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South-South Cooperation has acquired a new salience in the international development cooperation calculus. In this wide-ranging conversation with Manish Chand, Editor-in-Chief, India Writes Network, Dr Manuel Montes, Senior Advisor on …
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More than six months after the grandly-staged India-Africa Forum Summit, Vice-President Hamid Ansari heads on the first such trip to the North African countries of Morocco and Tunisia.
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In a delicate balancing act vis-à-vis two major players in the volatile West Asia, India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will be in Iran over the weekend, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s substantive visit to Saudi Arabia.
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Cricket, Bollywood, Politics and Family – these four passions that resonate across India will frame the maiden visit of Britain’s royal couple Prince William and Kate Middleton, kindling the start of their long friendship with this incredibly diverse country.
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Rejecting the clichéd India-Pakistan hyphenation in Washington’s geopolitical calculus, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has underlined that the US has a much bigger global agenda with India than with Pakistan, and declared his country’s support for the fruition of the ‘Make in India’ campaign.
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Imparting a fresh ballast to their strategic and security partnership, India and Saudi Arabia, New Delhi’s top oil supplier and host of the nearly 3 million-strong Indian community, have signalled a paradigm shift in their counter-terror cooperation by signing a pact to target terror financing and jointly called for dismantling sanctuaries of terror.
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It was a morning of business for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Riyadh, pitching the India Story and showcasing new opportunities unleashed by the world’s fastest growing economy.
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It was the Modi diaspora connect show, albeit with a difference. The usual glitz and song-and-dance spectacular was missing; but the rhetoric was soaring and inspirational as Prime Minister Narendra Modi chatted casually with Indian workers, shared food, heard them out, showered praise on them, and let them take selfies with him.
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In a game-changing move, Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude supplier and the Gulf’s most powerful economy, has unveiled plans to create a $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund.
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Spiritual home of Islam and the energy powerhouse in the Gulf region, Saudi Arabia has rolled out the red carpet to welcome India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his first visit to the country that will cohere New Delhi’s ‘Think West’ policy and Riyadh’s Act East policy to spawn a new strategic vision for this crucial partnership.
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