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LUCKNOW, India - Fourteen young job seekers traveling home on the rooftop of an overcrowded train were killed when they hit a low overhead road bridge in northern India, police said Wednesday.
They had been among thousands of hopefuls that had turned up for just 461 jobs being offered by an Indian paramilitary force.
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.... -- Dr. Binayak Sen (1, 2) . Indian authorities are fighting against what Prime Minist... violations have been committed by paramilitary and security forces, the local police, and a milit...
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LUCKNOW, India -- Landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 43 people in three remote villages in northern India, a police official said Sunday.
Twenty bodies were pulled from the debris after the landslide Saturday buried the villages in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand state, said S.M. Shamim, a paramilitary force commander.
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MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that its Spectra Shield(R) and Gold Shield(R) materials will provide bullet-resistance to body armor for Indian paramilitary and police forces.
As part of a contract awarded by India's Ministry of Home Affairs to MKU Pvt. Ltd., an India-based supplier of body armor, Honeywell's Gold Shield and Spectra Shield composite materials will be the primary ballistics protection incorporated into 59,000 jackets that each contain two breast plates. The first shipment of armor is likely to be sent to the Central Reserve Police Force by the end of June 2010.
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This paper examines the trends in India's ties with Afghanistan in the last few years and argues that driven by its growing regional and global ambitions, India is following a multi-pronged strategy in Afghanistan. This paper underlines the structural factors that are the most important ones in determining India's response to the changing strategic environment in Afghanistan. India's rise in the global inter-state hierarchy over the last decade has led India to define its regional foreign policy in more ambitious terms than before and the success of India's Afghanistan policy will go a long way in determining if India will be able to emerge as a provider of regional security in South Asia. A very brief historical overview of India-Afghanistan relations is followed by the delineation of ...
...The Cold War also forced the two states to assume roughly similar foreign p... provided by a three hundred-strong paramilitary force provided by India itself because of which th...
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With its profusion of languages, ethnic groups and regional diversities, with its unique caste system, with its contrast between information technology and industry billionaires and the nearly 300 million people who live below the poverty line, with its mixture of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent philosophy and outbreaks of savage communal violence, and with its success as a parliamentary democracy despite having 400 million people who cannot read or write, India remains a bewilderingly complex country. A powerful moral leader as well as a wily politician, Gandhi wanted Indians to be proud of their past, to wear Indian rather than foreign dress, to challenge their colonial overlords through peaceful protest and noncooperation and not through violence, and to eliminate discrimination against...
... servants backed by substantial military forces ruled 284 million Indians, mainly Hindus, but abou... in several phases so that police and paramilitary units can shift around to ensure that polling is o...
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... of war forbids states from responding with force unless an attack can be attributed to a foreign st... major states such as Russia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and E...at 175-76. 202 See Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicar. v. U.S...
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[...] how did the Pakistani military fare in its counterinsurgency campaigns from 2004-2008 under then-President Pervez Musharraf? [...] the Taliban regime provided sanctuary to al-Qaeda both before and after 9/11.
...-armed face off with congenital archrival India, and wages an increasingly brutal and deadly war a...The Pakistani Army's conventional force structure, doctrine, and training-a legacy of its ... (1) not have sufficient regular and paramilitary force ratios called for by counterinsurgency doctr...
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... irregular organizations, often paramilitary in nature, which carry out extrajudicial execution... existed in other world regions (Africa and India, for example), in Latin America U.S. policy was li...
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... voluntary (15) "civic patrols," paramilitary groups that aid the army by accompanying them on t... target population, mainly as a result of force or the threat of force. . India: Narmada Valley De...