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091830
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2009.
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US President Barack Obama is well on his way into implementing his Afpak strategy, which was unveiled shortly after he took office.The idea is to look at the war in Afghanistan in a composite manner, taking into account, among other things, Pakistan's intimate involvement.
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091818
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2009.
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Recently, yet another swindle involving the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) swept over the state reminding people of what had happened to the same august institution at the turn of the century.
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ID:
091843
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2009.
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The economy of Arunachal Pardesh is growing at a yearly average of more than 7 percent, and its per capita income is more than Rs. 20000. The share of agriculture to Gross State Domestic product is declining and industry and services are increasing.
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ID:
091828
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2009.
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Of all the states in India, perhaps Assam has the largest number of internally displaced people (IDP) living in relief camps in different parts of the state. These IDPs have been uprooted from their hearths and homes on account of ethnic conflicts and violence that have visited Assam with regular frequency.
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ID:
091832
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2009.
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After a hiatus of two years Bangladesh held its Ninth Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) elections in December 2008. Hailed by many as another liberation of Bangladesh, the new year ushered in a Awami League government led by Sheikh Hasina on 6 January 2009.
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ID:
091842
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2009.
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The geopolitical salience of Central Asia for India was never in doubt;either in the past or in the present. Two momentous developments of the last decade have brought this salience in an even more sharper and pointed manner than before.
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091835
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2009.
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India in the unique situation of having to deal with two contradictory adversarial situations. On the one hand, our smaller neighbours have anxieties about their security given India's much larger size and capabilities.
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ID:
091834
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2009.
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When Chinese leaders talk of 2000 years of happy relations between China and India, they do so to circumvent some prickly questions. The theory, in reality, is misleading. A few Buddhist monks travelled to Tibet and China to spread their philosophy.
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ID:
091838
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2009.
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Relation with Myanmar will continue to hold significance for India. India's Myanmar policy has been influenced by the desire to balance the geopolitical imperative with its commitment to democracy.
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ID:
079034
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ID:
091840
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2009.
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Indo-Pak relations have never been easy during the last sixty-two years. More one tries to change it more it remains the same. Four wars, including Kargil (1999), numerous rounds of talks, efforts by outside power to mediate, directly or indirectly, has not borne any fruits.
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ID:
091837
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2009.
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On 7th of August 2009, the then president, Gayoom ratified the Constitution. With the Special Majlis packed with his men, Gayoom was able to run through many of the controversial provisions and thanks to the spirited fight of the unofficial MDP members and a no nonsense Speaker of the special Majlis-Gasim Ibrahim, the new constitution ratified just in time to enable the country to go through the Presidential elections before the completion of the term of the then President.
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ID:
091829
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2009.
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The July 23 carnage at the crowded Khwairamband Bazar to the BT Flyover, in which Manipur police commandos committed daylight murder, eliminating an unarmed ex-militant in full public view and killing another pregnant woman bystander, is an ugly but expected flashpoint of a macabre drama unfolding in the state for the past many months.
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ID:
091839
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2009.
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While the Press and analysts give a very grim picture of the current developments in Nepal, it was heartening to see that the US based think tank-Foreign Policy has placed Nepal in the 25th spot much ahead of Sri Lanka 22, Bangladesh 19 and Pakistan 10 in the Failed State Index.
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ID:
091836
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2009.
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Two extraordinary events have taken place in the recent period, symbolising the fast growing in relations between Beijing and Taipei- Taiwan's participation (Geneva, 18-27 May 2009) as an observer under the name Chinese Taipei in the World Health Assembly, the executive arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), with firm blessings from Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief Hu Jintao's congratulatory telegram (27 July 2009) to the newly elected head of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) Ma Ying-Jeou.
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ID:
088613
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ID:
091833
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2009.
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Brug-yul or Druk-yul, the dragon country, nestled in the Eastern Himalayan marches, is a thinly populated, mountainous, Shangri-la of the only Lamaist Kingdom in the world.Till other day, it had an image of being an exotic, distant, isolated, autocratic and unique example of a traditional society, which stoutly refused to change.
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ID:
091841
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2009.
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The Sri Lanka's security forces remarkable success in inflicting a crushing defeat on the Tamil separatist insurgents of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the Eelam War IV in May 2009 has wide implications not only for the struggle of minority Tamil population for autonomy but also in the context of India-Sri Lanka relations.
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ID:
091831
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2009.
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Nation-building today is more often the practice of assisting countries overcome conflict and build effective and legitimate political institutions. The United States has had a significant role in virtually all of the post-cold war attempts at nation-building, from
Cambodia to El Salvador to Bosnia- with supporting roles by other international and regional organizations, states, and nongovernmental organizations.
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