Japan grants $900 mn concessional loan to India
'Some aspects of China's relations with Pakistan, including their nexus in nuclear and missile proliferation, however, continue to cause serious concern in India,' the external affairs minister said.
In a bid to further boost the growing bilateral trade, Sri Lanka is seeking to upgrade its free trade agreement with India to include services and investments, officials said in Colombo.
Making it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party is no mood to buckle under pressure from the Janata Dal-Secular, a senior BJP leader made it clear that he will not hold talks with JD-S supremo H D Deve Gowda.
He acknowledged that the peace process had found a large number of supporters among the public in both countries, which works to assure that the process would remain sustainable.
India and Bangladesh had decided to start the service during the Joint Economic Commission meeting in Dhaka.
Yashwant Sinha said the government's decision came after taking into account the popular response in India to the Noor Fatima case.
The External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said on Tuesday that trade and economic cooperation has now become an important part of India's foreign policy and the country is now in a position to increase its investments abroad.
The external affairs minister said, 'It will be very good if Pakistan stops cross-border terrorism.'
During wide-ranging discussions with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his deputy Alexei Kudrin, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha sought Moscow's co-operation in addressing three major areas of concern.
Sinha said Islamabad needs to stop cross-border terrorism for an Indo-Pak dialogue to be resumed.
Peace moves between India and Pakistan are expected to be the highlight of their talks.
He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Vajpayee and his deputy Advani later in the day.
'We are seeing an era where only what Modi wishes is going to happen.' 'A clear message has now been sent to others that if this fate could befall on Nitin Gadkari, then just think what could happen to lesser mortals.'
A fresh political war of words erupted on Tuesday over the Rafale issue as the Bharatiya Janata Party accused the Congress leadership of corruption citing claims of a French media report on 'commissions' being paid during the United Progressive Alliance rule and said the Indian National Congress should be renamed 'I Need Commission' party.
It was reacting to External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha's reported remarks that India has better case for a pre-emptive strike against Pakistan than the US had against Iraq.
The party is likely to table a privilege motion against Manmohan Singh.
India has agreed to increase cooperation in energy and transport with Myanmar, where India is keen to counter growing influence from China.\n\n
Sinha, who flew to Mumbai late on Saturday evening after attending a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security, will travel to New York on Sunday morning before moving to Washington.
There is now a recognition of the contribution made by the diaspora and the role it can play in advancing India's interests, he said.
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