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Tue, 04/06/2010 - 15:25 by Ishita Sood
On a two-day visit to India, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner highlighted the importance of new economic and financial partnership between the two countries.
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Thu, 07/02/2009 - 13:15 by preet_20
New Delhi, July 2: The Indian government, only days away from presenting the budget, sharply hiked state-set gasoline and diesel prices effective Thursday.
Gasoline prices went up by 4 rupees, or about 8 U.S. cents, a liter and diesel by 2 rupees, or about 4 U.S. cents, a liter, the Press Trust of India reported. There are about 3.8 liters in a U.S. gallon.
After the increase, gasoline will cost about 93 U.S. cents a liter and diesel about 69 U.S. cents a liter in some major cities.
The government, sensitive to the needs of the common people, did not change the prices of kerosene and cooking gas, the staple of the poor and middle class people.
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Fri, 06/26/2009 - 11:56 by preet_20
Islamabad, June 26: Pakistan seriously believes that composite dialogue is in the interest of both India and Pakistan, foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit said here Thursday.
"Talks are unavoidable for durable peace and prosperity in the region," Basit said at a weekly press briefing.
India halted the dialogue process with Pakistan following the Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008, in which at least 170 people were killed and 300 others wounded.
Basit said Pakistan is proceeding in the matter of Mumbai attacks effectively and methodically.
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Fri, 06/26/2009 - 10:35 by preet_20
Washington, June 26: With the India-US civil nuclear deal establishing a new level of trust between the two countries, New Delhi and Washington are poised to become "global partners" to help shape the 21st century, says a senior US official.
The recent visit of Undersecretary of State William Burns to India had paved the way for the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to visit "and underscores our commitment to an expanded partnership with India," Robert O. Blake, Jr, the new US pointman for South Asia, told a panel of the House of Representatives Thursday.
President Barack Obama and Clinton "have both expressed a deep commitment to building stronger ties with India, a commitment based on mutual respect and mutual interests," Blake, the new assistant secretary of state for south and central Asian affairs, noted.
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Fri, 06/26/2009 - 10:32 by preet_20
Washington, June 26: The US has said it will support continuing dialogue between India and Pakistan them to find joint solutions to counter terrorism and to promote regional stability, but leave it to them how to go about it.
"We will also continue to support dialogue between Indian and Pakistani leaders," Robert O. Blake, Jr, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, told a panel of the House of Representatives Thursday.
"The timing, scope, and content of any such dialogue are strictly matters for Pakistani and Indian leaders to decide."
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Thu, 06/25/2009 - 15:34 by preet_20
Singapore, June 25: At a time when racial attacks against Indian students in Australia have attracted comments from the top leadership in both countries, Mizoram Chief Minister Pu Lalthanhawla Thursday said he too was a victim of racism - but in India.
Speaking at a conference on water at the Singapore International Water Week, the chief minister said: "In India, people ask me if I am an Indian."
"When I go south, people ask me such questions. They ask me if I am from Nepal or elsewhere. They forget that the northeast is part of India. I have told many that see, I am an Indian like you," Lalthanhawla said.
"I am a victim of racism," he said. Indians consist of three races - "Dravidians, Aryans and we in the northeast," Lalthanhawla said.
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Thu, 06/25/2009 - 10:11 by preet_20
Islamabad, June 25: Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik is here to help finalise the dates and the agenda for the forthcoming India-Pakistan talks, a media report said Thursday.
Malik, who met Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon in New Delhi Tuesday to decide on the dates for the proposed meeting of the foreign secretaries of the two countries, has arrived here Wednesday to hold consensus regarding the talks, Online news agency reported quoting Pakistan's foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit.
According to Basit, a schedule and agenda for the proposed talks are yet to be discussed.
Sources have informed that the diplomat would also attend an important meeting in the foreign ministry, where he would debate the issue of forthcoming talks.
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Wed, 06/24/2009 - 15:59 by preet_20
Canberra, June 24: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Wednesday said that he would do "everything possible to maximise security" and step up safety measures for international students following a wave of savage attacks on Indian students that have caused an outrage.
"Any assault against any person is one assault too many. I take it (attacks) seriously and have discussed with (Indian) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on this. We will work our way through this with friends in the Indian community," Rudd said in an interaction with a visiting delegation of Indian journalists in his spacious office in parliament.
"We will do everything to maximise security."
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Tue, 06/23/2009 - 13:43 by preet_20
Islamabad, June 23: Will the Pakistani and Indian foreign secretaries meet on the sidelines of the G8 summit beginning in Trieste, Italy, Thursday?
A media report Tuesday suggested this could be possible.
"Hectic efforts are continuing for setting up a date and venue for a meeting between Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and his Indian counterpart Shivshankar Menon before the six-day Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, starting on July 11," Mariana Baabar wrote in The News.
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Tue, 06/23/2009 - 12:12 by preet_20
Dhaka, June 23: Bangladesh's main opposition leader Khaleda Zia has written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that India should stop building the Tipaimukh dam in its north-eastern region.
The Tipaimukh dam on the Barak river is in India's Manipur state.
Zia dispatched the letter Monday, The Daily Star newspaper said. The letter was sent a day after India said that it had 'consulted' Bangladesh on the project and would not do anything to harm the environment of the region.
Details of Zia's letter to Singh were not released. The two last met in March 2006, when Zia was the Bangladesh prime minister.
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Sun, 06/21/2009 - 10:12 by preet_20
Washington, June 21: President Barack Obama would like India and Pakistan to have a dialogue to resolve their differences, but the US cannot dictate how they should go about it or mediate in the process.
"I believe that there are opportunities, maybe not starting with Kashmir but starting with other issues, that Pakistan and India can be in a dialogue together and over time to try to reduce tensions and find areas of common interest," Obama told Pakistan's Dawn group in an interview published Sunday.
"And we want to be helpful in that process, but I don't think it's appropriate for us to be the mediators in that process," he said according to the transcript. "I think that this is something that the Pakistanis and Indians can take leadership on."
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Fri, 06/19/2009 - 10:21 by preet_20
Washington, June 19: India's Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma is returning home confident that President Barack Obama and his administration attach enormous significance in engaging India and wish to take their relationship forward.
"I have no doubt in my mind that President Obama and his administration attach enormous significance in engaging India," he told a press conference here Thursday at the end of a three-day visit.
The first cabinet minister to visit the US after the Congress Party led coalition was voted back to power in India, Sharma met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, US Trade Representative Ronald Kirk as also legislators and business leaders during his stay.
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