Maldives: ‘Water crisis’ shows India’s heart is as close as the two nations
For a third time in four decades or less, Fate ordained that India display the kind of closeness of heart with Maldives as geography too has made them to be. …
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Maldives: Reading China’s ‘Indian signals’ wrong?
By quoting from an official Chinese statement on India’s purported interest in China’s Maritime Silk Route (MSR) without citing the source, Maldivian Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon may have committed an …
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Sri Lanka: Is Indian concerns on Chinese naval presence justified?
Three Chinese naval vessels calling on Sri Lankan ports in over six months – two of them submarines that can only be offensive platforms – and sections of the Indian …
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Sri Lanka: Death sentence for Indians stresses urgent need to resolve fishers’ problems
A Colombo court’s recent awarding of death sentence to five Tamil Nadu fishers, for alleged drug-smuggling in 2011, has underscored the urgent need for the Governments of India and Sri …
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Xi’s visit to Maldives: Should India worry?
Back-to-back reciprocal presidential visits seldom happen between nations of the world other than to avoid or defuse wars. That too are rare in this era of remote-controlled aerial warfare on …
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Importance of leading the Indian Ocean neighbours
Upturned, as the Indian Ocean strategic community across the world tend to do in the context of an emerging India, the map of the nation and its southern Sri Lankan …
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Time for India to set priorities in South Asia
After visualising India as the ‘net-provider’ of security in and for South Asia, as then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had mentioned, the nation may now face the dilemma of defining …
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Maldives: Uniting in the name of Islam and Palestine
In what’s reportedly among the largest rallies in capital Male, people cutting across party lines protested recently against the current Israeli attacks on Palestine. Local media reports, quoting the organizers, …
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Sri Lanka: What the TNA can do for India to help
Public posturing apart, moderate Tamils in Sri Lanka seem to want India to intercede on their behalf all over again and help arrive at a political settlement on the ethnic …
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Modi mandate: Number-crunching out, stability is in
Elections-2014 has thrown up for the first time in 30 years a parliament in which the Treasury Bench does not have to do number-crunching all the time, to push policy initiatives, legislative initiatives and even budgets – which have more often than not been passed in the midst of din and dust, with no one left any wiser on what was proposed or whatever was discussed.
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