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CHINESE PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO INDIA 15 May 2013 | 10:19 am
B.RAMAN Prime Minister Li Kequiang of China, who took over in March last, is to visit India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany during his first round of overseas visits after taking over as the Prim...
STATE OF MY CANCER---AN UPDATE 14 May 2013 | 01:19 pm
B.RAMAN (Medical history. Will be 77 in August next ) 27-9-2009—Heavy blood in urine after I returned from evening walk. Only one episode.Underwent cystoscopy in Apollo Main, Chennai. Urologist—Dr. ...
IMPACT OF PAK ELECTIONS ON TIES WITH INDIA 11 May 2013 | 04:19 am
B.RAMAN There is a need to restrain euphoric expectations from the positive statements on relations with India coming out of some mainstream Pakistani political leaders such as Nawaz Sharif, former P...
PAKISTAN: ELECTIONS OF QUESTIONABLE VALUE 8 May 2013 | 08:10 am
B.RAMAN The reported accident at an election meeting in Lahore on May 7,2013, at which Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI), was injured requiring hospitalisation, has added ...
NEW JIHADI MAGAZINE IN ENGLISH FOCUSES ON SOUTH ASIA, INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN & INDIA 7 May 2013 | 07:30 am
B.RAMAN SITE, an Internet monitoring group, has drawn attention to a new web-based jihadi magazine in English called “Azan”. 2.According to SITE, the magazine is believed to have been started by jih...
BEIJING UNDERLINES PLA'S ROLE IN WESTERN CHINA 5 May 2013 | 08:18 am
B.RAMAN According to the Xinhua news agency, the Xinjiang authorities have arrested 11 more suspected terrorists in connection with the investigation of a violent incident on April 23,2013, in a town...
CHINA: TIME FOR A CHANGE OF STRATEGY 3 May 2013 | 08:55 am
B.RAMAN It is more than two weeks now since a platoon of the PLA of China moved about 19 kms into Indian-claimed territory in Eastern Ladakh which, according to India, is on its side of the Line of A...
LEH: THOSE MAGNIFICENT KAO-BOYS ON MULE-BACK 1 May 2013 | 02:21 pm
A CORRECTION In the above-mentioned article, I had referred to A.P.Verma of the 1959 batch of IPS from UP. A reader has pointed ...
CHINESE MANOEUVRES AGAINST INDIA'S POSSIBLE USE OF THE GILGIT-BALTISTAN CARD 1 May 2013 | 01:57 pm
B.RAMAN In an article of December 20,2010, titled “Sino-India border row: China's bid to boost Pak 'presence' in J&K” carried by Rediff.com at http://www.rediff.com/news/column/chinas-bid-to-boost-pa...
LEH:THOSE MAGNIFICENT KAO-BOYS ON MULE-BACK--DOWN THE MEMORY LANE 27 Apr 2013 | 08:30 pm
B.RAMAN In the external intelligence division of the Intelligence Bureau, headed by B.N.Mallick, DIB, and subsequently post-1968 in the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW), headed by R.N.Kao, Leh was a c...