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Signalling a thaw in India-Pakistan relations, the National Security Advisors (NSA) of India and Pakistan Ajit Doval and General Naseer Janjua met in Bangkok on December 6 to discuss all …
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The Blue Economy dream is set to bring India and Mauritius in a tighter strategic embrace. Building on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to the archipelago nation in March this year, the December 6-10 visit by Bibi Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim, the first female president of Mauritius, is set to bolster multi-layered ties between the two countries.
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The delegates from 195 countries at climate change talks in Paris are under pressure to produce a working text of a deal by the weekend. This is set to bring out sharply sticking points and fault lines nearly halfway through the UN negotiations.
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Amid growing green pressure from developed countries, India has expressed willingness to cut down on the usage of coal in return for climate finance. India is expected to become the …
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Heavy torrential rains in the past few days in southern India’s largest metropolitan city Chennai have brought the vibrant city to a standstill. The rains are said to be the heaviest in the last century. The Indian Army has been deployed for round-the-clock rescue and relief operations. As the Indian Meteorological Department forecast more rains over the next three days, leading Indian environment experts attending the Paris climate change summit have speculated that the crisis is the ‘full-blown impact’ of global warming.
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WASHINGTON: Under siege from his critics for perceived rise in intolerance in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi can always bank on his friend ‘Barack’. In lush praise which is …
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A subtle but sure competition is emerging between New Delhi and Beijing in courting Africa with each of these two rising countries in Asia offering wider choices for the African nations. “Beijing Consensus” of multilateralism, “non-intervention”, “no regime change”, “win-win” was counter posed in the last decade against the dominant Washington Consensus.
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The members of the leading emerging countries bloc BASIC, including India, have stressed on the need for the developed world to define a clear roadmap for providing USD 100 billion …
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PARIS: Amid the ongoing tussle between developed and developing countries at the global climate success, China, the world’s second largest emitter, has upped the pressure, and underscored the core principle …
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Has the climate changed in the perennially prickly India-Pakistan relations? Or was it the Paris magic and collective pressure to cut out on emissions (read bad vibes)?. Whatever it was, the 160-second meeting between the leaders of India and Pakistan in Paris has made banner headlines, overshadowing more substantive discussions on the opening day of the global climate summit that is expected to birth a new green future for the planet and its inhabitants.
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