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Violence in Bodo Areas: Address the Armed Component
Dr N Manoharan

After a three-month lull, violence has once again erupted in the Bodo areas of Assam. It was in July-August this year the areas witnessed major violence between Bodos and Muslims resulting in over 100 deaths and about 400,000 displaced. If the issue

December 03, 2012 Terrorism, Ilegal Immigration, National Security and Strategic Studies, Police - Law and Order
Special Laws to Counter Terrorism in India: A Reality Check
Dr N Manoharan

A National Convention held recently in New Delhi on ‘Politics of Terror’ has brought to focus the need to re-look into provisions of special laws that are currently in use to counter terrorism. When confronted with armed militancy, democracies fa

November 20, 2012 Jammu & Kashmir, North-East Insurgency, National Security and Strategic Studies, Governance and Political Studies, Police - Law and Order
SAARC Home Ministers’ Meet: Injecting Multilateralism in Counter-Terrorism
Dr N Manoharan

How significant did the fifth meeting of SAARC Home/Interior Ministers held in Maldives on 24-26 September 2012 prove to be? It is difficult to answer this question exactly in qualitative terms, but quantitatively, the meet was noteworthy in three as

October 17, 2012 Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies
The State of India-Sri Lanka Relations: Ethnic Issue as an Irritant
Dr N Manoharan

In the recent days, the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has figured in at least four issues pertaining to Sri Lanka: protests against training of Sri Lankan defence personnel in the state, threats to Sri Lankan pilgrims touring the state, turning

September 17, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies, Sri Lanka
Violence in Bodo Areas: Issues and Options
Dr N Manoharan

Violence in Bodo areas is not a simple story of communal conflict between Bodos and non-Bodos, but is a complex issue with socio-cultural, economic, political and security dimensions. Clashes have erupted from time-to-time1 in the area, but the situa

September 01, 2012 North-East Insurgency, National Security and Strategic Studies
Illegal Migration as a Threat to India’s Internal Security
Dr N Manoharan

Among other things, one of the major aspects that have come out of the recent communal violence in Bodo areas of Assam is illegal migration. According to the Group of Ministers Report on National Security, illegal migration has generated a host of de

August 06, 2012 North-East Insurgency, Ilegal Immigration, National Security and Strategic Studies, Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh
China’s Involvement in India’s Internal Security Threats
Dr N Manoharan

Unlike Pakistan, the involvement of China in meddling with India’s internal security is not a simple story of ‘sub-conventional warfare. It is more nuanced and complex. Under Mao Zedong, China supported revolutionary insurgencies throughout the w

July 30, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy, China
Abu Jundal’s Arrest and India-Saudi Arabia Counter-terrorism Cooperation
Dr N Manoharan

The arrest and deportation of Abu Jundal alias Abu Hamza alias Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) handler, involved in several terror attacks in various parts of India, by Saudi Arabia is a classic case of good counter-terrorism cooperat

July 06, 2012 Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, International Relations and Diplomacy
Fishermen Issue and India - Sri Lanka Relations
Dr N Manoharan

The Problem: The issue of fishermen straying in each other’s territorial waters has come as a potential irritant in the otherwise generally good bilateral relations between India and Sri Lanka. In the latest instance, the Sri Lankan Navy on 26 J

June 29, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies, Sri Lanka
Maoists’ ‘Look East Policy’
Dr N Manoharan

The problem of the Left-wing Extremism (LWE) has been like a shifting pain that moved from West Bengal to Bihar in 1970s, and then to Andhra Pradesh in 1980s. After nearly two decades, when there was pressure in Andhra Pradesh, the Naxals found s

May 25, 2012 Terrorism, Leftwing Extremism, North-East Insurgency, National Security and Strategic Studies
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