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Brain Drain: A Dilemma

By Qais Saracen • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: Features

According to a renowned dictionary, disparities in education lead to shortages of skilled workers and educated managers in developing countries. An unskilled workforce is less productive and receives lower wages. Lower wages, in turn, encourage highly educated workers in these countries to migrate to industrialized countries to earn higher salaries. This migration, known as the [...]



Indo-Bhutan relations

By Afshain Afzal • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Bhutan, a Himalayan kingdom of 635,000 people, geographically located between China and India, has one of the highest per capita incomes in South Asia at over $2,000. Bhutan is a very peace loving and friendly country and its people are happy and prosperous. On November 6, 2008, formal coronation of 29-year-old Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar [...]



Indian hand in Nepal’s Royal Palace Massacre

By Isha Khan • Jan 27th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Former Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda has accused India of carrying out the Palace massacre in which King Birendra was killed along with his family and also communist stalwart Madan Bhandari eight years ago, reports Telegraphnepal.com.
Prachanda, chairman of opposition UCPN (Maoist) party, claimed that the main reason behind the killing of [...]



India Must Rethink Its Policies Towards Its Neighbors

By Isha Khan • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics

For the past 63 years - the life span of most countries of this region, South Asia has remained in a state of tension. The eight SAARC countries* that make up this geopolitically sensitive region, where a major chunk of the humanity lives, do not enjoy the kind of friendly and harmonious relationship with each [...]



Muslim India

By Aftab Alam • Dec 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics

All the narcissism the Bharat has been bragging thereon has not been Hindus heritage exclusively save some portion thereof. ‘Ashoka the great’ has added some portion to this heritage but he was a Buddhist. Finally British Empire has also a share in contributing to Indian heritage but the 1000 years Muslim Rule has a lion’s [...]



Jitters in Delhi

By Isha Khan • Mar 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

India’s Lok Sabha election is being held next month. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Indian Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) are contesting in the polls. Recently, foreign policy has become an Indian election agenda for both the ruling alliance and the opposition. Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee recently disclosed [...]



RAW’s Game Plan

By Isha Khan • Feb 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

On 61 national day of Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse expressed that shadows of terrorism have almost been wiped out with the last remnants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cornered in a patch of jungle in the island’s northeast. He further stressed while saying “I am confident that the Tigers will be [...]



Time to Warn India

By Dr RazaHaider • Feb 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Technically India shall not understand the motto of freedom since she had never crossed the road to freedom and infact this country was being left for resident, by Ravishers as waste. It was the freedom fight of Muslim that took India as well to the state of release as unforeseen gift.



Nepal bans Bollywood film

By Isha Khan • Jan 29th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Nepal has banned the Bollywood movie ‘Chandni Chowk to China’ following protests over a scene suggesting the Buddha was born in India, officials said Thursday.

Siddartha Gautama, who became the original Buddha around 2,500 years ago, was born in southwest Nepal and is considered a national luminary, appearing on bank notes in the deeply spiritual Himalayan [...]



RAW : An Instrument of Indian Expansionism

By Guest Blogger • Jan 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), created in 1968, has assumed a significant status in the formulation of India’s domestic and foreign policies, particularly the later. Working directly under the Prime Minister, it has over the years become and effective instrument of India’s national power. In consonance with Kautilya’s precepts, RAW’s doctrine is based on [...]