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A new regional architecture
It has been a series of purposeful meetings in Kuala Lumpur this week for most of Asia. India's presence and participation, first, in a summit with the Association of South East Asian Nations and, then, in the first East Asia Summit are a good ...

A digital bridge for the world's children
The United Nations World Summit on the Information Society has affirmed its commitment to bridge the digital divide that prevents vast sections from reaping the benefits of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In a significant step ...

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Towards an upheaval in Jammu & Kashmir?
By Praveen Swami

Unnoticed, the pressures on the troubled State's political system are building. A seismic reordering of its structures seems inevitable in the not-too-distant future.

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Water and India's Constitution
By T.N. Narasimhan

Water has to be given an important place in the Constitution to guide and empower the legislature, the judiciary, and the executive to regulate its use.

The Makkah Declaration: rhetoric and reality
By Hamid Ansari

The Makkah conclave produced a declaration that is strong on sentiment and exhortation, and less so on specifics.

Ivory Coast's fragile peace
By Jonathan Steele

The war is over but Ivorians are still paying the price: poverty, desperation and infection.

Russia looks to Southeast Asia
By Dmitry Kosyrev

AT THE ASEAN-Russia summit in Malaysia on December 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin focussed on practical here-on-the-ground issues, detailing factors that promote or hinder Russia's effort to become for Southeast Asian nations an economic ...

Expansion is only way to cut EU dole queues
By John Grieve Smith

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