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Myanmar’s President Win Myint and NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi after the fourth anniversary celebration of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement at the Myanmar International Convention Centre in Nayzpyiztzw on October 28.

Myanmar: Struggling democracy

As Myanmar gets set for the 2020 general election, peaceful and inclusive democracy remains a far cry: in fact Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 24.

Diminishing relevance of the U.N.

Apart from the local dynamics underpinning any conflict, macro structural variables of the U.N. impinge on its ability to make a difference, particula

Pakistani troops patrol near the Line of Control, the de facto border between Pakistan and India, in the Chakothi sector in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir on August 29.

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill: A cure worse than the disease

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill is no panacea to the region’s multilayered problems. It has in fact added to the existing problems.

On the boil

Inter-regional tensions are at the core of the protests over the Amarnath land issue.

VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi LUV PURI in Jammu

A winter of violence

A ceasefire violation along the Line of Control and renewed armed offensives by militants break the winter calm of Jammu and Kashmir.

LUV PURI in Srinagar

Former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah, president of the National Conference, with Home Minister Shivraj Patil at North Block in New Delhi.-SANDEEP SAXENA

Reviving the autonomy debate

ON the political front, 2005 for Jammu and Kashmir started with the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre deciding to reop

Village defence committee members on a patrol in the Pir Panjal ranges near Surankote.-PICTURES: LUV PURI

A jehad against militancy

Having lived for long at the mercy of gun-toting terrorists, the people of remote hamlets in Surankote have launched a movement of armed resistance.

Gujjars with their herd of sheep near Sopore in the Kashmir Valley.-V.V. KRISHNAN

A struggle for survival

The Scheduled Tribes continue to be politically and economically weak, mainly owing to the apathy of the State government.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed (right) and Finance Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig. They welcomed the package.-NISSAR AHMAD

The real concerns

Manmohan Singh's initiative pays attention mainly to the economic needs of the State. There is some disappointment in the Valley that it does not addr

Soldiers carry the body of a suspected militant killed in a gun battle in Srinagar, on November 17, at the venue of the rally addressed by Manmohan Singh.-RAFIQ MAQBOOL/AP

A package for Kashmir

The Prime Minister's economic package for Jammu and Kashmir is a welcome decision, but real development can take place only after peace returns to the

A Gujjar family in Aliabad Serai in south Kashmir. The Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir has consisted of well-defined regions that are secular in character and are based on culture and geography.-PRAVEEN SWAMI

A communal scheme

The Musharraf plan targets the harmonious mosaic of diversities in Jammu and Kashmir and threatens to blow it apart, which even violence in the State