Chasing an Asian Century, PM Modi set to galvanise India-ASEAN ties

Selamat Pagi. Chasing the dream of a rainbow Asian Century, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched down in his special aircraft at Bunga Raya airport in Kuala Lumpur on November 21 to begin a three-day visit to Malaysia that is set to galvanise the country’s newly-christened Act East policy and open up new pathways of cooperation with this economically vibrant and strategic region.

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Ahead of Modi-Li meet, India, China focus on upgrade of security, counter-terror cooperation

Ahead of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in the Malaysian capital, the two Asian giants have taken a defining step to upgrade their security and counter-terror cooperation, which has acquired an added urgency in the backdrop of the Paris terror attacks and the growing scourge of the Islamic State.

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Modi’s Africa: Skill, Scale and Speed

It’s time for Afro-optimism in India, and it is crystallised in the ongoing third India-Africa Forum Summit, the biggest diplomatic show India has hosted in over three decades. The narrative of a resurgent continent is intersecting with that of a rising India, opening up new vistas for reinvigorating a critical partnership between the two growth hubs of the rejuvenated global South.

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Building South-South Digital Bridge: Pan-African e-Network

It’s a digital bridge connecting the two emerging growth poles of the world in a transformational project of mutual empowerment and resurgence. Blending technology, innovation and creative diplomacy with the overarching project of socio-economic transformation and sustainable development, the Pan-African e-Network is bridging the digital divide across the African continent and is bringing tele-medicine and tele-education to the African people living thousands of miles away by linking them to premier educational institutions and super-specialty hospitals in India.

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