France mounts charm offensive, but jet deal set for long haul
Since the beginning of 2013, France has gone into an overdrive to charm the Indian political leadership to ensure the estimated $22 billion deal for 126 combat jets for Indian …
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Australia, India, Indonesia: A Trilateral Dialogue on Indian Ocean
Like many other countries – or perhaps more than other countries – India’s policy elite is transfixed by China’s rise and evolution in the international arena. In few other strategic …
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang paid an official visit to India during May 19-22 this year. India was the first country that he visited after assuming the post of Chinese Premier. …
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An Asian Century: India, China need to know more about each other
Often we find ourselves speaking of the 21st century being the Asian century. And it is our firm belief that the Asian century dream will remain unfulfilled if India and …
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Afghan concerns drive India closer to SCO
As the SCO’s annual show unfolds in Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, India has renewed its pitch for full membership of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and underlined that this Central Asia …
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Is there really any proof on Syria?
The debate on Syria, in the Western media, is already narrowing down to the timing and modality of bombing as to whether it should be a ‘limited, surgical strike aimed …
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Dreaming big: Africa’s first female president on India journey
It’s not often that a visiting foreign leader brings nine senior ministers to another country. But in a sign of India’s growing engagement with her country and the West African …
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India needs stable external environment to restore robust growth
The world economy is not in good shape. There is some good news of a strengthening of growth in some industrialised countries, but it is not broad based. The prospects …
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Maldives: Towards a free and peaceful poll
Ahead of the first round of presidential polls on 7 September, the Election Commission (EC) of Maldives recently came out with do’s and don’ts for the nation’s police force. It …
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Zubin Mehta in Kashmir: Playing Beethoven amid partisan chatter
It looks like a scene from an aesthete’s paradise: the luminous music of Beethoven and Haydn is poised to mingle with echoes of Amir Khusrau’s couplets of longing in the …
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