India has a vast untapped health market where “English” medicine was never considered for treatment. While the market potential is something no global pharmaceutical company can afford to ignore notwithstanding India’s clamour for cheap drugs, the situation brings up-front the old question: ‘Does India adhere to the global ways of drug patents’, says the author in this study of US drug patents and the growing Indian pharmaceutical industry.
02 December, 2011 10:55:00
The President has justified the continued military spending. Speaking at the Defence University after the budget, he claimed there was “no end to the challenges confronted by Sri Lanka despite the obliteration of LTTE terrorism two years ago.” ...
12 December, 2011 04:45:00
Forced disappearances was a phenomenon that was a regular occurrence through out the North and Eastern Sri Lanka during the three decade long Eelam War. These disappearances became more pronounced during the ‘battle’ President Rajapakse had fought against the LTTE with Gen Fonseka leading the army from the front...
21 January, 2012 03:45:00
The Tamil youth are becoming increasingly disillusioned by Colombo’s reluctance to walk the talk on political solution. Rajapakse government has virtually pushed the 13th amendment to the back-burner notwithstanding the renewed public commitments. And, like in the past, now also it has been made a hostage to the majority chauvinism ...
19 January, 2012 11:05:00
The Delhi talks between India’s National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon and China’s State Councillor Dai Binggou were carefully calibrated. Both sides took some special steps to build up the right atmosphere for the talks....
12 January, 2012 11:30:00
More than New Delhi, it is Beijing which has a vested interest in making the dialogue meaningful and productive. It is therefore heartening that Dai Bingguo has acknowledged that gaps in understanding persisted between the two neighbours, which together had presented to the world Panchasdeel – the five principles that should guide relations between countries in the present day...
19 December, 2011 09:25:00
Despite its very clearly pronounced shortcomings, hope is not lost on LLRC report. Some sections of the North, which was traumatized and victimized during the Eelam War, see the recommendations as the first step towards reconciliation. The report will enable the country to address accountability issues and concerns on human rights...
02 December, 2011 06:00:00
Getting at the truth is as much important as appearing to get at the truth. Unfortunately, the Rajapakse government has not engaged itself in both exercises when confronted with the 'white flag' incident. ...
27 November, 2011 12:50:00
American investigations post 9/11 and Indian experience that predates 26/11 and go back to the time of Kargil war substantiate what Memo Gate says as a sub-text that for Pakistan, the terrorists are a bargaining chip to achieve its political, strategic and territorial objectives and that Islamabad continues to rely on terrorism as its life-line. The Army directly and through its eyes and ears – the ISI- controls the reins of the civilian government. As long as this continues, there is little chance of Islamabad achieving any breakthrough against terrorism. ...
21 September, 2011 10:35:00
Given the lows the US-Pak relations have reached these past few months with every single day flashing a fresh American allegation against Pakistan, the CFR-AII study makes out a strong case for India and the US working together to plan for the ‘worst case Pakistan scenarios’. This is understandable because India as the immediate neighbour, and the US as the key strategic player in the region stand to lose in the event of collapse of the Pakistan State and the Pakistani military losing control of its nuclear arsenal....
14 September, 2011 07:20:00
The outcome of the election for 23 local government bodies, including 16 municipal councils besides Colombo, will also be determined to a large extent by the new age voters, who are hit by high cost of living index, and growing unemployment....
16 August, 2011 09:20:00
A pre-requisite for success of negotiations is a willingness to be flexible. It is in short supply as the turn of events show.... Colombo has been creating irritants in the bilateral relations with Delhi by waving its China card and a Pakistan card occasionally. Yet, the Government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken the consistent stand that President Rajapakse should strive for a political solution. Its message to Jaffna has been to persist with dialogue with Colombo to resolve the problems in the country. ...
