India’s GSLV launch: A major milestone for ISRO
After two successive failures of its Geostationary Launch Vehicle (GSLV) launches in 2006 and 2010 and an aborted mission in 2013, India’s endeavour to launch another GSLV on January 5 …
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New beginnings: Maldives leader India’s first state guest in 2014
New Year, new beginnings. Indian diplomacy has kicked off 2014 with the state visit of the newly-elected Maldives president, underlining the country’s focus on building robust relations with its neighbours …
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Chief Minister Kejriwal scripts a new politics of change
Symbolising a new politics of hope and people-centric governance in the world’s most populous democracy, Arvind Kejriwal, the engineer-turned-politician, has become the youngest chief minister of Delhi. In a carnival-like …
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Agony & anguish of Narendra Modi: ‘Shaken to the core’ after Gujarat riots
Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate of India’s chief opposition BJP, has a talent for springing surprises. Demonised by many for his alleged complicity in the 2002 riots in Gujarat, …
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‘India to be world’s 3rd largest economy by 2028’
Amid none-too-bright bright forecasts for the Indian economy in the near term, this projection should bring some cheer to those betting on the India growth story. A London-based economic consultancy …
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China’s 2014 challenge: Rebalancing the economy
Cross the river by feeling the stones, as Deng Xiaoping famously said. But China’s new leaders will perhaps need more method, rather than intuition, in shepherding the rebalancing of the …
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A ray of hope for India-Pakistan ties
The end of the year has brought in a slight ray of hope for the troubled India-Pakistan relations, with the two South Asian countries renewing their resolve to maintain peace …
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Diplomat row: Distrust between New Delhi and Washington?
The arrest of the Indian deputy Consul General in New York, Ms Devyani Khobragade, earlier this month, based on a complaint by her maid of underpayment and on charges of …
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Frontier Gandhi’s Legacy
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, or Frontier Gandhi, has always posed an equal challenge to both cynics and optimists. The cynics find it hard to dismiss a man who created an …
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India-Myanmar economic cooperation: The road ahead
For once, there seems to be a convergence of interests for both the South-east Asian countries as well as the West in Myanmar, ever since the resource rich country undertook …
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