DEVELOPMENT: Rural India Set to Ring in 3G Mobile Technology
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By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI, Oct 8 (IPS) – As India prepares to roll out third-generation (3G) mobile services in the world’s fastest growing telecom market, there are high expectations that it will benefit people in the vast, impoverished rural hinterland most.
"In the same way [...]
OBAMA VEERING TOWARDS NEUTRALITY ON ARUNACHAL PRADESH?
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In my article of September 16,2009, titled "Obama Ducks Dalai Lama" available at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers35/paper3418.html , I had reported as follows: "His Holiness is going ahead with his plans to visit Arunachal Pradesh in November, which could more or less coincide with Obama’s visit to China. The US [...]
CONTINUING THREAT FROM INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.559
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It is one year since the last reported terrorist attack (in New Delhi in September last year) by the Indian Mujahideen (IM) and its mentor the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Not only has there been no jihadi terrorist attack in Indian [...]
CHINA-INDIA: NON-GOVERNMENTAL HOSTILITY BEHIND FACADE OF GOVERNMENTAL CORDIALITY
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The following are my comments in reply to some questions E-mailed to me by a correspondent of the "Washington Post" in Beijing on August 14,2009:
1) It seems that China has gotten some criticism about the border issue talk recently in India. What do these criticisms focus [...]
INDIA-CHINA: LOOKING AHEAD
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Admiral Sureesh Mehta, who will shortly be retiring as our Chief of the Naval Staff (CONS), made a presentation on "India’s National Security Challenges—An Armed Forces Overview" at the National Maritime Foundation at New Delhi on August 10,2009.
2. During his tenure as the CONS, Admiral Mehta [...]
INDIA: MIXED SIGNALS FROM CHINA
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The 13th round of the talks between the Special Representatives of India and China on the long-pending border dispute was held at New Delhi on August 7 and 8,2009. India was represented by M.K.Narayanan, the National Security Adviser, and China by Dai Bingguio, the State Councillor. It [...]
INDIA: Fishermen Struggle As Seas Change and Fish Dwindle
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By Keya Acharya
VISHAKHAPATNAM, India, Aug 4 (IPS) – At Pudumadaka beach, 60 kilometres from the coastal city of Vishakhapatnam in southeastern India, 40-year-old Ummudi Bangaraiah stares hopelessly at the day’s catch of 4 kilos of sardines, the money from which, when divided by the five [...]
INDIA-CHINA TRUST DEFICIT
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These are the comments made by me in response to an E-mailed query from a South-East Asian journalist on the next round of border talks between India and China to be held shortly:
The deadlock in the border talks seems to continue over the issue of Arunachal Pradesh, which the [...]
INDIA: With Nuke Submarine Launch, India Displays its Growing Military Prowess
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Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI , Jul 31 (IPS) – With the launch of an indigenously made nuclear-powered submarine, India has caused an international uproar. But back home, observers played it down as nothing more than a long-term naval enhancement in a peninsula country with a long [...]
ROBIN RAPHEL: OLD ANTI-INDIA HAND TO JOIN HOLBROOKE’S TEAM?
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The “News”, the Pakistani daily, has reported on August 3,2009, that the Barack Obama Administration has decided to appoint Robin Raphel, who was a Counselor for Political Affairs in the US Embassy in New Delhi from 1991 to 1993 and subsequently became the Assistant Secretary of State [...]
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