10 August, 2011 06:05:00
Sri Lanka's official war report entitled 'Humanitarian Operation—A Factual Analysis' devotes considerable effort and space to the LTTE crimes. Now that the Tamil Tigers are history, harping on their brutalities serves no purpose. If the intent is juxtaposing the government campaign against the LTTE operations, it is a crude attempt to white wash the ‘war crimes’ particularly since there are no answers to what had happened to the missing 11000 people. There is no half-way or middle path in Human Rights. Either a comprehensive refutation with evidence to buttress its claims or convincing narrative to justify war theater actions will only bring reprieve to beleaguered Colombo. ...
28 July, 2011 03:35:00
Since Shah Mahmood Qureshi almost derailed the dialogue process with his grandstanding last year, there has been a change in the outlook of the Pakistani military leadership. Pressed into a tight corner by its deteriorating relationship with Washington after the killing of Osama bin Laden, neither the Pakistani government nor its army chief, Gen Pervez Kayani would favour a hawkish stance on the dialogue process with India. More over, a fresh controversy with India would only add to the current difficulties with Washington which wants Islamabad to give its attention to the war against terror....
17 July, 2011 05:30:00
Both India and the United States have a vested interest in the well-being of Afghanistan and Pakistan – India as the immediate neighbour and the US as the global cop who has made the fight against terrorism his sole mission.......Washington’s readiness to live with Rawalpindi for the day is undoubtedly due to the looming China factor. Delhi factors in this reality as also the double-game pattern for the CIA and ISI. What interests it is the negotiations the US has been having with a section of the Afghanistan based Taliban, who are known to be close to the Pakistani establishment....
15 July, 2011 02:20:00
"There is no short cut to ending the scourge of terrorism. The so-called civil society may have to be ready to shed a bit of its liberal mask. And instead of asking how it is that the US has not been attacked by terrorists after 9/1, it must ponder over how the US goes about in dealing with the problem unmindful of the taunts of double standards........
The US should be told to end its superfluous chiding of Pakistan", says the author....
26 June, 2011 09:30:00
Rao – Bashir talks have marked a qualitative change from the discourse the Shah Mehmood Qureshi introduced at the foreign ministers’ meeting (July 2010) and turned the post-meet press conferences into a noora kushti for the TRP hungry private TV channels at home. ... What holds hope is the calibrated roll back of ‘trust deficit’ in Pakistan-US and Pakistan-Afghanistan relations. And hence the conviction that the Sharm el-Sheikh initiative of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was and is worth the effort to keep the channels of communication open....
23 March, 2011 05:40:00
While the West gropes its way to deal with a new Arab world that seems to be emerging out of the current upheaval, India has also to do some adjustment to the new realities in the ‘distant neighbourhood’ in the west. There are both challenges and opportunities, says the author....
21 February, 2011 09:44:00
Politics, not economics and social justice drives the Indian Maoists, who have become a killing machine. Fairness and humane touch are a red herring to them. Intellectuals and civil rights activists should factor in the Maoist ‘plain speak’ lest the long forgotten Leninsque sobriquet of their class will get a fresh currency, says the author...
10 February, 2011 12:15:00
With a depleted coffer, and ongoing operations against militants, the government has little time to devote to the peace process. Peace with India at this time is a luxury and can be achieved once the government and country survives the present storm in its backyard in the first place, says the author from the Griffith University, Australia
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27 January, 2011 01:45:00
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19 January, 2011 04:10:00
Accountability for war crime is necessary but TNA's silence and Rajapaksa’s deft handling of geo-political and strategic realities underline the need for a new thinking cap. Not the Ban Ki-moon committees, says the author.
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29 December, 2010 01:00:00
Any brand has a limited shelf-life. It needs a rejig regularly for longevity. This maxim applies to the Rajapaksa brand as well as long as New York is viewed as the great El’ Dorado for economic nirvana and, Delhi as the Gaya for spiritual nirvana, says the author....
28 December, 2010 02:05:00
Hours before Marida Marguerite ordeal ended on Dec 28, another cargo vessel, MV Ems River was hijacked about 175 nautical miles north east of Salalah. There are now 25 vessels and 587 hostages being held by pirates off the coast of Somalia....
19 December, 2010 03:20:00
Afghanistan and Pakistan say they will provide full security to ensure delivery of gas to India but that assurance does not count for much because the governments and security forces of the two countries are already struggling to establish control over the tribal belt which will host the pipelines on way to India....
