Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 02/20/2020 - 10:49
Paper No. 6543 . Dated 20-Feb-2020
Dr Subhash Kapila
Noticeable since last year is the emergence of a new Islamic bloc of Pakistan-Turkey-Malaysia which ostensibly asserts to bring about a renaissance in the Islamic World but essentially comprises three Non-Arab Sunni Muslim nations attempting to challenge the Arab domination of the Islamic World led by Saudi Arabia as the ‘Custodian of the Holy Places of Islam’.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/06/2020 - 12:34
Paper No.6530 Dated 6-Jan-2020
Guest Column: By Dr. Rajesh Krishnamachari
The year has commenced ominously with increased US-Iran tensions triggered by the targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani, the long-term head of Iran’s Quds Force. In this note, we address three questions raised by this event:
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 11/24/2019 - 11:47
Paper No. 6515 Dated 24- Nov- 2019
By Prof. Ramu Manivannan
The victory of Gotabaya Rajapaksa was much anticipated in the recently held 16th November presidential elections in Sri Lanka given the course of national politics after the evaporation of false euphoria over the success of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in keeping Mahinda Rajapaksa out of power since 2015.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 09/11/2019 - 10:13
Paper No. 6492 Dated . 11-Sept-2019
By Moorthy S. Muthuswamy
(The views expressed are author's own)
It appears that the BJP-led government’s decision to abrogate Article 370 has garnered broad-based support. Not surprisingly, the Hindu and Buddhist majority regions of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir have welcomed the move. The initial curfew in these regions quickly gave way to normal life.
