War is not an option: Pakistan envoy
Ruling out any possibility of a confrontation between the two South Asian countries, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit has said that war is not an option and …
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Swaraj reaches out to African students, assures safety
Reaching out to the African students in India, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj allayed their fears following a series of recent attacks and assured them of full safety. “We tried …
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India’s ties with Africa good, not competing with China: VP Ansari
Hailing India’s ties with African countries as “good”, Vice President Hamid Ansari stressed that New Delhi is not competing with Beijing in the continent as the two countries have different capacities.
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India’s top diplomat meets African students, assures safety & security
With a series of high-profile visits from India to Africa in the offing, the Indian government is leaving no stone unturned to contain the damage caused by attacks on African …
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Time to Rejuvenate the India-Russia Partnership
Relations between India and Russia were up-graded from “strategic partnership” to “special and privileged strategic partnership” in 2010. Five years after this up-gradation and two years after the assumption …
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Washington-Hanoi axis: China asks Obama not to spark fire in Asia
Are the US and Vietnam ganging up to contain the rise of China? Beijing, which is upset by the much-publicized visit of US President Barack Obama to Hanoi, certainly thinks so.
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VP Ansari’s visit to Morocco, Tunisia to galvanise India’s Africa outreach
More than six months after the grandly-staged India-Africa Forum Summit, Vice-President Hamid Ansari heads on the first such trip to the North African countries of Morocco and Tunisia.
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Mukherjee’s China visit: Political trust holds key to major power ties
Political trust holds the key to harmonious major power relations between the two Asian giants. This was the overarching message of India’s President Pranab Mukherjee and Chinese President Xi Jinping …
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Global growth an urgent priority: G7 leaders
In the backdrop of a grim global economic scenario, the G7 industrialised nations have stressed on reviving global growth and discussed steps to prevent another major crisis. “Global growth …
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Obama visits Hiroshima, calls for moral revolution to eliminate nukes
In his historic visit to Hiroshima, the first by an American president to the only city to be bombed by atomic weapons, US President Barack Obama called for a moral …
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