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The ties between India and China though are looking very positive with likely visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping to each other's country even as the relationship remains complex due to the unresolved…
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 Claude Arpi  Modern China has several facets. Unfortunately, the most disturbing, the totalitarian one, has come to the fore during the past year. Take the example of Ursula Gauthier, the French correspondent based in Beijing for the…
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The US should press Pakistan to crackdown on LeT without directly intervening, a top US expert has said and warned that another Mumbai-style attack would spoil any efforts for Indo-Pak peace process. Few months back for the first time…
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The early morning terrorist attack on Air Force Base in Pathankot, where two IAF personnel and four attackers were killed, on Saturday comes after an Superintendent of Police and to others were kidnapped, thrashed and their vehicle taken by…
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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of doing away with the requirement of interviews for lower non-gazetted Central Government jobs from 1st January drew accusations of violation of the Model Code of Conduct and attempts at…
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N Janardhan The possible resolution of Syrian and Yemeni conflicts, or otherwise, will determine future relations between the GCC countries and Iran. The hazardous journey of hundreds of thousands of Syrians to Europe epitomised the…
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The recent exposes of several ISI-linked spy rings have brought to light that Pakistan's infamous intelligence agency is floating fake ex-servicemen organisations to lure former forces personnel to ferret "authentic" information about…
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The Union Government is set to roll out the 'free diagnostics' scheme in the New Year. The Health Ministry has written to all states asking them to start providing a basket of essential services for free to patients visiting public…
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Uttam Gupta In a brazen display of 'might is right' in the just concluded World Trade Organisation's (WTO) 10th ministerial meeting at Nairobi, Kenya between 15th-19th December, the developed countries led by the US and the EU literally…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacking Congress and asking the party to take a New Year resolution to allow Parliament to function after a series of stalling exercises for the sake of development is perhaps a stunning example of BJP's…
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