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Barely days before a new government takes charge in Delhi and India’s prime minister-designate Narendra Modi meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Delhi, the Indian consulate in the Afghan city of Herat was attacked May 23 by four militants.
Read MoreIndia’s incoming prime minister Narendra Modi’s outreach to Pakistan and immediate nighbours in South Asia has elicited praise from the US and kindled expectations in the region that the new regime in Delhi, despite its tough posture on terror, will be bold in re-engaging Islamabad and pursuing the dream of regional integration.
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Days after he was elected with an overwhelming mandate to lead the world’s largest democracy, India’s prime minister-designate Narendra Modi has unfurled the South Asian dream as the leaders of SAARC countries have been invited by Delhi to attend his swearing-in ceremony next week.
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Among the low hanging fruit that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government could pluck in a bid to transform the country, is to restructure and reform the Ministry of Defence and …
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Since the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the complexity of internal security of challenges faced by the nation has increased. In order to deal with these challenges, a concerted, institutional approach based on the widest possible political consensus and improved Centre-State synergy is required.
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Elections-2014 has thrown up for the first time in 30 years a parliament in which the Treasury Bench does not have to do number-crunching all the time, to push policy initiatives, legislative initiatives and even budgets – which have more often than not been passed in the midst of din and dust, with no one left any wiser on what was proposed or whatever was discussed.
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They are the new castaways of India’s politics. The massive Modi tsunami has swept away mascots of caste politics in India, tossing these so-called messiahs of backward castes into oblivion. The spectacular drubbing of caste-based parties in the 2014 elections in India has been interpreted by pundits as a potential paradigm shift in India’s political landscape with the politics of vote banks giving way to development-centric politics, blended with a dose of Hindutva, which has been exemplified in the overwhelming victory of the BJP and Narendra Modi.
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Ending a nine-year chill with the man who is set to be the leader of the world’s largest democracy, US President Barack Obama has congratulated the prime minister-elect Narendra Modi on his party’s “historic victory” in India’s parliamentary elections and invited him to visit Washington.
Read MoreMay 16, 2014. It may sound a shade exaggerated to some, but historians will recall May 16 as the day when the people of India affirmed a new politics of national renaissance and renewal as the world’s most populous democracy voted for change and rejected dead clichés that had strangled and stupefied the nation for decades.
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The landslide victory of the BJP has triggered waves of enthusiasm in India’s corporate sector and has kindled enthusiasm among the international investor community that the new government will deliver on the much-needed second generation economic reforms.
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