Share By Shashank Saurav: Sad But True is a heavy metal song recorded by the very popular band Metallica. In essence it describes how a guy is controlled by his evil puppet which signifies the fact that many times the devil inside a person takes possession of his sanity; this is indeed sad but the [...]
Share By Abhirup Bhunia: Is the demise of sovereignty at the heart of globalization? It is an old question-mark newly positioned. Political scientists have run over the argument time and again but like all other debates which are characteristically long-drawn-out, this one hasn’t died out either – indeed in light of the recent global confabs, [...]
Share By Sampa Kundu: Senior General Than Shwe’s 5-days official visit to India ended on Thursday, July 29, 2010. He came to India with a number of other top level delegates on a goodwill visit and both the governments signed five documents including the Treaty on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, MOU regarding Indian Grant [...]
Share Mireille Rodrigues: As India celebrated the 40th birthday of one of its most charismatic politicians, Rahul Gandhi, the rest of the world was marking a different one. Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 65th birthday on Saturday, still in confinement. Previously, the British ruled Burma, or Myanmar. After World War II, it became an [...]
Share Rohan Gupta: (this is a continuation, an update of our post on the History of the Gulf Oil Spill published on 10th May, 2010) The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is still continuing even after almost 50 days despite various efforts and resources being invested in controlling it. The Interior Department (USA) has estimated [...]
Share Sampa Kundu: A report published by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers noted that in around 86 countries, even today, children (under 18) are recruited in military and engage in hostilities of different types (Child Soldiers Global report 2008). It includes unlawful recruitment by armed groups, forcible recruitment by government forces, [...]
Share Rohan Gupta: After an explosion on 20th April in the Deepwater Horizon oilrig owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC in the Gulf of Mexico region oil has been pouring into the gulf at about 210,000 gallons per day. It is deemed to be the greatest oil spill in history as the [...]
Share Tanya Jain: The recently concluded 16th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in the Bhutanese capital of Thimpu would surely have been hawk – eyed by China due to its alleged insecurity on India’s growing clout over their common neighbours. China not only undermines India’s influence but also plays possum on India’s achievements [...]
Share Sampa Kundu: The sixteenth summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was held on April 28-29, 2010 at Thimphu, Bhutan. The summit was attended by the Prime Ministers of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Pakistan and Presidents of Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives. Apart from this, the summit was observed by representatives [...]
Share Utkarsh Chaturvedi: Nearly every nation went through tough times in the past couple of years. Some due to recession, some due to terrorism and some due to natural calamities. With each other’s help, the countries still managed to go ahead with their plans undeterred. There are many groups of nations which actively take part [...]
