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With a view to stamp out fraud and ensure that students have the financial capacity to live and study in Australia, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC), Government of Australia announced (August 2009) strengthening of checks on student visa applications. The targeted measures, which will address the potential for document fraud and other issues around financial capacity, identification and bona [...]
As part of Government’s efforts to combat the menace of international terrorism, Ministry of External Affairs has signed agreements for establishment of Joint Working Groups (JWG-CT) on Counter-Terrorism with 25 countries and 2 regional organizations. The JWGs provide a forum for counter-terrorism cooperation enabling sharing of information, experience and assessments regarding global terrorism, training and capacity building including in relevant [...]
India and China through negotiations are seeking to arrive at a final settlement of the International Boundary between India and China. There is no commonly delineated Line of Actual Control (LAC) between the two countries. From time to time, on account of differences in the perception of the LAC, situations have arisen on the ground that could have been avoided [...]
The regulation and risk assessment of GM crops must address two questions. First, what is the degree of enforcement and commitment to keeping India safe? And second, what is required to regulate this hazardous technology before the environmental release of any GMO [genetically modified organism]? The need for extreme caution arises from the fact that once released into the environment, [...]
Islamist fundamentalist organisations rooted in religious obscurantism have long been prone to sudden bursts of irrational violence at the slightest provocation. The stone-throwing and arson in Karnataka by fanatics against the publication in a Kannada daily of an article, purportedly by Taslima Nasreen, on wearing of the burka were a nasty challenge to the freedom of expression guaranteed in the [...]
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