Les Birmans obtiennent le droit de grève. The Haqqani network: Snake country. The Quandary of India's Maoists. Army says it’s not their job Despite being overshadowed by Kashmir and continuing tension with Pakistan, dealing with Maoist rebels in central and eastern India is regarded as the country’s biggest internal security challenge, and one the military doesn’t feel it is equipped to deal with. On the surface it seems an odd insurgency.
Since dropping the so-called License Raj, India has been developing at breakneck speed, averaging nearly 7.5 percent annual gross domestic product growth since 1999 and bringing millions of formerly poverty-stricken people into the formal economy. However, in huge areas of Central and Eastern India, corruption, government inaction, rapacious mining companies and other issues have caused other millions to opt for Maoism, a political philosophy that has been abandoned by most of the world, including China, where it developed.
If implemented properly, the move could be a major step towards addressing a bit of the angst that fans the Naxalite movement. A High-Tech War Against Slights to a Centuries-Old Monarchy. Machinations behind Thai military movements. Page 1 of 2 Machinations behind Thai military movements By John Cole and Steve Sciaccitano Thailand's government released its highly anticipated annual fall military reshuffle list on October 1 after an unusual delay. The list, which originates in the armed forces and must be approved by the prime minister and ultimately the monarch, promotes, reassigns and sometimes sidelines senior officers of the three main military services and historically has put the armed forces at loggerheads with civilian politicians.
This year's delay prompted speculation that political tensions might already be developing between Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's Puea Thai party-led government and the powerful military, which overthrew her elder brother Thaksin Shinawatra's administration in a 2006 coup. Specifically, there were concerns that the delay might signify a breakdown of the terms of the In the short run, both sides can likely live with the reshuffle's results.
Continued 1 2. New Steps to Tackle an Old Problem - Poverty. It was in the nature of Indian politics then to pass off minor charities as reforms. The poor, who did not really believe that their condition could be improved by human intervention, accepted these gestures as great acts of kindness. When Mr. Ramachandran died in 1987, there were reports of people setting themselves on fire in grief, and hundreds of thousands of people attended his funeral, even though he had not made them as rich as he had made himself. Indians are less gullible now. But how? A few days ago, the Planning Commission of India, a relic from the days of socialism and central planning but still a powerful government institution, accepted the recommendation of a committee that had been headed by Suresh Tendulkar, a former member of the prime minister’s Economic Advisory Council who died in June, and set the poverty line at a monthly household expenditure of 4,824 rupees, or $98, for an urban family of five and 3,905 rupees in rural areas.