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India, China for reasonable solution to boundary dispute
SINGAPORE - India and China have reiterated their willingness to find "a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution" to the "boundary question."
India, IAEA start talks for nuke safeguards pact
VIENNA - India and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday began crucial talks on finalising a safeguards agreement that will bring 14 Indian civilian nuclear reactors under global watch, clearing a key step for New Delhi's nuclear deal with Washington.
EU-India science and technology cooperation moves up another gear
New Delhi, Nov 7 At the start of his second official visit to India as the European Commission's top research official, Director-General Jose Manuel Silva Rodriguez stated
Fear not a rising India: US official
Washington, Nov 1 Rather than fear India's global transformation, it's critical for the United States to forge broad-based partnerships with a country increasingly exerting its influence on the world, suggests a senior American defence official.
Germany's Merkel pushes big business in India
NEW DELHI - German Chancellor Angela Merkel was pushing for big business with India Tuesday during a state visit aimed at invigorating trade and security links between Europe's largest economy and the Asian giant.
PM keeps n-deal hope alive, Germany offers support
NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday defended the embattled Indo-US nuclear deal as an "honourable agreement", saying despite delay in implementation it was not "the end of the road".
Indian stocks break all records again
MUMBAI - The bull run in Indian stock markets achieved another milestone with the benchmark sensitive index (Sensex) hitting the 20,000 points mark and the broader S&P CNX Nifty of National Stock Exchange crossing 5,900 points.
India accuses Pakistan of inciting Sikh radicals
October 17 : India's top national security official has accused Pakistan of trying to stir up Sikh militancy in northern Punjab state, striking a sour note ahead of direct talks this week between the rivals.
India's economic growth is at 'take-Off' stage
India's economy is at a ``take-off'' stage and is poised to grow as much as 10 percent a year for the next decade, Lehman Brothers Asia Ltd. said.
France Supports India's Bid for UN Permanent Seat
French Ambassador to India Jerome Bonnafont has said that his country wants to see India as a permanent members in the United Nations Security Council and as a full-fledged player in G-8 nations.
Peaceful use of nuclear energy needed: India
Strongly favouring total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, India has said its vision of "universal, non-discriminatory and comprehensive" nuclear disarmament was "more relevant" today as peaceful use of nuclear energy can help fuel development.
Forget the Israel Lobby. The Hill’s Next Big Player Is Made in India.
The fall’s most controversial book is almost certainly "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," in which political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt warn that Jewish Americans have built a behemoth that has bullied policymakers into putting Israel’s interests in the Middle East ahead of America’s. To Mearsheimer and Walt, AIPAC, the main pro-Israel lobbying group, is insidious. But to more and more Indian Americans, it’s downright inspiring.
India powers South Asia growth: World Bank report
Thanks to India, South Asia picked up the pace of regulatory reform over the past year to become the second-fastest reforming region in the world, on par with the speed of reform in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the annual World Bank report titled Doing Business 2008, has said.
Don’t make space a war zone: India
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Prithviraj Chavan has urged the space-faring nations to promote an ethical, legal framework for the use of space and to prevent it from becoming “a future war zone.”
Sibal’s 123
Union minister for science and technology, Kapil Sibal, is the new man on the block. He has emerged as the government’s legal expert on the civilian nuclear energy deal, although his arguments are not going to win him many clients. There is less of substance and more of courtroom dramatics in his presentation: the emphatic public school speech, the expressive raising of eyebrows ("Are they all stupid?"), the strong and even seemingly passionate rhetoric.
Indo-US deal will not affect country's strategic programme
NEW DELHI: With the Left allies stepping up the campaign against the Indo-US nuclear deal, the Congress has come out with a booklet rejecting charges that the agreement would affect India's ability to conduct an independent foreign policy and strategic programme.
