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LTTE father Prabhakaran killed

Tuesday 19 May '09

Ending his violent three-decade campaign for an independent Tamil homeland, Sri Lanka today announced it had killed Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran....
India-China face-off worsens over ADB loan for Arunachal

Friday 15 May '09

India and China are headed for a major confrontation with Beijing digging its heels in and not giving its consent to $2.9-billion India development plan.
US Bill on aid to Pak waters down India-specific conditions

Wednesday 6 May '09

To allow greater flexibility to the Obama Administration in controlling aid to Islamabad, the Kerry-Lugar Bill, the Senate version of the Bill....
Process in pieces

Tuesday 5 May '09

Don’t rejoice at ‘Maoist hara-kiri’. India must keep talking to all players
China wants to join Navy initiative on Indian Ocean, MEA says no need

Tuesday 21 April '09

Pushing for a greater say in Indian Ocean region, China has sounded out Indian Navy that it wants to be inducted in some form into 33-member Indian Ocean Naval Symposium initiative started by India.
Dawood’s brother was abducted, shot

Sunday 19 April '09

More than two weeks after news broke that Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Noor-ul-Haq alias Noora had died of natural causes on March 31....
Pak to donors: spent $35 bn in terror fight, need more

Thursday 16 April '09

Pakistan has told a group of major international powers that it has spent $35 billion in the war on terror since 2001-02...
At ADB, Beijing blocks India’s $60-m project for Arunachal

Tuesday 14 April '09

Days after it objected to President Pratibha Patil’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh, Beijing has stunned New Delhi at the Asian Development Bank...
US House Bill links Pak aid to crackdown on terrorist groups targeting India

Saturday 11 April '09

It's got a cautious welcome in New Delhi and is expected to provoke strong pressure from Islamabad.
Indo-US chill setting in, talk of even nuclear deal for Pak

Sunday 5 April '09

Days ahead of Washington’s Afghanistan-Pakistan envoy Richard Holbrooke’s visit to New Delhi.....
Delhi sees a grim pattern: Pak cops increasingly in terror’s line of fire

Tuesday 31 March '09

As India watches with concern the rapid spread of terrorist incidents in the heart of Pakistan’s Punjab province, the one pattern that’s emerged in the last year.....
German counter-terror force to help set up Mumbai SWAT team

Sunday 29 March '09

The Mumbai Police have been in touch with Germany’s elite counter-terrorism force, GSG-9, to create for the first time a Special Weapons and Tactics.....
Obama AfPak plan on frontburner, so India may need to thaw its border chill

Friday 27 March '09

The Obama Administration will signal a decisive break from the Bush approach in Afghanistan, European powers will work on Russia and Iran...
CIA chief coming today, interim US envoy on way

Wednesday 18 March '09

CIA Director Leon Panetta's visit to India underlines the urgency in Washington to step up cooperation with New Delhi.
China puts its money in Western dual use tech firms

Sunday 15 March '09

Decisive moves by China in the past few months to invest in western companies dealing with dual use technology items at a time when most firms are reeling.....
First-ever National Security Doctrine on drawing board

Sunday 8 March '09

Forced into action by a dramatically changing security environment that has only worsened since the Mumbai attacks....
Behind Pak-is-Somalia bluster by Congress, deep concern in Delhi

Wednesday 4 March '09

The first-ever terror attack on a cricket team in Lahore and that, too, on Sri Lanka, which sought to make a political point by agreeing to fill in for India....
Dhaka rebels reveal plot to provoke Army, topple Govt

Sunday 1 March '09

With the committee headed by Bangladesh Home Minister starting a probe into the gruesome revolt by Bangladesh Rifles, informed assumptions of a conspiracy behind the mutiny...
Trouble in backyard, east & west

Thursday 26 February '09

The mutiny at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in Dhaka today has set off concerns in New Delhi about the implications this may hold for newly elected Prime Minister....
US game for larger UNSC, China sups with naysayers Pak & Co

Wednesday 25 February '09

The new US administration’s subtle shift in stand to back the move to expand UN Security Council membership last Thursday....
FBI chief to land in India in first week of March

Sunday 22 February '09

As investigations into the Mumbai attack move into the next phase of trying the accused and widening the ambit of arrests...
Russians want another $700 mn for Gorshkov

Friday 20 February '09

Original cost agreed was $1 billion, raised to $2.2 billion in 2007, now up to $2.9 billion
Govt changes mind, picks Pak, US envoys

Thursday 19 February '09

Reversing its earlier logic not to make any significant Ambassadorial appointments before elections...
Pak-Taliban truce rings alarm bells in New Delhi

Wednesday 18 February '09

Islamabad's purchase of peace by acceding to enforcement of Shariah has raised serious concerns in New Delhi on several counts, particularly Pak Army’s apparent inability to squarely check the influence of Pakistani Taliban that is now beginning to reverberate even in Punjab province.
How US leaned heavily on Pakistan

Friday 13 February '09

Significantly, all of Pak's crucial admissions indicate that Islamabad has acknowledged - and acted upon - evidence gathered by FBI.
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