An interview with former foreign secretary and India's ex-ambassador to Russia Kanwal Sibal
The announcement was made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a meeting in Moscow Monday evening with select Russian academics involved in Indian studies.
Hat India invites applications for the Red Hat Scholarships 2006-2007.
India and Russia are planning to hold an unprecedented business summit in February next year to explore ways to boost bilateral trade to $10 billion in the coming three years, Indian ambassador Kanwal Sibal said in Moscow.
Presenting Indiya Sevodnya (India Today) tome, Director of Centre of Indian Studies of the Russian Science Academy Tatiana Shaumyan said it is the fruit of lifetime work of 30 top Russian Indologists.
Kanwal Sibal retires on November 30 this year.
'The separatist resurgence in Balochistan is thwarting Pakistan's plans to build CPEC projects to optimally utilise Balochistan's energy reserves,' points out Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
A special investigation team of the Delhi police on Friday questioned senior journalist Nalini Singh in connection with the murder case of former union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar.
During her talks with Putin in his hometown St. Petersburg, Sonia was accompanied by External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh and Indian Ambassador to Russia Kanwal Sibal.
Twenty years ago, over 50 days in the summer of 1999, the Indian Army fought some of the toughest battles in the annals of military history to evict the Pakistan army from Kargil. The battle to recapture Tiger Hill was a major turning point in the Operation Vijay campaign, points out Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
Singh will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday when defence and energy security cooperation are expected to figure prominently.
Putting behind the post-Pokhran freeze on export of dual use technologies, the US has inked an agreement with India to substantially boost bilateral high technology trade to further consolidate the strategic relationship between the two countries.
'The trajectory of the US-India relationship is very different from that of the US-Pakistan relationship and those trajectories neither meet nor criss-cross each other,' says Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal.
Kamlesh Sharma will be India's next high commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Earlier in the day, India's Ambassador to Russia Kanwal Sibal had said that Moscow had denied visa to a group of young entrepreneurs led by Anil Ambani and Anand Mahindra for a meeting in St. Petersburg.
Pakistan is yet to positively respond to India's offer to restore overflight facilities for Pakistani aircraft, Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar in New Delhi.
'India has asked Pakistan to take certain steps and talks are not possible unless Pakistan convinces India on that,' Sibal said.
A 1966-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, Shashank succeeds Kanwal Sibal, who retired on Sunday after an 18-month stint.
'Landmark developments herald the end of two decades of stagnation in the army's modernisation plans,' notes Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
The agreement stipulates that each country will not knowingly facilitate, consent to or cooperate with efforts by any third country for the extradition, surrender or transfer of each other's nationals to any international tribunal.
The Russian president, who flew in from China, was received at the airport by Minister of State Vasundhara Raje and Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
India shares a good relationship with the US and was not under any pressure to send troops to Iraq, the foreign secretary said.
Kanwal Chaudhry was forced to approach the courts after police refused to act on her complaints.
'The military aim in a future conflict, if it can't be avoided, should be to cause maximum damage to the adversary's war waging capability and capture limited amount of territory as a bargaining counter,' says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
The US deputy secretary of state has a series of high-level meetings scheduled with Indian leaders tomorrow.
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