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1. H.E. Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand, paid a State visit to India from January 24-26, 2012 as the Chief Guest for India`s Republic Day celebrations. On her first visit to India, at the invitation of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, she was accompanied by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Defence, [...]
For almost a decade now, China has followed a mercantilist growth strategy, which has involved maintaining a deliberately cheap exchange rate to boost exports and growth. Crucial to this policy has been China’s choice to keep the economy relatively closed to foreign financial flows. Had it not done so, foreign capital chasing the high returns in China would have put [...]
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) Sitting hunched with his face cupped in his hands, 42-year-old Shobhamal dreads going back to Pakistan’s Sindh province where he has earned the status of a pariah and ‘bore the brunt of being a non-Muslim’. A group of 146 Pakistani Hindus took refuge at capital’s Majnu ka Tilla Sep 8 after crossing the Attari border [...]
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Thronging mosques, sacrificing goats, greeting friends and rustling up delicacies, millions of Indian Muslims celebrated Eid-ul-Zuha Monday. The day passed off peacefully, barring in Jammu and Kashmir where clashes broke out between stone pelting youths and security personnel. What reigned supreme was the spirit of sacrifice. Be it Delhi or Mumbai, Kerala or Uttar Pradesh, [...]
The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry and Textiles Shri Anand Sharma has expressed confidence that India China are on course to achieve the bilateral trade target of US$ 100 billion by 2015. Trade between India and China has seen exponential growth in the last few years. As per the trade statistics of DGCI&S the total trade volume has gone up [...]
EXPORTS (including re-exports) India’s exports during September, 2011 were valued at US $ 24821.59 million (Rs.118233.94 crore) which was 36.36 per cent higher in Dollar terms (41.01 per cent higher in Rupee terms) than the level of US $ 18203.53 million (Rs. 83848.35) during September, 2010. Cumulative value of exports for the period April-September 2011 -12 was US $ 160048.51 million (Rs 723431.51 crore) [...]
Following is the text of the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s opening statement at the plenary session of the IBSA Summit, Pretoria: “At the outset I would like to express my profound gratitude to President Jacob Zuma, the Government and the people of South Africa for making excellent arrangements for the 5th IBSA Summit. I would also like to thank [...]
The President of the Republic of South Africa, H.E. Mr. Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, the Prime Minister of the Republic of India, H.E. Dr. Manmohan Singh, and the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, H.E. Ms. Dilma Rousseff (hereinafter referred to as “the Leaders”) met at the Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, on 18 October 2011 for [...]
A comprehensive Social Security Agreement (SSA) was signed by the Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Civil Aviation, Shri Vayalar Ravi and the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of Germany, Dr. Ursula von der Leyen in Berlin. The Agreement which subsume the earlier Indo-German agreement on Social Security on 8th October 2008 will enhance cooperation on social security [...]
~ Vietnamese government’s 10 year modernization policy has opened up a huge demand for products and services in which India businesses have expertise ~ President and Deputy PM emphasized on the need to strengthen strategic partnership between the two countries for mutual profit “Beginning 2010, Vietnam has implemented a 10 year long modernization policy which has thrown open theneed [...]
India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will join hands to commemorate 25 years of their partnership at a forum that will discuss Asia’s remarkable economic growth and the challenges it still has to overcome to realize its full potential. Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee and ADB President Mr. Haruhiko Kuroda will address the Eminent Persons’ Forum that will be [...]
India and Afghanistan today entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for implementation of a twinning arrangement for public sector capacity development in Afghanistan. Under it both the countries will co-operate in the field of public sector capacity development in accordance with the applicable domestic law in force in the respective countries in which the activities are undertaken. The MoU was [...]
CII and the Ministry of MSME come together for the eighth edition of the India Global Summit on MSMEs CII emphasises globalisation of MSMEs through the India Global Summit on MSMEs The India Global Summit on MSMEs, the “Flagship Global MSME event” will be organised by CII jointly with the Ministry of MSME. The 2011 edition of the India Global [...]
Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Minister of State for Science and Technology, Earth Sciences and Planning said that India remains committed to a fair and non-discriminatory non proliferation regime and expressed appreciation for Japan’s support to India in the Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) for its civil nuclear energy programme. During the bilateral meeting with the Foreign Minister of Japan, Mr. Koichiro Gemba [...]
In a spirit of a cooperation and understanding, India and Russia held their annual meeting to review the defence ties in Moscow on Tuesday (04 Oct 2011) and expressed ‘readiness to take all necessary measures to further expand the cooperation on a mutually beneficial basis’. In a Protocol signed after the Eleventh meeting of the India-Russia Inter-governmental Commission on Military [...]
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh has written a letter to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms. Jayalalithaa on Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant issue. Following is the text of the Prime Minister’s letter: “Please refer to your letter dated 19 September, 2011 regarding the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. I received your letter on the eve of my departure for [...]
Ms.Nirupama Rao, India’s Ambassador to the United States urged a renewed focus on value-creation in the US-India economic and commercial relationship. Speaking at an exclusive CII session on ‘’US-India Economic and Commercial Partnership: Two-Way Job Creation’, held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ambassador Rao said that it is important to look at the distance travelled by India and [...]
India and Thailand will collaborate in whether forecasting and Tsunami Warning System.This was discussed between Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Minister of State for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Planning and the Mr. Suraswadi Plodprasop, Minister for Science and Technology, Thailand in a meeting at Tokyo today. Both the Ministers are attending the 8th Annual Meeting of STS Forum on “Science [...]
Every new initiative to improve India-Pakistan relations generates a faint stirring of hope. If anything, it underlines the deep desire for peace between the people of the two countries. If the expectations are higher this time, the reason cannot but be what has been described as the glam quotient of the photogenic new Pakistani foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar. That [...]
India and United Kingdom entered into a letter of arrangement today to pursue collaborative Defence R&D Cooperation with UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and facilitate making best use of respective research and technology development capability through joint projects, collaborative research and industry and academia participation. The LOA was signed in London by Dr VK Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to [...]
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