After all the drama that preceded the book launch of former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's book launch, the discussion that ensued on the book the same evening turned out to be a fiasco. Here's why
The dinner was followed by a meeting in which nearly two dozen allies facilitated Prime Minister Modi.
The Prime Minister, who advanced his departure to avoid Delhi fog, will utilise the time for making a visit to the Olympic games stadium and a meeting with Indian businessmen for a briefing on issues that would come up during his discussions with the Chinese leadership on the economic side.
The Union Government's decision to ban futures trading in rubber, soya oil, potato and chana for four months, in a bid to tame spiralling inflation, is unfortunate and may hit market sentiments badly, industry players said.The four commodities have a combined daily turnover of about Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion) on the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. and the National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange Ltd., the nation's biggest bourses.
Infosys chief Vishal Sikka also said that demonetisation has shown to the world that Indians are ready to adopt new technology disruptions.
Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo spoke to India's National Security Adviser M K Narayanan over phone and briefed him on the 'violent crimes' in Lhasa and 'expounded' China's stance on and concerns over the Tibet issue. Narayanan stated that Tibet was part of the Chinese territory and that India does not allow Tibetans to conduct 'anti-China political activities' in the country, official Xinhua news agency said.
'China any day would prefer to team up with India and dump Pakistan once the resolution of the border dispute becomes an accomplished fact.'
Ruling out joining any political party, yoga guru Ramdev, who shared the dais with Sangh Parivar leaders in Panipat recently, insisted he had "nothing to do with the BJP".
With India's political wheel turning full circle this year, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will negotiate from an expanding diplomatic space, writes Ajai Shukla
But minutes after the amendment was adopted, senior male leaders were heard making scathing comments on the so-called progressive step of the party.
The seventh Tibet Work Forum was held in Beijing on August 28 and 29. Delhi should be deeply concerned, at a time India faces a precarious situation in Ladakh, because the TWF also defines China's western border policies, observes Claude Arpi.
The outspoken Lok Sabha member from Patna Sahib, in a no-holds-barred assault on the Modi government, said its ministers were a "bunch of sycophants" 90 per cent of whom were hardly known to people.
Mayawati cold-shoulders Akhilesh Das at a felicitation ceremony held in Lucknow on Tuesday to mark the completion of her first year in office.
Senior Janata Dal-United leader Shivanand Tiwari on Tuesday created flutters by praising Narendra Modi at the Janata Dal-United convention in Rajgir, triggering spontaneous protests from the party workers.
Targeting 55 million farmers under the fold of IFFCO, telecom major Bharti Airtel on Friday announced a joint venture with it, in which the fertiliser cooperative holds majority stake.
The submission was vehemently opposed by senior advocate C S Vaidyanathan, representing deity 'Ram Lalla', who said: "This is totally unwarranted".
Amid repeated calls to party workers to peacefully hold the indefinite dharna over the Singur land issue, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said her party did not want the Tatas to leave, but to restrict its small car factory in Singur to 600 acres.
She was accused of leaving the site of accident without bothering about the victims.
The interactive vocabulary game allows a player 20 grains of rice for each correct answer. The money raised through advertising is used to underwrite rice donations. Thus it allows children simultaneously to bolster their vocabularies and help feed world's hungry children. With between 3 lakh and 5 lakh people playing it daily, it has generated 21 billion grains of rice for WFP.
The 36 new ministers included 10 cabinet and four ministers of state (MoS) of the NCP, eight Cabinet and four MoS of the Sena, and eight Cabinet and two MoS of the Congress.
The Indian Mujahideen wanted to kill Narendra Modi before he reached the venue of his Patna rally but aborted the plan because of the thick security cover, Vicky Nanjappa reports
China also welcomed the recent statement made by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Bangkok.
Setting aside their bitterness, both within and outside Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi shook hands at a function to felicitate NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, who turned 75 on Thursday.
'A close relationship between India Inc and the government cannot help the BJP win elections.' 'While Opposition parties may feel good about Mr Bajaj criticising the Modi regime, the BJP should be seeing the indictment as a political boon,' says A K Bhattacharya.
Continuing to mount pressure on the government over the Telangana Bill, pro and anti-statehood Congress leaders are preparing to stage separate sit-ins in New Delhi on Wednesday when the special session of the Parliament starts.
India's Davis Cup captain Leander Paes admitted there are egos to be handled in the team but expressed confidence that his boys will come out trumps in the match against Japan.
'There is absolutely no reason for India and China to even contemplate a conflict! Yes, but we are rivals.' says National Security Adviser M K Narayanan.
Governor E S L Narasimhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the 46-year-old leader, whose party emerged victorious in 151 seats in the 175-member strong state assembly.
As a part of its Tox Tech campaign, Greenpeace in 2005 issued a list of demands on Wipro, including introduction of a take-back policy, recycling and a policy for phaseout of hazardous materials.
"The message of the Friendship Year has been that our millennium friendship needs to be actively harnessed for realising the full potential of our bilateral relations."
Serena and Venus Williams, top seed Jelena Jankovic and fourth seed Patty Schnyder have received first round byes in the tournament, which gets underway on Monday.
Three guys stood out at the swearing-in ceremony of Deve Gowda's son, says Sudhir Bisht.
Indian Ambassador to China Nirupama Rao and her Chinese counterpart in India, San Yu Si, are among the 19 delegates who will assist the special representatives in the talks.
This round of negotiations takes place three months after the last meeting of the special representatives in New Delhi indicating speeding up of efforts to resolve the boundary dispute.
BCCI president Sharad Pawar says he decided to play down the prize distribution incident because the Indian board has an extremely good relationship with the ACB.
Mehdele, 71, has often made headlines with her unconventional, controversial remarks.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya had earlier decided to hold a meeting in Singur on February 15.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on a three-day visit to India.
Amid raging Lalitgate row, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Friday cancelled her visit to Punjab where she would have come face-to-face with Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah for the first time since the damaging revelations.
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