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Politics of vendetta tarnishes Maldives’ young democracy

  • Maldives, the strategically vital South Asian archipelago straddling the crucial sea lanes in the Indian Ocean, is silently enduring deep political turmoil in recent times due to the usurpation of right to peaceful assembly, free expression and fair judicial trials. Unfortunately, democracy is ...
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Afghan migrants in Iran: Living dangerously for livelihood

  • Sometime in April, I was in contact with Faizullah Kakar, an eminent epidemiologist and the immediate past Chief of Staff to Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on public health issues arising out of the coronavirus pandemic.  Within days I approached him once again, as news of the drownin...
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Violence against Muslims in India must raise global alarm

  • “Insha’Allah Yahaan Aman Hoga (God willing, peace will be restored)” asserted India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, standing in Delhi's riot-hit areas last month Feb.26, trying to pacify desperate citizens who were a sitting target of an organized pogrom. The terri...
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Growth sans employment

  • A sizable section of India’s educated youth remaining unemployed is the greatest challenge before the nation, which boasts of being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, observed former Indian prime minister and a world renowned economist, Manmohan Singh while speaking at a higher...
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India tormented by water crisis

  • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government admitted in the Supreme Court last month that India was in the grip of a serious water crisis, with more than a quarter of the country’s 1.3 billion population facing acute drinking water shortage and agricultural distress. And approximately...
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New emerging alliances in ME

  • Has China stolen a march over India by unveiling a new Middle East strategy, which provides an alternative vision of strategic partnership amid rising volatility in West Asia? After years of hands-off approach, Beijing has finally decided to navigate the stormy waters of a crisis-ridden Middle...
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Lankans vote for stability

  • As former president and prime ministerial candidate of the opposition UPF Alliance, Mahinda Rajapaksa conceded defeat after a closely-fought parliamentary election in Sri Lanka, the Indian strategic security establishment, having invested a lot in the neighboring island nation’s election process,...
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The great game in Hindu Kush

  • Addressing the US Congress during his March-end Washington trip, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani reiterated his resolve to uproot terrorist organizations — including Islamic State (IS) — operating from Afghan soil. Ghani assured his audience that this land-locked yet strategically located...
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India’s minorities living in fear

  • The heinous gang rape of a septuagenarian nun in the eastern Indian province of West Bengal in the wee hours of March 13 has profoundly shaken the conscience of humanity. While condemning the ghastly event wholeheartedly and questioning the motives of the culprits, who outraged the modesty of “a...
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India’s BRICS mission

  • Fresh from his government’s success of handling the Iraq hostage crisis — involving Indian nurses — with meticulous precision, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in the bubbling Brazilian city of Fortaleza to attend the sixth BRICS Summit scheduled for July 15-17, 2014. An astute and highly...
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