14 September, 2010 09:05:00
Reports from Srinagar, capital of India’s Jammu and Kashmir say that Iran’s Press TV channel has been banned in the restive province following telecast of ...
16 August, 2010 03:25:00
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MUMBAI: A foreign cargo ship, which collided with another vessel about 10 km off Mumbai harbour, tilted further spilling oil for the third day today ...
08 August, 2010 02:10:00
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05 August, 2010 01:50:00
NEW DELHI: An Army marches on its stomach, said Napolean Bonaparte. But the 1.13-million strong Indian Army, the third largest in the world, marches largely ...
05 August, 2010 01:50:00
NEW DELHI: An Army marches on its stomach, said Napolean Bonaparte. But the 1.13-million strong Indian Army, the third largest in the world, marches largely ...
03 August, 2010 08:20:00
By Mir Ehsan in the Indian Express, Aug 3Srinagar: As Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said violence needs to be ended before any political and administrative ...
31 July, 2010 03:20:00
Washington: Taking another step towards the implementation of the 2008 Indo-US civil nuclear deal, the two countries have signed an agreement on reprocessing spent nuclear ...
30 July, 2010 05:20:00
AHMEDABAD: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday submitted its status report on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case to the Supreme Court. ...
29 July, 2010 06:51:00
SRINAGAR: The state government of India's Jammu and Kashmir has ordered a judicial inquiry into the deaths of more than a dozen killings allegedly by ...
24 July, 2010 02:05:00
New Delhi: Facing charges of murder, Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, a close associate of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday resigned ...
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19 July, 2010 01:55:00
1. 49 dead, 89 injured as trains collide in West BengalBy Jayanta Gupta in the Times of India, Jul 19SAINTHIA (BIRBHUM): As many as 49 ...
17 July, 2010 02:55:00
1 US declines to go public on ISI's role in 26/11: the Times of India, July 17 By Chidanand Rajghatta WASHINGTON: With Secretary ...
16 July, 2010 03:05:00
1. Qureshi's attack on Pillai a diversionary tactic New Delhi: India sees the outburst by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi against Home ...
05 July, 2010 03:30:00
Terrorists’ trainers based in Punjab: Mian IftikharPESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has called for a ‘full-fledged operation’ against militants in Punjab because ...
31 May, 2010 05:00:00
Kishannagar is one of the countless shanties that Antop Hill boasts of, but it escaped communal madness gripped Mumbai from January 6 to 12, 1993. ...
17 May, 2010 01:15:00
India on Monday (May 17) successfully test fired nuclear-capable Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-II, with a range of 2000 kms. It can carry both conventional ...
16 May, 2010 06:11:00
As Sheik Hasina government is getting ready for trial of liberation war crimes, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) has adopted a three pronged strategy to protect its ...
11 May, 2010 04:05:00
New Delhi: India-Pakistan talks at the foreign ministers' level will take place in Islamabad on July 15. S M Krishna will visit the Pakistan capital ...
10 May, 2010 08:40:00
New Delhi: Forty terror camps are active in Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas, according to a Russian diplomat.The assessment is based on satellite imagery and intelligence reports, ...
06 May, 2010 03:40:00
Mumbai: Finally, it is gallows to Ajmal Kasab (22), the lone surviving Pakistani gunman in the Mumbai terrorist attack.Justice M L Tahaliyani of the Bombay ...
01 May, 2010 01:05:00
The United States, Austrailia and some other Western countries have issued advisories to their counrymen warning them of 'imminent' terrorist attacks in Delhi markets. The ...
01 May, 2010 02:50:00
Bangladesh has arrested Ranjan Daimary alias D R Nabla, leader of the hardline faction of Bodo rebels, who has been hiding in the country since ...
28 April, 2010 10:05:00
Madhuri Gupta (53), a junior officer at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, has been arrested for spying for Pakistan. This is the first time ...
12 April, 2010 03:20:00
Even as the world leaders are currently engaged in discussing ways to neutralize nuclear threats in Washington, the possibility of nuclear or radioactive materials being ...
