Current Affairs

Kabir Taneja

Karzai’s military wishlist poses challenge for Delhi

0 by / on May 23, 2013, 7:17 pm / in Current Affairs
Karzai’s military wishlist poses challenge for Delhi

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai visited India this week. In his last term as President, Karzai comes with demands that could not only raise eyebrows, but also table challenge to India’s policy on Afghanistan. Karzai’s demands include various weapons and military equipments. However, while the President was in Delhi; a two [...]

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Ratnadip Choudhury

What happened to the Centre’s northeast trade routes revival plan?

0 by / on May 23, 2013, 7:14 pm / in Current Affairs
What happened to the Centre’s northeast trade routes revival plan?

It was in 2006-2007 that New Delhi started aggressively planning to reopen old road, water and sea ways that once used to connect northeast India to Southeast Asia. It was seen as a bold step toward realizing what India calls its ‘Look east policy’. The Centre laid stress on opening [...]

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Ashhar Khan

The UPA big bash

0 by / on May 23, 2013, 12:48 pm / in Current Affairs
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandh arrives to address after releasing the Report Card of UPA-II. PTI photo

It was the fourth anniversary of the UPA 2 or in fact, the ninth anniversary of the UPA (United Progressive Alliance). Nine uninterrupted years of the Congress at the Centre. The anniversary report card and dinner was supposed to be an occasion to celebrate and build on the work done [...]

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Akash Banerjee

Saranarthi – Tibet: The Fight For A Lost Nation

0 by / on May 20, 2013, 3:02 pm / in Current Affairs
Saranarthi – Tibet: The Fight For A Lost Nation

Another visit by a Chinese leader, another round of tall promises, another episode of shadow games. Perhaps India should take a few lessons from the Tibetans who have seen the real face of the dragon. No amount of talk can build ‘strategic trust’ between the two nations, no amount of [...]

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Gajanan Khergamker

Playing politics on the national song

0 by / on May 16, 2013, 7:50 pm / in Current Affairs
Shafiqur Rahman Barq leaving the Lok Sabha while the national song was being played

Bahujan Samaj Party’s 82-year-old MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq’s recent walk out of the Lok Sabha while the national song Vande Mataram was being played has kicked up a controversy, as predictable as the act itself. That some Muslims choose to not sing Vande Mataram isn’t a matter of surprise. That [...]

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Saim Saeed

What This Election Means For Pakistan and its Parties

0 by / on May 14, 2013, 5:59 pm / in Current Affairs
Supporters of Nawaz Sharif cheer outside his residence after the general election in Lahore on May 11, 2013. Photo AFP

Now that the Pakistan elections have taken place and the results are in, it is important to think about what the country has learnt from this election and the direction it may be heading towards. The Electoral Process How transparent and organised the elections were, depends on where one decides [...]

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Kabir Taneja

A Sanaullah for a Sarabjit makes both nations blind

0 by / on May 10, 2013, 4:54 pm / in Current Affairs
Family members of Sarabjit Singh during his funeral procession at his native village Bhikhiwind near Amritsar. Photo PTI

Sarabjit Singh was an Indian national languishing in a Pakistani jail since 1992, convicted of being a spy. Sanaullah Ranjay was a Pakistani national languishing in an Indian jail since 1999, after being convicted under TADA provisions for having connections with the terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. Sarabjit was attacked brutally [...]

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Vijay Pandey

Fight for Justice Continues

0 by / on May 8, 2013, 7:20 pm / in Current Affairs
Fight for Justice Continues

Sikh women listen to a speaker (unseen) as they protest the acquittal of ruling Congress party leader Sajjan Kumar in New Delhi on May 8, 2013. An Indian court acquitted Kumar on April 30, of charges of incited mobs to kill Sikhs during the country’s 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Photo by [...]

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Arun Sehrawat

[Photo Blog] Pakistani Hindus adamant to stay back in India

0 by / on May 8, 2013, 6:14 pm / in Current Affairs
[Photo Blog] Pakistani Hindus adamant to stay back in India

Pakistani Hindus who travelled to India to attend the recent Kumbh Mela have taken shelter in Bijwasan,  south-west Delhi. Though their visas expire on 8 May, they are adamant to stay back in the country.

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Jaideep A Prabhu

The dogs of nuclear war

0 by / on May 7, 2013, 7:43 pm / in Current Affairs
The Pakistani-made Ghauri-II, capable of carrying all kinds of warheads, is being launched, at Jhelum

India’s former foreign secretary and current member of the National Security Advisory Board, Shyam Saran, declared yesterday that even the smallest of nuclear attacks by Pakistan on India would be met with a massive response. This statement is interesting for multiple reasons, not the least of which is from whom it came. [...]

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Faheem Younus

Imran Khan and the anti-Ahmadiyya playbook

1 by / on May 7, 2013, 7:02 pm / in Current Affairs
Photo courtesy: Tehreek e Insaf Pakistan Facebook page

During a match in the 1989 India-Pakistan cricket series, K Srikanth started protesting after he was declared out leg-before-the-wicket. Imran Khan, a tiger in the making, gave him a second chance and called him back to play. But Srikanth was caught behind on the very next ball. Then came the World Cup [...]

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Aziza Ahmed

Sifting through the rubble of a sweatshop

0 by / on May 6, 2013, 3:42 pm / in Current Affairs
A body is carried out from the garment factory building that collapsed in Savar in Bangladesh. PTI photo

I was at the hospital with my ailing father, when news of the eight-story Rana Plaza collapse in Savar, Bangladesh first flashed on the television. While the doctors were writing a prescription as a process of discharging my father, I went for a quick visit to Shahbag (Mancha), in front [...]

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