Needed: A meeting of minds between India and China
The Year 2014 has been designated by the governments of India and China as the Year of Friendly Exchanges. I am delighted to be with you today to launch the …
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India and Africa: Shared Cultures, entwined destinies
It’s an unending journey, laden with history, nostalgia and cross-cultural intermingling. If the two-way trade between India and Africa is now racing to touch $100 billion by 2015, it all …
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Ariel Sharon: The only Israeli Prime Minister to visit India
Ariel Sharon is dead. As his life and legacy is discussed across the world, Ariel Sharon, who remains a controversial figure, will be remembered in India as the first Israeli …
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Vietnam ups diplomatic offensive over Paracel islands
In a sign of assertion, hundreds of protesting Vietnamese activists marked the 40 anniversary of the Chinese invasion of the contested Paracel Islands in South China Sea January 19, reviving …
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India-Korea bonding: Sambhar for the S(e)oul
Kyoungsoo KIM is the archetypal gentleman diplomat. Suave, witty and extremely warm, the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Chennai definitely checks all the boxes of an ideal …
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India, Japan deepen strategic, economic ties
The leaders of India and Japan, Asia’s leading democracies and economies, have pitched bilateral relations into a higher trajectory, and have imparted a strong strategic orientation to this relationship which …
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Japan a key partner in India’s development
It is a great pleasure to welcome Prime Minister Abe to India. We are delighted that he was able to accept our invitation to be Chief Guest at our Republic …
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Changing US-Iran relations and India
Amidst fresh threat of sanctions from the US Congress, Iran’s terms of rapprochement with the West, following the successful breakthrough in its nuclear talks with the P5+1 in November last …
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India, Japan should focus on the Asian strategic framework
Japan is clearly the flavour of the season as far as India is concerned. Japanese defence minister Itsunori Onodera was in New Delhi last week for consultations with his counterpart …
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President Park’s India mission: Opening new vistas for Seoul-New Delhi ties
The first lady president of the Republic of Korea, Park Gyun-hye, is visiting India January 15–18 2014 at the invitation of President Pranab Mukherjee. The visit would be a major …
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