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It’s modi versus mea on indians freed in china

A tussle played out on Wednesday between Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and the Centre on who helped in the release of 13 Indian diamond merchants serving time in a Chinese prison in Shenzhen city for alleged diamond smuggling and money-laundering.

Oz party votes to lift uranium ban

The burgeoning strategic ties between India and Australia received a further boost with the ruling Labour Party voting to reverse a ban on uranium exports to India during its annual conference in Sydn

Buddhist body in India is China foil

In a declaration that’s unlikely to go down well with China as it strives hard to emerge as a “soft power” in the Buddhist world, the international Buddhist congregation which concluded here Wednesday

China snubbed over Dalai event

It was outrage caused by Beijing’s demands that New Delhi force the cancellation of a four-day Buddhist religious congregation beginning here Sunday, where the Dalai Lama is scheduled to speak, that prompted India to call off talks with China on the setting up of a joint boundary mechanism.

India will chair Indian Ocean panel

As India assumes the chair of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) for the first time in Bengaluru in a few days from now, it will be hoping to infuse some life into a g

Saarc: PM may suggest economic integration

As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heads for the Maldives next week to participate in the 17th Saarc summit, it is expected that he will be suggesting some mechanisms to promote a greater level of regio

Chinese envoy tells a journo to ‘shut up’

It was a “diplomatic incident”, but of a different kind.

India, Nepal sign 3 key pacts

India and Nepal sought to forge what had earlier been described by Nepalese Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai as a “development partnership”, with the two sides signing three pacts, all of which are ex

India, Vietnam to hone strategic ties

When New Delhi rolls out the red carpet for visiting Vietnamese President Truong Tang Sang during his three-day sojourn in the country beginning Tuesday, it’s not without reason.

Vietnam President on India visit next week

It’s a relationship that appears to be going from strength to strength, perhaps to Beijing’s discomfort.

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