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Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal among world's top ten billionaires
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China accuses Dalai Lama of 'separatism' in anniversary speech
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India, US set to expand trade in strategic, hi-tech areas
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Lawmakers blocking women's reservation bill evicted from Parliament
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India agrees to be listed in Copenhagen accord
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Kabul attack will not bend India's will: Manmohan
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More cash for the needy: Beijing switches money from the military
Jane Macartney
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Indian army captain killed in Kashmir
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Two pilots killed as naval plane crashes into Hyderabad buildings
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Bangladesh objects to EU's criticism on ethnic violence
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India’s defence allocation for 2010-11 goes up by four per cent
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Focus on welfare schemes in India's budget for 2010-11
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India will be fastest growing economy in four years: Survey
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India's food inflation now at 17.58 per cent
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Taliban behead two abucted Sikhs
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India's economic growth to remain on track: President
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Gender inequality widespread in Asia: UNDP
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Despite vibrant economic growth in Asia-Pacific area including India, the region has not done much to assimilate women in the mainstream and bridge the deep gender...
South Asia escaped the worst of global recession: World Bank
Washington, Feb 24 (IANS) With sound economic policies, India,Bangladesh and Bhutan are expected to emerge from the global economic crisis with stronger growth performances in South Asia, according to...
Removing trade barriers can boost South Asia trade: World Bank
Washington, Feb 18 (IANS) Intra-regional trade in South Asia could increase from $5 billion to $20 billion and trade between India and Pakistan could jump from $1 billion to $9 billion if trade....
Bangladesh to amend law for restoring property seized from Hindu minorities
Dhaka, Feb 16 (IANS) Bangladesh's parliament will amend the law for restoring property seized from minority groups, mainly Hindus, a minister said here Tuesday.
Bangladesh to benefit from India’s rise, US envoy
DHAKA, Feb. 12 (IANS): Bangladesh should not have any fears over India’s rise as a superpower as Delhi’s emergence would fetch benefits for Dhaka, US ambassador to Bangladesh...
India may sign contract to buy 29 MiG-29K naval fighter jets during Putin's visit
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) India is likely to ink a deal to purchase an additional 29 MiG-29K fighter jets, valued close to $1.12 billion, from Russia during the visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in March.....
Australia still seeks Indian tourists
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) Despite the negative image of Australia in Indian minds at the moment, the country is seeking more tourists from India, building on the....
By Richa Sharma
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.: Focus: India-Pakistan Relations
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Pakistan - India Relations: Anticipating Positive Change
The February 25 meeting of Indian and Pakistani Deputy Foreign Ministers can be regarded as evidence that the US is switching.....
Can Saudi Arabia be an interlocutor in South Asia?
Mediating in conflicts in South Asia particularly between India and Pakistan since the inception of bilateral animosities has become...
Dialogue with Pakistan only way forward: PM
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Ruling out any third party mediation in
bilateral issues between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh Friday ........
US encourages India-Pakistan dialogue, rules out mediation
Washington, March 3 (IANS) Stressing that both India and Pakistan have
legitimate security interests in Afghanistan, the United States says
it encouraged a dialogue between the two neighbours but has ruled out
any mediation between them.....
Saudi can be interlocutor, not mediator: Tharoor
Riyadh, Feb 28 (IANS) India regards Saudi Arabia, with its close ties to Islamabad, as a "valuable interlocutor" in improving ties with Pakistan, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Sunday said, but clarified that it did not mean any mediation by Riyadh on bilateral issues.....
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.: Focus – The Restive Af-Pak
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Karzai to visit Pakistan to seek help on talks with Taliban
Kabul, March 9 (Xinhua): Afghan President Hamid Karzai will pay a two-day visit to Pakistan on Wednesday and is expected to ...
Why AfPak diplomacy is on a roller coaster?
The London conference on Afghanistan on January 28 was a high watermark of the US's AfPak diplomacy...
Holbrooke regrets Kabul comments, lauds India's Afghan role
Washington/New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) US Special Envoy Richard
Holbrooke Friday went on a damage control exercise saying he regretted
his ......
US to offer smart-bomb kits, drones to Pakistan: WSJ
Washington, March 3 (IANS) The United States will transfer
sophisticated laser-guided-bomb kits to Pakistan as part of a recent
push to better arm Islamabad for its military campaign against Islamic
militants, the Wall Street Journal reported.......
Four Indians among 15 killed in Taliban attack on Kabul
Kabul, Feb 26 (DPA) Four Indians were among 15 people who were killed when Taliban bombers equipped with suicide vests and automatic rifles attacked a hotel and a guesthouse in central Kabul Friday, officials said.......
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Indian monk charged with murder in Nepal
Kathmandu, Feb 25 (IANS) Nepal’s police have formally charged an Indian monk belonging to the renowned Bharat Sevashram Sangh order with murder following the death of a six-year-old boy who was entrusted to the care of the home and school run by the organisation in Kathmandu....
Nepal gets its first sex store
Kathmandu, Feb 19 (IANS) Nepal had the first casinos in South Asia and was probably the first in the region to approve of same sex marriages...
