The international football tournament will return to India after an absence of 10 years.
Islamabad refused to take back its citizen deportees and visa over-stayers from America
'China has gone too long as a rogue power, trashing international norms, agreements, and treaties as if they were not the paper they were written on.' 'The ill-advised attack on Ladakh may be the beginning of the end of that nonsense,' advocates Rajeev Srinivasan.
India coach Bob Houghton said the crucial Nehru Cup football match against the West Asian will be a real assessment of his team.
It had signed a joint venture with Reliance Retail to form M&S Reliance India Private Limited in April 2008.
Arvind Kejriwal is the founder of Delhi-based organisation Parivartan
The proposed Foreign Trade Agreement between India and Asean got a boost today as trade ministers of Asean countries agreed to India's proposal for reducing the negative list to 490 items
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'It's pretty likely that Kissinger, Rice et al came bearing gifts (read Trojan Horses) from McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Grumman, Northrop, and all the other Military Industrial Complex stalwarts,' argues Rajeev Srinivasan.
Mankind has presence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Tanzania.
Global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, Accenture has announced a grant of $200,000 to an organisation working for the under-privileged children in developing nations, including India, Nepal, Cambodia and Vietman.
Khalistan Liberation Force chief Harminder Singh 'Mintoo' who along with five others escaped from the high security jail in Nabha on Sunday, was arrested by Punjab Police after he was deported from Thailand in November 2014.
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In the travel advisory, the Health Ministry again asked people to refrain from travelling to China in view of the coronavirus outbreak in its Hubei province and said travellers on return from the neighbouring country could be quarantined.
Asian Development Bank and Reserve Bank on Thursday advocated that India should go in for a free trade agreement with China and five other nations in the Mekong region to sustain high growth.
'By the time the goods that were sent from December onwards reached stores in Europe, they became dead inventory as the stores there were closed by then.' 'Those that were in the warehouse there also became dead inventory. Those that reached the ports there also became dead inventory.' 'And what Tirupur produced in March is still here, and they have also become dead inventory.'
'Being one of the 150 million upper middle class consumers, I can vouch that the average expenses on white goods or clothing are minimal. Indians are not consumerist by nature,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
No one had been caught in the trap until Thursday, when police were informed that the body of the young monk in his saffron-coloured robe was discovered near the bathroom and an autopsy found that he had been electrocuted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited ASEAN leaders to be the chief guests.
At least four Cambodians, including two children, died after eating the meat from a giant turtle. Dozens were hospitalised.
'The US and India are engaged in a dialogue for missile defence. I hope it will allow the Indian government to protect the Indian people from Chinese missiles,' says China expert Richard Fisher.
Modi said the initiatives taken by the East Asia Summit in disaster preparedness and response are truly commendable.
A select 12 matches will also be broadcast in Malayalam via Asianet Plus.
The medals tally at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.
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37-year-old Hassan Al Kontar has finally been granted asylum in Canada where he will begin his new life.
Cambodian police found the 50-year-old Kydd's body on Monday and suspect drug overdose as the cause of death, it said.
By clinging to the past misdeeds of some Islamic rulers, present day Muslims are making reconciliation of communities an impossibility, says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
'It is entirely possible that there are many treasures of our history and our faith buried deep underground,' points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
'It doesn't look as if any sensible, worldly wise, person is in charge in China.' 'If at all anybody is in charge, it can only be a bunch of bumpkins of whom Xi has become a puppet,' observes B S Raghavan, the veteran civil servant.
ICRIER has suggested that the government hasten tax reforms by lowering peak customs duties to ensure export competitiveness of domestic industry.
A 'framework agreement' as a precursor to a free trade arrangement will be signed when the prime minister is in Indonesia next week.