessman acquire 70 acres of land close to the Hqrs of 33 Corps near Siliguri in West Bengal to set up a boarding school http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/488.html India Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:25:00 -0500 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to Russian media before setting out on his visit to Russia iiin early December. This is his second visit http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/427.html India Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:30:00 -0400 Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which masterminded the Mumbai terror mayhem on November 26, 2008,  is  'largely intact' and is 'determined to strike India again', the New York http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/419.html India Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:19:00 -0400 A teenage girl killed a militant with his own gun after insurgents attacked their home in Jammu and Kashmir..Three militants stormed into Rukhsana Kauser's home http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/418.html India Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:47:00 -0400 A teenage girl killed a militant with his own gun after insurgents attacked their home in Jammu and Kashmir..Three militants stormed into Rukhsana Kauser's home http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/361.html India Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:42:00 -0400 South-east Asia’s most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammad Top (40) is reportedly killed in raids Indonesia police carried out in Central Java on early Friday (Aug http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/342.html India Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:56:00 -0400 Two large explosions at two luxury hotels in Jakarta on Friday left nine dead and at least 50 injured.  The explosions took place almost simultaneously http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/310.html India Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:30:00 -0400 Washington’s relations particularly military aid with Pakistan will not be at the expense of India, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/274.html India Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:14:00 -0400 US President Barack Obama has firmly ruled out any American mediation on Kashmir issue. Dialogue is the best way to reduce tension between India and http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/252.html India Sat, 30 May 2009 12:14:00 -0400 US is looking at the country to be a ‘partner’ and a ‘provider of security’ in the ‘Indian Ocean and beyond’, Defence Secretary Robert Gates http://policyresearchgroup.com/india/244.html India Sat, 23 May 2009 16:40:00 -0400 SM Krishna, a former Fulbright scholar, was on Satuday named the new Indian Minister for External Affairs. He succeeds Pranab Mukherjee, who has moved to Policy Research Group - Strategic Insight