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China’s top leadership has been especially proactive in reaching out to India’s new prime minister, with Chinese President Xi Jinping sending his special envoy Wang Yi to Delhi to firm up an ambitious agenda for expanding the canvas of engagement between Asia’s emerging powers.
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Putting South Asia first in his foreign policy calculus, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is heading on his first foreign trip to Bhutan, a nascent Himalayan democracy and a country that enjoys special time-tested relations with New Delhi.
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After high-voltage, headline-hogging South Asia diplomacy, it’s time for the new government to infuse spark in India’s “Look Middle East” policy as it gets ready to host the foreign minister of Oman, the Gulf state which is home to 700,000 Indians who send home $3 billion in annual remittances.
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In the end, the winner takes it all, and Washington, which once shunned Narendra Modi, has rolled out a charm offensive to court the new leadership in Delhi and set an ambitious target of scaling up India-US bilateral trade five-fold to $500 billion.
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“Out-of-box thinking.” Striking an upbeat note on the trajectory of India’s external engagements in the days ahead, India’s new external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj indicated innovative thinking could well be the mantra of the foreign policy of the new government in India.
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Unveiling his desire to transform India-Pakistan relations, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif held his first meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and underlined the need for both countries to work together to fructify “the common agenda of development and revival.”
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It’s the Modi Moment: the myth, magic and mystique of the man shone in the summer air, marking a new beginning in India’s contemporary political history. Narendra Modi, a former tea seller-turned-politician, was sworn in as the 15th prime minister of India….
Read MoreThe 15-member UN Security Council has collectively condemned in the strongest terms the attack on the May 23 Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s Herat province, underlining the need to bring perpetrators …
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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.
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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