Articles By B Raman
India-China Border Dispute
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2013
The continuing (since April 15,2013) Chinese troop intrusion ( about 20 troops) 10 kms into Indian territory near Burthe in the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) area of Eastern Ladakh in the western sector...
Can 1996 repeat itself in Afghanistan?
By: B Raman | Date: 14 Apr , 2013
As the US troops prepare to thin themselves out of Afghanistan starting from next year, India has to worry whether 1996 can repeat itself in Afghanistan, when the Taliban, with the help of...
Anti-Muslim rumours spread in Central Myanmar
By: B Raman | Date: 28 Mar , 2013
Anti-Muslim rumours projecting Muslims negatively have spread to Rangoon from Meikhtila which has been placed under a State of Emergency following three days of Buddhist-Muslim clashes last...
Buddhist-Muslim Clashes in Meikhtila
By: B Raman | Date: 25 Mar , 2013
Between 20 and 26 persons are reported to have been killed in three days of violent clashes between Buddhists and Burman Muslims (not Rohingyas) in the central Myanmar cantonment town of...
Xi Jinping on Sino-Indian Relations
By: B Raman | Date: 22 Mar , 2013
In his first visit abroad as the President of China since assuming office on March 14,2013, Mr.Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit Russia, Tanzania, South Africa and the Republic of Congo from March...
Marines: An Over-anxiety to oblige the Italian Government
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
An over-anxiety on the part of the Government of India to oblige the Italian Government on the issue of the two Italian Marines, who have been charged with killing two Kerala fishermen wrongly...
A set-back to Islamic extremism in Bangladesh
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Mar , 2013
The Shabag movement of Dhaka, which is also referred to as Bangladesh Spring, has been like the Tahrir Square movement of Egypt (2010), a spontaneous uprising of the youth of Dhaka demanding the...
RAW Operations in Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Feb , 2013
‘The Hindu” of February 26, 2013, has carried an article titled “ No Solace In This Quantum of Accountability” written by Samir Saran, Vice-President, and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Programme...
Hydrabad Blasts
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2013
Eleven persons are reported to have been killed and over 87 injured in two well-timed explosions in the Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad around 7 PM on February 21,2013. Initial reports indicated...
Accountability of Intelligence Agencies
By: B Raman | Date: 13 Feb , 2013
Intelligence agencies have to be accountable to the Executive. Otherwise, there will be no secrecy in their functioning. Without effective secrecy, there cannot be clandestine collection of...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - I
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 09 Feb , 2013
Pakistani assistance for the anti-Government of India activities of alienated sections of the Indian society was not due to only its revanchist spirit following its loss of the then East Pakistan...
Cases of Headley & Rana: What Next?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jan , 2013
The Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India has been less than honest with the public by trying to convey an impression that it will continue to try for the extradition of David...
Headley-Rana: Cover-Up of an Iceberg
By: B Raman | Date: 24 Jan , 2013
Tahawur Hussain Rana, of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) and the principal accomplice of David Coleman Headley, has already been sentenced by a Chicago court to 14 years in prison...
Balochistan: Shia anger against Gen Kayani
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jan , 2013
The genocide of the Shias continues unabated in different parts of Pakistan— particularly in Balochistan, Gilgit, the Kurram Agency and Karachi. The security forces and the intelligence agencies...
No change in Pakistan’s Military Doctrine!
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2013
Media reports emanating from Pakistan’s civilian Government as well as from the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the Army speak of an on-going review of Pakistan’s military doctrine in order...
When justified outrage degenerates into anarchy
By: B Raman | Date: 24 Dec , 2012
In all democracies, the public has a right to demonstrate in public in a peaceful manner, but it does not have the right to demonstrate where it will, when it will and how it will. The police can...
Insensitive timing of Rehman Malik's visit
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2012
If NaMo, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, had been well-advised, instead of raising the issue of Sir Creek, he would have raised the insensitive timing of the official visit of Mr. Rehman Malik, the...
Maldives: Loss of traditional goodwill for India
By: B Raman | Date: 09 Dec , 2012
The unfortunate cancellation by the Government of Mohammad Waheed of the Maldives of the contract given to a consortium led by the GMR, an Indian company, for the running of the Ibrahim Nassir...
Action plan to deal with Maoist Insurgency
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2012
Start a crash programme for the development of road and telecommunications infrastructure in the entire tribal belt of Central India. The Chinese realised that without effective road and rail...
Shocking Case of Miscarriage of Justice
By: B Raman | Date: 26 Nov , 2012
Instances of miscarriage of justice are many in India. Sometimes, such instances arise due to gross negligence by the police in the investigation.Sometimes, due to wanton fabrication of evidence...