05 April, 2010 06:15:00
Great importance appears attached by both India and China to the four-day visit of External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna to Beijing which began on ...
03 April, 2010 10:50:00
India and China should work out a detailed framework for resolution of the boundary issue in a manner that is "politically feasible for both leaderships", ...
05 April, 2010 01:09:00
The whole of Southern China is in the grip of the worst drought in living memory, leaving at least 18 million people without access to ...
02 April, 2010 01:00:00
Militants blew up three metre long railway track in the Kashmir valley on Thursday April 1 night. The explosion took place near Kakapora, a village ...
04 April, 2010 11:56:00
India will articulate its concerns over the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear material at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. An initiative of the US President, ...
16 March, 2010 09:36:00
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has ruled out scaling down India’s operations in Afghanistan, according to All India Radio. Addressing a Washington based think- tank, Woodrow ...
15 March, 2010 04:30:00
Mumbai police have arrested two men Abdul Lateef, 29, and Riyaz Ali, 23,.suspected of planning to attack three targets in the city, including the ...
12 March, 2010 12:24:00
Marking the fifth visit of Prime Minister Valdimir Putin to New Delhi, India and Russia Friday March 12 signed several agreements worth over $10 billion ...
02 March, 2010 06:15:00
India and Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Feb 28, signed an extradition treaty and resolved to jointly combat terrorism and money laundering after wide-ranging discussions between ...
04 March, 2010 01:47:00
Liao Yiwu (52), a poet, has been barred from leaving China for the 13th time as he planned to attend Europe's largest literary festival in ...
27 February, 2010 01:30:00
India and Pakistan have resumed dialogue with the two foreign secretaries meeting in New Delhi in what is the first formal and structured meeting since ...
22 February, 2010 04:15:00
The security clearance for grant of Conference Visa is required from the ministry of home affairs in respect of participants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Iran, ...
08 February, 2010 06:14:00
India on Sunday test fired its Agni-III, a nuclear-capable ballistic missile with a range of more than 3,000 km. It is the fourth test for ...
12 January, 2010 11:04:00
In a scam that has shaken the Indian army, show cause notices have been issued to three generals. Army will court martial another. The charge against the four is that they had helped a businessman acquire 70 acres of land close to the Hqrs of 33 Corps near Siliguri in West Bengal to set up a boarding school...
08 December, 2009 02:25:00
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to Russian media before setting out on his visit to Russia iiin early December. This is his second visit ...
01 October, 2009 05:30:00
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which masterminded the Mumbai terror mayhem on November 26, 2008, is 'largely intact' and is 'determined to strike India again', the New York ...
29 September, 2009 01:19:00
A teenage girl killed a militant with his own gun after insurgents attacked their home in Jammu and Kashmir..Three militants stormed into Rukhsana Kauser's home ...
29 September, 2009 02:47:00
A teenage girl killed a militant with his own gun after insurgents attacked their home in Jammu and Kashmir..Three militants stormed into Rukhsana Kauser's home ...
08 August, 2009 04:42:00
South-east Asia’s most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammad Top (40) is reportedly killed in raids Indonesia police carried out in Central Java on early Friday (Aug ...
17 July, 2009 03:56:00
Two large explosions at two luxury hotels in Jakarta on Friday left nine dead and at least 50 injured. The explosions took place almost simultaneously ...
02 July, 2009 05:30:00
Washington’s relations particularly military aid with Pakistan will not be at the expense of India, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert ...
20 June, 2009 09:14:00
US President Barack Obama has firmly ruled out any American mediation on Kashmir issue. Dialogue is the best way to reduce tension between India and ...
30 May, 2009 01:14:00
US is looking at the country to be a ‘partner’ and a ‘provider of security’ in the ‘Indian Ocean and beyond’, Defence Secretary Robert Gates ...
23 May, 2009 05:40:00
SM Krishna, a former Fulbright scholar, was on Satuday named the new Indian Minister for External Affairs. He succeeds Pranab Mukherjee, who has moved to ...
