External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh briefed the leaders on the high-profile visits at an hour-long meeting.
India and Pakistan propose to start the rail link between Khokhrapar and Munnabao connecting Sindh and Rajasthan from October 2, 2005, External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh announced on Thursday.
Abbas arrived in New Delhi on Thursday on a two-day visit. This is his first top-level political contact with the Indian leadership after he was elected to the key post, earlier held by Yasser Arafat.
On a six-day official visit at the invitation of President A P J Abdul Kalam, Gayoom and Dr Singh exchanged views on important regional and global issues of mutual concern.
The CCS also discussed the Nuclear Confidence Building Measures with Pakistan.
Responding to questions on Musharraf's remarks on Sarabjeet that he was involved in terrorist acts, he said "we have told them (Pakistan) that he is an Indian national and sentiments are attached to the issue."
"I apologise for the inconvenience", United States astronaut Neil Armstrong told Indira Gandhi when informed that the Indian prime minister had kept awake till 4:30 am to watch him land on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Former Director General of Rajasthan Police Shantanu Kumar died in Jaipur on Wedneday in mysterious circumstances.
Senior leader Oscar Fernandes, who is currently minister without portfolio, could be brought full time to the organisation amid reports that the known loyalist of the party chief could get a key assignment.
The two sides are expected to come out with a joint declaration later in the day.
Unfazed by the attacks on him by the Congress leadership for his book which was sharply critical of Sonia Gandhi, Natwar Singh has decided to write a sequel "which will have many more disclosures".
The senator is expected to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday.
Tang Jiaxuan, State Councillor and former Foreign Minister, will hold wide-ranging discussions with Indian officials.
The Pakistan industry's contention was that by trading in dollars, there is a substantial economic loss due to conversion.
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque conveyed his country's position when he met External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly's session in New York on Saturday.
India, US can discuss major international issues: Natwar Singh
In their first ever 'standalone' trilateral meeting, foreign ministers of India, Russia and China will hold talks in Russia's far-eastern port city of Vladivostok next week on a whole spectrum of issues.
India and China plan to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Panchsheel.
"If I was the foreign minister, I would have had contact with them. I would have gone out of my way and told my intelligence agency to make a contact quietly," former external affairs minister Natwar Singh said.
The Hurriyat leaders are the real representatives of the Kashmiri people and India will have to accede to this fact, the foreign office spokesman said.
External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh on Monday held a meeting with top Indian diplomats from SAARC and ASEAN countries to assess future policy options.
Volcker, former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is quoted as having admitted in a Los Angeles Times interview that he had agreed to change the language of his controversial report
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