India keen to work with Thailand
BANGKOK: India has indicated its willingness to cooperate with Thailand in the civilian nuclear energy sector “once the India-specific arrangement is in place” after discussions between New Delhi and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and after a relevant decision by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
India does not want another flashpoint in neighbourhood: Pranab
Bangkok: Strongly disfavouring any US military action against Iran, India on Friday said it did not want "another flashpoint" in its neighbourhood and hoped "good sense" will prevail, preventing the "precipitation" of the Tehran nuclear issue.
India a partner in global naval alliance: US
BAY OF BENGAL: The United States hopes to build an alliance with friendly navies such as India's to form a global force of 1,000 ships and boost maritime security, a top US naval commander said on Friday.
China to "vigorously" implement strategic ties with India
China will "vigorously" implement a bilateral agreement to upgrade Sino-Indian relations to strategic levels, Chinese Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi, said while hinting that Beijing is open to civilian nuclear energy cooperation with all countries under the IAEA safeguards, sources said here on Monday.
India should address disarmament issue: Japan
NEW DELHI: Expecting India to play a major global role once NSG approves the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, Japan on Tuesday said New Delhi will have to address disarmament and non-proliferation issue to demonstrate "authenticity" of its peace diplomacy.
Unrest in Pakistan's 'Northern Areas' may affect India, says book
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Rising sectarianism and unrest bordering on separatism in Pakistani Kashmir's sprawling Gilgit-Baltistan region, known as Northern Areas, could affect neighbouring countries like Afghanistan and India, says a new book.
India loses maximum lives to terror except Iraq
The US and UK may like to believe that they are leading the war on terror globally, but the country that has had to face the worst of terrorist attacks on its own soil, barring war-torn Iraq, is India.
Japan calls on India to join Asian 'arc of freedom'
NEW DELHI: India and Japan on Wednesday vowed to push for an economic partnership agreement by December, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged New Delhi to join Tokyo in the creation of an Asian "arc of freedom".
India's nuclear debate
When the United States concluded a nuclear deal with India last month, there were protests in both countries. The deal allows India to buy nuclear fuel and advanced reactor technology without having to limit its own production of nuclear weapons or foreswear the testing of new weapons.
123 pact: India got better deal than China
NEW DELHI: Where does the Chinese 123 agreement fundamentally differ from the Indian one? A cursory reading of the agreement says that America's international obligations would score over its domestic laws in the observance of the agreement.
US says sovereign India can do what it wants
WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday tacitly conceded India's sovereign right to conduct nuclear tests but suggested that such an eventuality would be unnecessary and anachronistic in the modern era.
India's strategic autonomy will be retained: PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said there is no compromise in any manner on India's independent foreign policy on account of the civil nuclear deal with the US and the strategic autonomy will be retained.
Piecemeal progress
Former Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Laskhman Kadirgamar said not long before an assassin’s bullet killed him that relations between his country and neighbour, India, had reached a point of “irreversible excellence”.
9% GDP growth is widely inclusive
The leftist critics are right when they say India's record GDP grow-th is bypassing rural millions. This tragedy arises from massive government failure to provide decent education and infrastructure to every village despite 60 years of gargantuan but wasteful spending. India's cities have been connected to the global economy and have taken off. The villages have not.
One crore micro-capitalists
Chinamma was born a Devadasi but she refused to become a prostitute. She would collect neem seeds in the forests of Raichur district in Karnataka and earn Rs 12 a day. Her life changed completely when she joined a self-help group which helped her with a loan. She makes fertiliser today from the same seeds and employs 10 women. Her sales are Rs 250,000 and profits Rs 50,000. Rising demand from businesses like hers have lifted wages three times for the 12,000 women who collect neem seeds.
A freebie for Narsi
Narsi Narasimhan was looking for a beer in an Arab bazaar in Jerusalem last week when a shopkeeper asked his nationality, confirmed he was Indian, and thrust a drink into his hand, saying, "Free beer... for Indian!" How things have changed, Narasimhan, an Atlanta-based entrepreneur, mused a little later with a group of us wandering the Promised Land. Time was when being Indian was a handicap. Now, in parts of the world, it's a badge of honour, and gets freebies.
