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At first knock, the temptation for all stake-holders, particularly the non-Hindutva sections of the ruling BJP, would be to blame it all on the recent streak of ‘intolerance’ that has been sneaked into the nation’s body-politic and media discourse all over again.
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It was a Sad Sunday for the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as what was touted as a photo-finish electoral contest turned into a clear victory for the Grand Alliance led by incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the Hindi heartland state of Bihar.
As the counting began early Sunday morning, initial leads suggested the BJP-led NDA leading in more seats than its rivals, but the premature euphoria and celebrations turned into gloom and doom for the ruling party at the Centre, with the final phase of the counting showing the Grand Alliance leading in more than 150 seats. The alliance look set to get nearly double the seats secured by the BJP-led alliance in Bihar.
Economic diplomacy is going to be the reigning flavor during India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UK. Buoyed by upbeat projections for the Indian economy, top British multinationals are planning to unveil USD 15 billion of trade and investments in India during Mr Modi’s visit.
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The India-Nepal relations have plummeted to a new low, with a fresh rhetorical warfare erupting between the two neighbours, which are intimately bound by historical, cultural and fraternal ties. In …
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Parliamentary elections in Myanmar will take place on November 8. Considerable anticipation and expectation has been generated in international media about the implications of these elections for Myanmar’s march to democracy. Questions are being raised whether the elections will be free and fair, credible, inclusive and transparent.
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In what will be the first meeting between leaders from People’s Republic of China and Taiwan since the end of a civil war in 1949, President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou are set to hold their first ever cross-strait meeting in Singapore on November 7.
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With Moscow raising the stakes by resorting to aerial bombing to flush out radical Islamist militants in Syria, the US has decided to send special troops to Syria after it …
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Turkey will elect its 26th Parliament on November 1, 2015. This snap election takes place within five months of the last election on June 7, 2015. No party was able to secure a majority in that election. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which has been in power since 2001, fell short of a majority by 18 seats.
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In a recent letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the travails of the Indian fishers arrested/harassed by Sri Lanka Navy (SLN), Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa commended ‘coercive diplomacy’ as a possible way to make Colombo see reason.
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India and Africa have agreed to establish a formal monitoring mechanism to track the implementation of agreed projects and ensure that there is no gap between ideas and action.
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