India’s billionaire club on upswing
The number of billionaires in India is expected to be doubled in the next decade, which will make Asia’s third largest economy the fourth in the list of nations with …
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India’s UNSC aspirations: Is China on board?
The trilateral Russia, India and China (RIC) forum concluded its 13th foreign ministers meeting in Beijing on February 2, 2015. Calling for a comprehensive reform of the United Nations, including …
Read MorePM hits out at Kashmiri separatist’s release, PDP-BJP alliance under strain
The controversial release of Hurriyat hardliner and militant sympathizer Masarat Alam has put the BJP-PDP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir under severe strain, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi making it …
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Boko Haram pledges alliance with Islamic State
Marking an entwining of pan-Islamist terror groups, Boko Haram, the brutal Nigerian militant group, has promised an allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The leader of Nigeria’s …
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Saudi Arabia becomes world’s biggest arms importer
Saudi Arabia overtook India in 2014 as the world’s top importer of defence equipment, according to a new study on defence spending by London-based defence specialists. The report is published …
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Indian IT consultant stabbed to death in Sydney
A 41-year-old Indian IT professional, Prabha Arun Kumar, was stabbed to death in Sydney in Australia on March 7, just a few metres from her home. Prabha Kumar was talking …
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Why gender would have more of a role in Clinton’s 2016 Presidential campaign
When Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for the President last time, her campaign struggled to address the matter of her gender in a balanced manner. She seemed conflicted between acknowledging her …
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Arun Singh is India’s envoy to US
Amid a new bounce in India-US relations following the visit of US President Barack Obama to New Delhi in January, India has named Arun Kumar Singh, a 1979 batch Indian …
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Swaraj in Sri Lanka: Transforming ties and China factor
The ongoing two-day visit of India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is the third bilateral high-level exchange in two months, and underlines a new vitality in multifarious relations between the two neighbours.
India’s foreign minister’s visit is aimed at setting the stage for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to the island nation next week. The visit is the first by any Indian prime minister since Rajiv Gandhi’s trip in 1987. Mr Modi will be on a multi- city tour in Sri Lanka, visiting the Jaffna province as well as addressing the Sri Lankan parliament.
In the days to come, Sri Lanka shall have to do some tightrope walking to keep the investment flowing in from China, while tilting towards India. Amid the shifting geopolitics of the region, one can safely say that the new government in Colombo has begun course correction by underlining the centrality of New Delhi to Colombo’s national interests even as it pursues its economic ties with Beijing, albeit in a possibly attenuated manner.
Gloria Steinem: Writing the only thing
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” — Gloria Steinem
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