After six years of painstaking talks, the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement will be signed which will eliminate duties on 80 per cent of goods traded between the two over the next eight years. Commerce minister Anand Sharma, who is in Bangkok to sign the pact, said the agreement is well balanced and is in harmony with the India's Look East Policy.
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Bhubaneswar airport too bracing itself for emergency and contingency plans have been drawn up.
The new service will travel through 18 countries and each bus will accommodate 20 passengers.
The Centre's interlocutor for the Naga peace process, K Padmanabhaiah, is holding talks with National Socialist Council of Nagalim (I-M) in Bangkok for the second time since the Manmohan Singh government took over.
World No 1 Rafael Nadal will play for the Mumbai team, which will also have India's doubles stars Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna, in the inaugural International Tennis Premier League (ITPL) according to the players' draft released by the organisers, in Dubai on Sunday.
A series of blasts rocked Thailand, including two famous tourist spots popular with foreigners, within 12 hours, killing four persons and injuring several others.
Thailand's embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday rejected opposition's two-day ultimatum to quit, saying she is willing to do "anything" to end spiralling violence but cannot accept the unconstitutional demand to hand over power to an unelected council.
Top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi went down fighting in straight sets to third seeded Russian pair of Michail Elgin and Alexandre Kudryavtsev in the semi-final of the LTAT-SAT Bangkok Open ATP Challenger in Bangkok on Saturday.
The letter was sent as an early warning of what was then widely being perceived as a plunder of national resources.
Qureshi said the Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad had been informed of Pakistan's decision to not allow prime minister's Modi's special Air India One aircraft to fly over the country.
Pankaj Advani became the first Indian cueist to win a medal at the prestigious Sangsom 6 Red Snooker World Championship after taking the bronze following his semi-final loss to Chinese Ding Junhui, in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday.
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In his opening remarks at a ministerial meeting in Tokyo of the Quadrilateral coalition, also known as 'Quad', External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India remained committed to a rules-based world order, respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, and peaceful resolution of disputes.
Slym, 51, died after falling from a high floor of the hotel in Yannawa district, Bangkok.
Padmanathan, who allegedly financed the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, is wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
India's national carrier Air India on Thursday announced that it would convert the India-China via Bangkok flights into direct services that would cut travel time from March 30.The flights to India would be on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The travel time from Shanghai to Delhi would be around six hours and to Mumbai about nine hours.
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For FY21, CSB is looking at growth of around 25 per cent and is confident of doubling it in two years. And it is also exploring options to acquire a mid-size bank with a good client base and branches in the north to acquire an all-India presence.
For the first time, consumers, including those at the so-called bottom of the pyramid, are monetising gold by taking loans from banks, offering the yellow metal as collateral, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
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Underworld don Chhota Rajan was on Saturday sent to Central Bureau of Investigation custody by a court, a day after he was brought from Indonesian city of Bali.
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Akhil Kumar capped a remarkable comeback from a career-threatening injury lay-off to become the second Indian boxer to qualify for Beijing Olympics through the Asian qualifying tournament in Bangkok, on Friday. The 27-year-old bantamweight pugilist out-pointed his People's Republic of Korea opponent Ryom Chol Jin in a semi-final bout.
A prominent pro-government leader was on Wednesday shot and injured in northeastern Thailand, fuelling tensions in the deeply divided country as defiant opposition supporters stepped up their protest to oust Premier Yingluck Shinawatra despite emergency rule imposed in the capital.
Mumbai and Delhi comes 31st and 34th respectively.
'It seems a wiser decision to pull out at the right moment than regret after joining the pact,' explains Dr Rahul Mishra.
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Kumaran Padmanathan, who allegedly financed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, was reported to have been detained in Thailand earlier this week.
PK Banerjee was captain of the Indian team that last played the Olympics in Rome 1960. He retired as a player in 1967 after being laid low by recurring injuries. But then went on accumulate a staggering 54 trophies as a coach.
'India should not be taken by surprise if the Biden administration seeks China's cooperation at some point,' alerts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
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Lakdawala was apprehended by Mumbai Crime Branch's anti-extortion cell team at the International Airport. He once worked for underworld don Dawood Ibrahim before forming his own gang.
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The British home secretary has granted permission for jeweller Nirav Modi's extradition to India. During their arguments in a London court, his lawyers claimed Modi suffers from mental illness and is a suicide risk if he was sent to Mumbai's Arthur Road jail. A fascinating excerpt from Danish Khan and Ruhi Khan's Escaped: True Stories Of Indian Fugitives In London.
AirAsia has rolled out fares as low as Rs 3,399 for a Visakhapatnam-Kuala Lumpur.
Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu was the only bright spot on a dismal day for Indian badminton as she progressed to the quarter-finals with a straight-game win at the US $350,000 Thailand Open World Super 500 tournament in Bangkok on Thursday.
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