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India’s Act East policy, enunciated with vigour and vision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is set to acquire greater force and traction during his November 21-24 visit to Malaysia and Singapore that includes participation in the twin ASEAN and East Asia summits as well as a string of bilateral engagements.
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Barely minutes after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi rounded up his eloquent oration at the iconic Wembley stadium in London, multiple terror attacks rippled across Paris, killing more than 120 people.
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Bathed in colours of the Indian tri-colour, the London Bridge looked incandescent in the winter evening as Great Britain rolled out a full-throated charm offensive to court the leader of the world’s largest democracy and one of the world’s fastest growing economies.
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LONDON: Marking a new phase of their rejuvenated partnership, India and Britain have capped years of negotiations by signing a civil nuclear cooperation pact that will enable enhanced collaboration in areas of atomic research and safety.
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It was a question he may have expected while preparing for his trip to India as the leader of the world’s largest democracy, and not surprisingly his answer was well-rehearsed.
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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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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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Barely days after meeting the leader of Europe’s most powerful economy in New York at a summit meeting to push the UNSC reforms, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be engaging German Chancellor Angela Merkel for full-spectrum talks in New Delhi and seek Berlin’s renewed support for his pet missions of national renewal, including Make in India, Skill India and Smart Cities.
The fact that Ms Merkel is bringing with her six senior ministers and top corporate honchos for the October 4-6 trip to New Delhi and Bangalore underlines that the two countries are looking to push the envelope for what Europe’s top economy and Asia’s third largest economy can do together in a host of areas, including manufacturing, skill building, defence, vocational education and high-end R&D, core thrust areas of the burgeoning India-Germany partnership.
In seminal ways, India and Germany are made for each other, as Prime Minister Modi has said evocatively, conjuring up a match between resources and demographic dividend of Asia’s rising economy and Germany’s cutting-edge technology, research and innovations. Whichever way one looks at, Germany is pivotal to India’s project of national resurgence and will play a key role in India’s ambition to become a manufacturing hub, driven by innovation and enterprise.
Raising the bar, India has unveiled plans to scale up its contribution to UN peacekeeping operations and linked it up with the urgent necessity of fast-tracking reform and expansion of the UN Security Council to make it more effective.
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The climate has changed in the India-US relations, and it was palpable in sunny smiles and warmth seen between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama as they met for the third time in a year
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