India as spiritual hotline
A recent magazine article on 'Branding of Nations' discusses how countries acquire an image. Developed countries have attained gra-nd branding mainly though goods and products, what they call 'cou-ntry of origin' branding. Switzerland is known for its precision watch making, Germany for its well engineered machines, and Japan for its efficient automobiles. Russian vodka, Columbian coffee, and Cuban cigars are great example of specific, product-related branding.
India seeks fair globalisation to check conflicts
United Nations, June 26 (IANS) India has suggested better international economic governance - making globalisation fair, making the Doha Round truly developmental and comprehensively reforming the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - to avoid conflicts over natural resources.
Iran in SAARC: In India's interest but what about Pakistan?
Iran has vigorously moved to get associated with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). A formal application was submitted on March 3 by Iran to the SAARC Secretariat for an Observer Status.
India's 'no' to Pakistan bid to de-link Kashmir and terror
Pakistan may want to de-link violence in Jammu
and Kashmir from the joint anti-terror mechanism with India, but New Delhi
is determined to keep raising "Kashmir-related terror" in official meetings.
Take the peace process forward
The horrifying bomb blasts on the Samjhauta Express heading from Delhi to Lahore on Feb 19 is yet another testimony to the persistence of amoral extremist forces that are working overtime to derail the capricious but ongoing peace process between India and Pakistan.
When India-Pakistan cultural strands make a subcontinental whole
The year was 1976 when India's state-owned broadcaster Doordarshan telecast the Urdu film "Mughal-e-Azam" in its border city Amritsar, creating ripples of excitement in Pakistan with nearby Lahore reporting packed hotels, overbooked flights and empty TV shops as Pakistanis grabbed the chance of seeing the much talked about epic romance.
India wants to get involved in Sri Lankan northeast
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) In a departure from its post-1991 hands off policy, India will tell Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse that it is interested in getting involved in development work in the island's Tamil majority northeast, including in areas held by the Tamil Tigers.
No breakthrough in Pakistan, India aviation talks
Islamabad, Sep 28: Talks between Pakistan and India on air services between the two countries and cooperation in civil aviation concluded Wednesday without any breakthrough, Online news agency reports.
Sixth round of India-China border talks end
Beijing, Sep 28 (IANS) India and China Wednesday concluded the sixth round of talks between their special representatives on the decades-old border question with both sides stressing on an "early settlement" of the issue in a "fair and reasonable" manner.
Lahore-Amritsar bus in November, Nankana Sahib bus soon
New Delhi, Sep 28: In yet another boost to their reconciliation process, India and Pakistan Wednesday decided to start a bus service between Amritsar and Lahore in November and agreed to begin soon another bus to Nankana Sahib - home to some of the holiest Sikh shrines.
Iran says gas deal on with India, seeks end to UN inspections
New Delhi/Tehran, Sep 28 (IANS) Iran Wednesday clarified that a major fuel agreement and pipeline project with India were still "in force" even as Iran's parliament urged the government to halt all UN inspections of its nuclear sites.
Iran 'hurt' at India vote, relations under strain
New Delhi/Tehran, Sep 27: Iranian ambassador S. Z. Yaghoubi Tuesday met Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran here and conveyed Iran's "sense of deep hurt and disappointment" at India's vote against it in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Future of G4 mired in German post-poll politics
New Delhi, Sep 21: India is waiting for the power jostle in Germany to get over as the continuation of the G4 group seeking an expansion of the UN Security Council may depend on who gets to form the government in Berlin.
India to host India-Russia-China meet
New York, Sep 21: India, Russia and China have decided to boost trilateral economic, trade and strategic ties and hold the next meeting of their foreign ministers in New Delhi next year.
Pakistani Kashmir leader moots autonomy in Indian Kashmir
New Delhi, Sep 21: Pakistani Kashmir leader Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan Wednesday said though no satisfactory solution to the Kashmir row was at hand, India could make a beginning by providing autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir.
