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Bonhomie between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Ahmedabad, setting aside formalities to strike a friendly tone were highlighted by the state media on Thursday, with write ups and photos on front pages.
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With his remarks on China making waves, the local administration has restrained the media from going anywhere near the Dalai Lama during his current visit to Arunachal Pradesh. The administration on Monday night announced that the Dalai Lama's visit to the Khinmey Monastery, where he was supposed to consecrate a statue of Guru Padma Sanbhava, has been cancelled. There was no official reason assigned to the cancellation.
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India, China and Malaysia continue to lead with a unique combination of high people skills, favorable business environment and low cost, according to global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney's Global Services Location Index (GSLI).
'Testing is a very good strategy if only symptomatic people are transmitting the disease.' 'Here asymptomatic people, with minimum, trivial symptoms, are transmitting too.' 'Testing, treating, tracing contacts and quarantining them -- yes, it will work up to a certain extent.' 'But more important is physical distancing, hand hygiene, cough etiquette and cocooning, protecting with reverse quarantining the most vulnerable people, senior citizens, people with other major medical problems.' 'To me, that makes much more sense.'
The death toll also saw a record single-day increase of over 350 fatalities to move closer to the 8,500-mark, more than one-third of which have been recorded in 11 days since June 1 -- the day that marked the beginning of a phased exit from most restrictions imposed under a nationwide lockdown with effect from March 25.
'But India, increasingly, is not that far behind, which is a story I never expected to tell.'
Very few today realise that without Brigadier John Dalvi's courage, we would never have known what really happened during those tragic days of October/November 1962, reveals Claude Arpi.
'This virus came in December 2019 and how this virus is going to behave in October and November, we don't know yet.'
The wave of deaths, one-third of which has come from the world's financial capital of New York and neighbouring New Jersey and Connecticut, has had a devastating impact on American economy which has now gone into recession with an unprecedented over 35 million losing their jobs in the last three months.
The road show, designed to showcase India's cultural diversity, saw artistes from several states performing on 28 stages erected by the roadside.
Gandhi said if money is not given in the hands of the poor and small and medium industry, there could be "serious economic damage" in the country.
The compact segment where Sonet will be launched is crowded with the Maruti Vitara and Brezza, which top the sales' list, and a bevy of models from Mahindra & Mahindra apart from Hyundai's offering. But volumes in this are slightly higher than those in the mid-segment, making it attractive, says Surajeet Das Gupta.
From the Syrian civil war to the Ukrainian crisis to the terror unleashed by the dreaded Islamic State, there was no lack of news in 2014. In this five-part series,rediff.com presents a selection of the year's most enduring moments year from around the world.
The car exploded near the embassy in Bishkek, killing its driver and wounding three people.
'As he has no executive track record, so far, he is all talk and hence essentially a braggart and a bigot.' 'That he is described as the 'Trump of the tropics' should give a shorthand summary to what he stands for on issues in general,' points out Ambassador B S Prakash, India's former envoy to Brazil.
General T N Raina was an iconic Indian military leader whose contributions to the nation should be more widely known, notes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
At $2.6 trillion, the Indian economy is currently ranked sixth in the world behind the US, China, Japan, Germany and the UK.
Up to 7,650 people have been killed and nearly 900 students feared buried after a powerful earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter Scale rocked South West China's Sichuan province on Monday. The government rushed its troops to the earthquake-struck Wenchuan County of southwest Sichuan province for disaster relief work, with President Hu Jintao ordering all out effort efforts to help the affected people.
'That way, it will be helpful for India because by April, temperatures will be in the late 30s and early 40s.' 'So, if we are able to sustain these 21 days, and go to that temperature zone, it will be a way of nature protecting us.'
Chinese President Hu Jintao officially launched the Beijing Olympic torch relay on Monday at Tiananmen Square.
'We were lucky, in many ways, that we got the disease late.'
The Indian stock market has been termed as a potential 'baby bull' as the Sensex may continue to advance over next 15 years and is likely to breach its all-time high level of 21,000 during the period, a report says.
'Lhasa is more than the Unesco World Heritage Sites it boasts of. It is more than a gateway to the mighty Himalayas.' 'It is about the warmth of its people: Unsaid, unspoken, but felt everywhere,' discovers Shruti Bajpai.
'This prime minister thinks he knows everything.' 'He has to consult, he has to talk and he has to mobilise the best people, but having seen him function, I have no expectations from him.'
The Olympic torch will make another curtailed relay under tight security before a selected audience in the Indonesian capital on Tuesday.
Obama joked comfortably with the eccentric founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group.
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It was a "bloody Monday" for Chinese stock markets as shares once again nosedived in the sharpest decline since 2007.
"When I look at a product like Zune, or other path-breaking applications like software on demand, I always wonder why these products could not come from India," said Anand Mahindra, vice-chairman and MD, Mahindra & Mahindra.
'It will be a competitive market more than ever due to the layoffs that have happened.'
On Wednesday, the Chinese authorities extended a ban on sales of shares by large shareholders.
UNICEF estimates that almost 16 million children and their families are in urgent need of life-saving support. Since mid-August, there have been at least 1,288 reported deaths.
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