India offers $250 million credit line to Nepal
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Besides signing four pacts during the visit of the Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav, India has offered $250 million line of ...
Nepal's minister offends New Delhi by linking local media tycoon's murder to India-Pak tension
Kathmandu, Feb 16 (IANS) India Tuesday objected to the reported comment by Nepal's minister and government spokesman that a controversial Nepal media tycoon ...
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Unknown terror group claims responsibility for Pune blast
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) An unknown Pakistan-based terror group, the Lashkar-e-Taiba Al Alami (LeT-international), Tuesday claimed responsibility for the bombing in a Pune eatery that killed 10 people Saturday evening. ...
Two arrested for Pune blast, death toll rises to 10
Pune, Feb 16 (IANS) Two people have been arrested in connection with the Feb 13 bombing here, police said Tuesday as the toll in the terror attack rose to 10 with a 24-year-old college student from Uttar Pradesh succumbing to his injuries. ...
Headley's recce missions linked to Pune blast, home secretary
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS): Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Monday said there was a link between Saturday's Pune blast that killed nine people and the recce missions conducted by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) suspect David ...
No concrete leads in Pune blast probe: investigators
Pune/New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Two days after a terror attack killed nine people including three foreigners in a Pune bakery, police said Monday that they had "no concrete leads" to the bombers ...
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India supports political settlement of ethnic dispute in Sri Lanka, foreign secretary
Colombo, March 8: Visiting Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa...
Indian foreign secretary to visit Sri Lanka
New Delhi, March 5: India's top diplomat will visit Sri Lanka later
this week in a bid .....
Sri Lankan Supreme Court rejects Fonseka's plea for release
COLOMBO (DPA): The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a plea for the release of a former army commander in military custody for two weeks on charges of conspiracy...
British foreign secretary risks Sri Lanka's wrath to support Global Tamil Forum
Relations between Britain and Sri Lanka are likely to hit a new low after David Miliband addresses a meeting of Tamil activists from around the world...
Rise of Sri Lankan President's son Namal Rajapaksa sparks concern Jeremy Page
Modesty is apparently not a strong point for Namal Rajapaksa, the 23-year-old son of the Sri Lankan President - and scion of Asia's....
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India tests new high performance rocket
Bangalore, March 4 (IANS) India successfully conducted the flight test
of its new generation high-performance sounding rocket from the
spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, the space agency said
Thursday.
Faster and cheaper swine flue test kit developed by defence scientists
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a swine flu testing kit that can diagnose the pandemic in just two hours and reduce the cost of a single test fivefold - to less than Rs.1,000.....
Two resignations, many fallouts in climate geopolitics
Two big-ticket resignations last week will have far-reaching effects on climate geopolitics. The decision by India's top climate negotiator Shyam Saran to quit will make it easier for...
Space technology to identify whale sharks off Gujarat
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Indian scientists will try to distinguish individual whale sharks off the Gujarat coast, using a technique employed by NASA to identify galaxies.
Shashi Tharoor's dance diplomacy
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Diplomacy tends to be practiced in a rather predictable way. But now, Minister of state for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has come up with a new concept - dance diplomacy.
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Editor Speaks
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Pakistan's army: living in a state of strategic denial
The Army is caught in an inflexible mode of strategic denial about its past, which is why it appears both unable and unwilling to deal with its present internal security challenges. This is the 'truth' that President Asif Ali Zardari has been trying to reveal.
C. Uday Bhaskar
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Opinion
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India's Rise, America's Interest: The Fate of the U.S.-Indian Partnership
Evan A. Feigenbaum is Senior Fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served during the George W. Bush administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia. The article had appeared in the Foreign Affairs....
Evan A. Feigenbaum
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Mother of all Jihads
FEEL THE deja vu. India's nightmare in the Kashmir Valley may well return to haunt again. "jihad is the only solution to free Kashmir from the Indian yoke," thundered one separatist after another last week, to boisterous sloganeering by armed cadres.
Seema Mustafa
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What if Pakistanis land at our border?
A good friend from Lahore, an activist deeply committed to people’s rights and the integrity of Pakistan’s legal structures, asked me a question so startling that it took a while to sink in. What would India do if a million Pakistanis reached the Wagah border, demanding safety in India from the Taliban and its ancilliary ideological warriors?
M J Akbar
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Pakistan's impending 'Cambodian Moment'
A Taliban regime in Pakistan would not only tear at the social fabric of Pakistan and plunge millions into fratricidal conflict, it would potentially place nuclear weapons in the hands of lunatics like Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar!
Dr. Harold Gould
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US arms sales to Pakistan will upset military balance in South Asia
The American ambassador in Pakistan said recently that the US Defence Department is considering the sale of 12 unarmed drones to Pakistan to encourage it to cooperate in the war on terror. It is not beyond Pakistan's technological capability to arm these UAVs with air-to-ground missiles for use in conventional conflict.
Gurmeet Kanwal
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Failure of Indian intelligence: The buck stops nowhere
It is not really difficult to see where the problem is: an intelligence structure which has yet to emerge from its colonial legacy and a bureaucratic stranglehold. The structure and operational philosophy of police and intelligence units have not changed much since British days.
Wilson John
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