India allays Bangladesh fears over river-linking
Dhaka, Sep 21: India Wednesday allayed Bangladesh's fears regarding an ambitious river-linking programme, saying the scheme would not include rivers that flowed across international borders.
India, Russia, China back consensus on Iran
New York, Sep 21: In a move sure to incense Washington, India, Russia and China have backed a "consensual approach" on the Iranian nuclear issue and agreed to work together in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that is discussing a US-backed proposal to refer Tehran to the UN Security Council.
Indian team arrives in Pakistan Wednesday for pipeline talks
Islamabad, Sep 5 (IANS) India's petroleum secretary is arriving in Pakistan Wednesday at the head of a four-member delegation for a meeting on the tri-nation gas pipeline project involving Iran, Online news agency reported.
Despite American frown, New Delhi-Tehran ties deepen
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The visit by External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh to Iran has sent a clear message to the world about New Delhi's resolve to deepen its strategic and cultural ties with Tehran despite the American frown.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator in Pakistan for talks
Islamabad, Sep 5 (IANS) Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani began talks with the Pakistani leadership Monday to discuss the looming crisis arising out of the nuclear standoff between Tehran and Washington.
Natwar has a glimpse of old Persia
Shiraz (Iran), Sep 4 (IANS) Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh had a date with immortal spirits of poets, scholars and mystical saints in this medieval Persian city Sunday.
Don't forget Imam Khomeini in Iran
(TEHRAN DIARY)
Tehran, Sep 4 (IANS) Wherever you are, whatever you do in Iran, don't forget that Imam Khomeini, who fathered the Islamic Revolution overthrowing the regime of the Shah, is watching you.
India backs Iran's 'peaceful' nuclear programme
Tehran, Sep 3 (IANS) India Saturday affirmed its support for Iran's "peaceful nuclear energy programme" and expressed hope that all sides will resolve outstanding issues within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA).
India, Iran take energy ties to new heights
Tehran, Sep 3 (IANS) India's energy diplomacy with Iran took a big leap forward Saturday with both countries saying they were ready to clinch by the year-end a deal on a $4 billion gas pipeline that also involves Pakistan.
India, Iran discuss UN reforms
Tehran, Sep 3 (IANS) India Saturday sought Iran's support to the G-4 resolution that seeks the inclusion of India, Japan, Brazil and Germany in an expanded UN Security Council.
Iran, India say gas pipeline deal by year-end
Tehran, Sep 3 (IANS) India and Iran raised their economic ties to a new high Saturday, resolving to clinch by the year-end a framework agreement on setting up a $4 billion tri-nation pipeline that involves Pakistan.
Natwar visit makes media splash in Iran
Tehran, Sep 3 (IANS) Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar's visit has created a media splash in Iran with leading dailies front-paging pictures of the smiling dignitary being received by his counterpart Manuchehr Mottaki.
Hopes soar for Sikhs in Iran
Tehran, Sept 2 (IANS) For the small but influential 500-strong Sikh community here, the visit of Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh here has provided them fresh hope that their longstanding wish list - the right to own property, three-year residency permit and dual nationality - will turn real soon.
India-Iran ties good for entire region: Natwar
Tehran, Sep 2 (IANS) India Friday asserted its commitment to expand strategic and energy cooperation with Iran despite growing American pressure over Tehran's nuclear programme and expressed the hope that the burgeoning relationship "will not only benefit the two countries but the entire region."
Natwar Singh in Tehran
Tehran, Sep 2 (IANS) Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh arrived here Friday afternoon on a three-day visit to talk with the new Iranian leadership and to expand cooperation in the areas of energy, trade and culture.
Natwar Singh heads to Iran on Friday
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh goes to Tehran on a three-day visit Friday to network with the new Iranian leadership and to expand strategic cooperation with a country that has become a crucial pillar for India's energy security and its growing interests in Middle East and Central Asia.
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