Articles By B Raman
NCTC: Creation of KGB in India?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2012
Of all the Chief Ministers, who have protested against the proposed creation of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in the Intelligence Bureau of the Government of India with effect...
Counter-Terrorism: Need to Revisit Security Procedures
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2012
Since 2007, five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in Iranian territory. In some of these instances, the terrorists had attached small magnetic bombs to the exterior of the victims...
Terrorist Attack on Israeli Diplomat
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Feb , 2012
The wife of the Israeli Defence Attache in New Delhi, her Indian driver and two bystanders on the road were injured on February 13, 2012, when what was believed to be an explosive-cum-incendiary...
The Pakistani Conundrum
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Feb , 2012
After having fairly successfully defied the Army over the so-called Memogate affair, the elected Pakistani Executive headed by President Asif Ali Zardari has now chosen to defy the judiciary on...
Fears of Pakistanisation of Maldives
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2012
There has been disquiet among the large number of supporters of former Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed over indications that appeared on February 11, 2012, that India, the US and the...
Mutiny in Maldives Leads to Replacement of President Nasheed by his...
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2012
The Maldives saw dramatic developments on February 7,2012, when President Mohammed Nasheed was forced to step down from office following a mutiny by about 100 officers of the Police and the...
Opening-Up of Myanmar
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2012
The three-day (Nov.30—Dec 2, 2011) visit of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, to Myanmar— the first by a US Secretary of State since the visit of Johan Foster Dulles in 1955—...
Russian-Chinese nervousness influences their vote on Syria
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2012
The veto by Russia and China on February 4,2012, of a resolution in the UN Security Council that called upon Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down in the face of the persisting movement...
India: Back to France
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2012
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> The Government of India must press ahead with its last-lap negotiations with Dassault Aviation of France for the finalisation of the definitive contract for the acquisition of 126 Rafale...
Curfew in Western Sichuan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2012
11 Tibetans Die in Police Firing A curfew has been imposed and a shoot-at-sight order has been given to the police following two days of violent protests by Tibetans in certain parts of Western...
L'Affaire Salman Rushdie
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2012
The situation became sensitive and complex. One would have expected the Government of India to stop this intimidatory campaign initiated by the Deobandis in the bud and make it clear to them that...
Future of Kashmiri Pandits?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2012
It is 23 years today since Jammu & Kashmir saw the beginning of the ethnic-cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), from their homeland at the...
Time for Solidarity with Balochs
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jan , 2012
The Killing Fields of Balochistan have started shocking the conscience of the international community. Not only non-governmental human rights organisations, but even Governmental spokesmen of...
Unfolding US foreign policy attempts to contain China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jan , 2012
As President Obama nears the end of his first term and gets ready to seek a second term, he has sought to give a new focus to the US foreign policy towards Asia. This new focus is marked by two...
China bolsters Pak Army's image
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2012
As the Pakistan Army confronts the US on the one hand and the civilian leadership headed by President Asif Ali Zardari on the other in a triangular re-assertion of its primacy in strategic...
The War of Nerves in Pakistan: Q & A
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jan , 2012
Q: What is the likelihood of Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), staging a coup, seizing political power and imposing the rule of the Army till fresh elections...
Pak Army : Back from the Barracks
By: B Raman | Date: 24 Dec , 2011
Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), who had taken the Army back into the barracks after succeeding Gen.Pervez Musharraf as the COAS and announced that the Army...
Kim Jong-Un: Little Known Ruler of an Unpredictable State
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2011
One need not be surprised by the regional and global nervousness over the death of Kim Jong-Il, the ruler of North Korea, following a heart attack reportedly suffered by him on board a train on...
China's state sponsored tweeters and their paid tweets
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2011
On December 9,2011, Radio Free Asia, funded by the US State Department, disseminated a report attributed to the Agence France Presse (AFP) regarding how China has been trying to counter...
Speculation Regarding Zardari
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2011
The “Dawn News” of Karachi has reported as follows: “President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday (December 6,2011) arrived in Dubai for a medical check-up. According to presidential spokesperson...