News & Events

• Together Against Terrorism 8/9/2008 8:11:57 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  Terrorism continues to rear its ugly head in our region. It remains the single biggest threat to our stability. We cannot afford to lose the battle against the ideologies of hatred, fanaticism and against all those who seek to destroy our society.
  
  
• The Game Of Pakistan Power 7/31/2008 5:07:30 PM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  Pakistan’s two major political parties, Benazir Bhutto's PPP and Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N are hopelessly divided. There is little sign of a rapprochement which can secure the coalition at the centre, run by the PPP, or in Punjab, run by the PML-N.
  
  
• Thinking Of Afghanistan 7/29/2008 8:03:04 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  The suicide attack on India’s Kabul mission, killing four Indians, including two diplomats, and 40 Afghans, underscores the world community’s failure to bring a semblance of normalcy to Afghanistan.
  
  
• Controversy Over Examinations For IAS And IPS 7/29/2008 7:42:05 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  The controversy over the so-called special treatment given by the Sixth Pay Commission to IAS officers over the IPS and Central Secretariat services has attracted wide public attention.
  
  
• G-8 Summit 7/23/2008 7:45:02 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  The G-8 meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, has endorsed a plan for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions to combat climate change. The plan is to cut emissions by half by 2050.
  
  
• India And The Oil Story 7/23/2008 7:00:00 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  Recent price hike of the oil has shaken up the entire world economies and people’s day today activities. The high level protests like strikes ,rallies called by people of India to protest the unpredictable price hike of the oil is a political game.
  
  
• Security Of Indian Personnels 7/23/2008 6:50:33 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  The suicide bombing into the gates of the Indian embassy in Kabul on July 7 was perhaps the deadliest of it’s and since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001.
  
  
• Central Asia Issue 7/23/2008 6:22:26 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  Hunt for black gold has made Central Asia a highly tense spot in the world. There is a growing rivalry amongst nations to have a foothold in the region. Americans, Chinese are trying to have their share.
  
  
• World Free Of Bombs 7/22/2008 10:55:20 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  The Bush administration has asked Pakistan to put its nuclear arsenal under joint supervision as to prevent terrorists acquiring/stealing weapons of mass destruction. Pakistan has yet not responded to the US proposal.
  
  
• Oil Price And Its Impact 7/22/2008 10:06:09 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  International Monetary Fund and oilier multilateral agencies have warned that raise in price of oil poses a grave threat to the world economy. This is more political and less economic statement.
  
  
• KISSS And Landscape Irrigation 7/22/2008 9:57:30 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  KISSS (Capillary Irrigation Sub-Surface Systems.) is a landscape irrigation technology devised by an Australia-based firm, Irrigation and Water Technologies. Landscape irrigation is irrigating a piece of land for a utility.
  
  
• Afghanistan In Transition 7/1/2008 9:58:46 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  The Taliban continues to pose a problem in and for Afghanistan. Seven years after the invasion by the United States international forces, the fundamentalist Islamic group remains resilient and elusive.
  
  
• Playing On Local Sentiments 7/1/2008 9:44:07 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  What is the fuss all about? Why are some so-called mainstream Kashmir valley parties crying themselves hoarse? Why are they trying to project a minor administrative maneuvered as if some unknown spacemen or their ilk had seized the entire valley.
  
  
• Chinese Incursions May Lead To War 6/26/2008 9:15:53 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  India continues to downplay Chinese incursions into Indian territory. In the latest episode, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entered the Indian side of the border around northern Sikkim called the ‘Finger Area’ and returned after some time.
  
  
• Issue Over The Durand Line 6/26/2008 9:13:48 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  On 11 June, an air strike by the US led forces from across the border, in Mohamand Agency killed 11 para military soldiers and 10 militants. And two days later Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President, warned of attacks across the Durand line.
  
  
• Broadening The N-Deal Spectrum 6/26/2008 9:09:41 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  The Congress has dug in its heels on the nuclear deal and said the Government would go to the IAEA board to seek its approval for the India-specific safeguards agreement regardless of the Left's objections.
  
  
• India-Iran Gas Pipeline Project 6/16/2008 2:40:54 PM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  On separate occasions in recent days, the Iranian President has expressed optimism about the future of the proposed $7.5 billion, 2700-km, Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project.
  
  
• Media And Crime 6/14/2008 9:54:25 AM
  In Media & Journalism, By: Payal Jain
  It is quite vicious how each time the media reports a sensational crime. First, it berates the police for not solving the crime immediately and then follows it up by ridiculing the probe.
  
  
• Raising Prices Or Vote Banking 6/14/2008 7:12:24 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  Oil prices have shot up recently and the sky rocket pace does not seem to end anywhere, with international prices touching $125 a barrel and companies, having to sell oil at less prices due to government pressure are running into losses.
  
  
• Lessons To Be Learnt From The Nucear Deal 6/13/2008 7:28:25 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  Indo-US civil nuclear cooperation has been in the limelight for quite a while with participation of the media, opinion makers, policy planners and parliamentarians in the discussion and the debates.
  
  
• Dealing With Terror 6/13/2008 7:16:03 AM
  In News & Events, By: Payal Jain
  The gruesome terrorist attack on the pink city of Jaipur on May 13 showed what we have known all along. India is not only a soft state, but also a soft target. Our leaders are long on rhetoric and short on action.