After 2+2 with US, Swaraj heads on Moscow charm offensive
A week after the 2+2 dialogue with the US, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj heads on a two-day visit to Moscow for a crucial meeting that will firm up agenda …
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After 2+2 show, Trump tars India & China with subsidies brush
In US President Donald Trump’s lexicon, 2+2 does not exactly add up to 4, as long as trade deficit persists! Days after the 2+2 dialogue between the foreign and defence …
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India, US sign COMCASA, converge on Indo-Pacific
NEW DELHI: Taking a leap of faith, India and the US, the world’s oldest and largest democracies, decided to take their burgeoning defence partnership to the next level by signing …
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2+2 = 4-5-6 of India-US relations
Get your maths right. In the evolving arithmetic and calculus of India-US relations, 2+2 could add up to more than just 4. The 123 moment, crystallised in the transformational civil …
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2+2 India-US dialogue: What’s cooking behind the hype?
The much “Trump-eted” 2+2 moment in India-US relations is finally here. Amid a rapidly mutating geopolitical landscape in the Indo-Pacific region and a slew of global and regional hotspots vying …
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Turkey defiant on buying S-400, India hopeful of US waiver
ANKARA/NEW DELHI: Amid worsening US-Turkey relations which has roiled the country’s economy, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has underlined that Ankara will go ahead with procuring Russian S-400 missile system, …
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BIMSTEC: Towards a Peaceful, Prosperous and Sustainable Bay of Bengal Region
Fourth BIMSTEC Summit Declaration : INSTITUTIONAL REFORM Decide to task the BIMSTEC Secretariat to prepare a preliminary draft of the charter for the organization, building on the 1997 Bangkok Declaration, …
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PM Modi at BIMSTEC 2018: Focus on enhancing regional connectivity
PM Modi said that his participation in the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit in Kathmandu signals India’s highest priority to its neighbourhood and …
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Vajpayee’s foreign policy legacy: Making India count, globally
Taking risks and pushing the envelope, but always keeping India’s vital interests centre-stage, was the hallmark of Vajpayee’s foreign policy. It is this multi-dimensional diplomacy that will sustain and nourish …
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Kofi Annan: Quester for a better world, conscience-keeper
Diplomat extraordinaire, a quintessential humanist with an ingrained empathy for the underdog, Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general and Nobel laureate, has bequeathed a lasting legacy to the world in the …
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