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Amid the frenzy and fever of the world’s most colourful elections, India’s diplomacy is quietly and meaningfully humming along as the country’s foreign secretary and senior diplomats head east, west, north and south, in quest of new opportunities unleashed by a rapidly globalising world.
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In a boost for India’s energy diplomacy in the resource-rich Central Asia, Kazakhstan has offered ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas arm of the country’s oil major ONGC, a stake …
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The guessing game can go on, but with barely a fortnight to go before the results of parliamentary elections are declared, Pakistan has signalled its readiness to restart the dialogue process with India after a new government is installed in Delhi later in May.
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Hours after a catastrophic landslide that hit the north-east Afghan province of Badakhshan, India has underlined its solidarity with the Afghan people and offered to help in rescue, relief and rehabilitation efforts to help the victims of this enormous disaster.
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Any outcome statement that describes itself as non-binding and as one that “hopefully contributes to the evolution of the internet governance ecosystem” sets itself up to being judged harshly by …
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The US is readying to start a new chapter in its economic relations with India marred by friction over issues related to intellectual property rights, with Washington’s top trade official …
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The twin blasts targeting a train in Chennai, the capital of India’s southern state Tamil Nadu, amid parliamentary elections in the country has triggered speculation about a possible terror plot, with the state government putting critical installations in Chennai on high alert. A multi-agency probe has been ordered into the incident. Informed sources said that India’s Ministry of Home Affairs had asked the state police to submit a report on the blast.
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In determining whether or not it is necessary to revisit India’s nuclear doctrine it would be relevant to examine how it evolved, its main features, the reasons behind the calls to revisit it and the factors which militate against so doing.
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In an indication that India’s relations with Pakistan are heading for a rough patch under a likely BJP government in New Delhi, India’s chief opposition asked Islamabad not to meddle in its internal affairs after a Pakistani minister said that the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will “destabilise regional peace.” In remarks that are seen widely as intrusive and distasteful in India, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s comments that Modi, if elected o power, will destabilise regional peace, elicited sharp reaction from the BJP, with the ruling Congress also registering its outrage.
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It’s a journey without frontiers. Thirty people, 19 countries, one common mission: honing in on the art of holding elections and keeping the democratic fire burning.
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