Posts Tagged ‘India’
India Being Groomed to Take Over Afghanistan from US/NATO Forces
The Vancouver Sun | By Jonathan Manthorpe | 6 January 2010 Success after NATO's Afghanistan exit largely depends on India Regional superpower has invested in Afghanistan reconstruction and trade, but that has raised long-held tensions with Pakistan The key to what happens in Afghanistan after the United States and NATO allies including [...]
Indian Efforts to Win Afghan Hearts and Minds
Times of India | 11 January 2010 Winning Afghan hearts & minds with academia Afghan nationals today comprise the largest contingent of foreigners pursuing higher education in India. MUMBAI: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai often speaks fondly of the days he spent as a student in Shimla attending Himachal University. But what is lesser [...]
Russian Nuclear Submarine for India
Xinhua | 13 January 2010 Russia to lease nuclear submarine to India for decade: report MOSCOW, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russia will lease a multifunctional nuclear submarine to India for a decade in the second half of this year, the Itar-Tass news agency reported Tuesday, quoting a Russian Defense Ministry official. The Nerpa nuclear submarine, [...]
Racism in Australia
Times of India | By Meenakshi Sinha | 13 January 2010 ‘Only Indians face bias in Oz, not Afro-Americans’ NEW DELHI: Even as authorities in Australia insist that the recent crimes against Indians are not racist in nature, several students say they have been regular targets of racist taunts and innuendos. Seema Verma, 33, works as a [...]
China, India hold 3rd round of defense consultation
Xinhua | 9 January 2010 BEIJING: China and India held the third round of defense consultation here Wednesday, according to a press release from the Information Office of China's Defense Ministry Friday. Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Ma Xiaotian and visiting Indian Defense Secretary Pradeep [...]
India is the biggest obstacle to global governance
Foreign Policy | By Barbara Crossette | January/February 2010 The Elephant in the Room Think for a moment about which countries cause the most global consternation. Afghanistan. Iran. Venezuela. North Korea. Pakistan. Perhaps rising China. But India? Surely not. In the popular imagination, the world's largest democracy evokes Gandhi, [...]
Israeli National Security Adviser Makes Secret Visit to India
Times of India | Sachin Parashar | 6 January 2010 Israel NSA on hush-hush visit NEW DELHI: India's close cooperation with Israel in dealing with terror received further impetus on Monday when Israel's NSA Uzi Arad visited India and held talks with his counterpart M K Narayanan. Arad was accompanied by a delegation comprising experts on [...]
Divide and Rule: Times of India Report Favours “Moderate” Barelvis Over “Hardline” Deobandis
Times of India | By Manjari Mishra | 6 January 2010 Barelvis take on Deobandis over religious property LUCKNOW: The age-old animosity between the Deobandi and Barelvi schools of thought among Sunni Muslims resurfaced in Uttar Pradesh with moderate Barelvis serving an ultimatum to hardline Deobandis to give up control over Muslim religious [...]
“The Afpak Quagmire”: An Excerpt from Brzezinski’s Recent Foreign Affairs Article
Foreign Affairs | By Zbigniew Brzezinski | January/February 2010 Issue From Hope to Audacity Appraising Obama's Foreign Policy Article Summary: Barack Obama's foreign policy has generated more expectations than strategic breakthroughs. Three urgent issues -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran's nuclear ambitions, and the Afghan-Pakistani [...]
India Lays Claim to Gilgit & Baltistan
Indian Express | 1 January 2010 Pak actions can't camouflage illegal occupation of GB: India Reacting strongly to remarks by ‘so-called Chief Minister’ of Gilgit-Baltistan, India said Pakistan's actions regarding the area in the past few months cannot ‘camouflage’ its ‘illegal occupation’ of that part of Jammu and Kashmir which is [...]
