Green and Clean: New mantra for India-US relations
Is green the new bright colour in the multi-hued India-US relations? And ‘green is clean’ the mantra of the future as the world’s most powerful and most populous democracies look …
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US-India education connect: Building an innovation-driven workforce
It’s a knowledge-driven partnership, with practically limitless possibilities. With India aiming to upskill 500 million job-seekers by 2022, a staggering number that surpasses the entire population of America, the world’s …
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Kerry On: India, US set for straight talk, to rejuvenate ties
“The defining partnership of the 21st century,” as US President Barack Obama has evocatively described the India-US relations, will be in for a fresh appraisal and possible rejuvenation when the …
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Scripting democracy in Cambodia, with Indian ink
They are not just bottles of ink; they are repository of democratic dreams. Produced in Mysore, India’s southern city, 40,000-odd bottles of indelible ink, used to coat voters’ fingers to …
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All izz well! When Bollywood flirts with Chinese Kung Fu, for peace
India and China may quibble over many issues, but when it comes to films, they don’t mind crossing borders. Shedding their differences over weightier issues, the two Asian giants have …
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Obama-Xi summit: US, China poised to re-define relations
The leaders of the US and China are looking to re-define terms of engagement amid dissonance on an array of issues ranging from cyber-attacks and trade deficit and firm up a …
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Power Play in Asia: India, China, Pakistan fuel nuke games
It’s playtime in Asia. And how, as the Asian boys are growing up, they are playing with bigger, shinier and noisier guns. Not just guns, other toys too from the …
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A new spring: India, Japan ‘major actors’ in shaping a rising Asia
Amid the flux in the Asia-Pacific geopolitical landscape, India has enunciated a robust vision of an Asian century that puts closer security and economic ties with Japan at the heart …
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India hopes for robust strategic and economic ties with Japan
Ahead of his May 27-30 visit to Tokyo for the annual summit between his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to Japanese journalists in New Delhi …
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Post-2014 roadmap: India assures more aid to Afghanistan
Against the backdrop of the withdrawal of foreign combat troops from the violence-wracked, land-locked country, India has assured Afghanistan that it is “prepared to increase bilateral contribution to institution-building, training …
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