Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sujoy Dhar MUMBAI, Jul 14, 2011 (IPS) – Hastimal Sen mistook the deafening sounds of explosions that shook his office in Mumbai’s crowded Zaveri Bazaar Wednesday evening as cars backfiring. Rushing out to check, he found dismembered and charred bodies strewn everywhere and people covered in blood [...]
INDIA: With No IT Sector, Kashmir Lags Behind
June 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sana Altaf SRINAGAR, Jun 28, 2011 (IPS) – At a time when information technology has revolutionised life across the globe, Kashmir in north India lags behind the rest of the country, and the world, because it has no IT industry to speak of. Officials and local residents [...]
LINKS BETWEEN HARKAT-UL-MUJAHIDEEN (HUM) & BIN LADEN/ AL QAEDA
June 26, 2011 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO 730 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The Harkut ul-Mujahideen (HuM), also known as the Harkat-ul-Ansar (HUA), the Jamiat-ul-Ansar (JUA) and Al Faran, is reported to have denied a report published by the “New York Times” on June 24,2011, alleging that it had links with Osama bin Laden and was part [...]
SRI LANKAN TAMILS: A DISCONCERTING SITUATION FOR INDIA
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN My attention has been drawn to a disturbing documentary titled “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” produced by Mr.Jon Snow of the Channel4 TV channel of the UK. 2.The documentary highlights the results of a forensic investigation into the bloody culmination phase of the counter-insurgency operations of the Sri Lankan Security [...]
DEALING WITH SOMALI PIRACY: STILL GROPING IN THE DARK
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN (To be read in continuation of my article of April 19,2011, titled “Somali Pirates Say They Are At War With India” at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers45/paper4432.html ) We are still groping in the dark in matters relating to action against the Somali pirates, who are more and more active despite all the [...]
INDIA: Kashmir in Search of Lost Culture
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Athar Parvaiz SRINAGAR, May 28, 2011 (IPS) – While the conflict in Indian Kashmir and the destruction it has caused often makes the news, its impact on culture has hardly gotten any attention. Although the armed conflict is on the ebb, cultural events have yet to stage [...]
INDIA: Fukushima Won’t Stop World’s Largest Nuclear Facility
April 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Apr 29, 2011 (IPS) – While the Fukushima tragedy has not deterred India from going ahead with building the world’s largest nuclear power facility at Jaitapur on the western coast, the government has announced a tighter safety regime for its ambitious nuclear power [...]
NASR Opens New Chapter in India-Pakistan Arms Race
April 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Devinder Kumar IDN-InDepth NewsReport NEW DELHI (IDN) – A new chapter in arms race on the Indian subcontinent has been opened with Pakistan successfully conducting the first flight test of a newly developed short-range surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying both tactical nuclear and high-explosive conventional warheads. [...]
REAL MASTERMINDS OF 26/11 STILL AT LARGE IN PAKISTAN
April 26, 2011 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO. 710 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN In an indictment filed before a Chicago court on April 25,2011, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has for the first time revealed the identities of four of the ringleaders of the Pakistan-based conspiracy for the planning and execution of the 26/11 terrorist strikes [...]
INSURGENCIES & TERRORISM IN INDIA
April 26, 2011 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN ( Written at the request of the Editor of “RISK”, an Italian Journal ) India has been confronted with periodic eruptions of insurgencies and terrorism in different parts of the country since it became independent. These have had different causes—- feelings of ethnic separatism as in the [...]
