Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr P V Ramana addressed the officers of Karnataka Police at a training programme on ‘National Security: Focus on Karnataka’. The Programme was organised under the aegis of the Institute of Contemporary Studies, Bangalore, with the support of Director General of Police, Training, Karnataka, on May 15-17, 2012.

Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr P V Ramana delivered a public lecture on ‘India’s Maoist Movement: Current Trends, Implications and Way Forward’, at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore on May 15, 2012. Leading English daily, ‘The Hindu’ carried a report on the lecture on May 16.

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Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Cherian Samuel made a presentation on Prospects for India-US Cyber security Co-operation at a round table on ‘US-India Homeland Security Cooperation’ organised by Security Watch, India and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC) on May 14, 2012.

Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Uttam Sinha participated in an interaction on water issues with Bangladesh and Nepal journalists, organised by MEA-XP at The Taj Hotel, New Delhi.

Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Uttam Sinha spoke on the South Asia Water Issue at SIS, JNU. Dr Sinha was speaking at a seminar conducted by the Association of Asia Scholars.

Senior Research Associate, IDSA, Dr Udai Bhanu Singh participated in a meeting on Myanmar organised by ICWA, New Delhi on May 10, 2012.

Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr P V Ramana, made a presentation atthe Senior Officers Tactical Management Course, Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy (SVP, NPA), Hyderabad, on May 2, 2012.

Director General, IDSA, Dr Arvind Gupta attended a Roundtable with the Afghan Foreign Minister, Mr Zalmay Rassoul, on May 1, 2012. The Roundtable was organised by the Delhi Policy Group. A detailed briefing was provided by the Afghan Foreign Minister on Indo-Afghan relations and the US-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership concluded recently. Others present in the Roundtable were the Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan, along with several other strategic affairs experts.

Dr Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, IDSA, attended the 4th and final meeting on Water Resource Security, organised by the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) in Chiang Rai, Thailand on April 30, 2012.

Senior Research Associate, IDSA, Dr Udai Bhanu Singh gave a presentation at a seminar on India-Myanmar China Relations at Manipur University, Imphal on April 28, 2012.