If the aim is to become a player with some strategic space of its own, not just in the Indian Ocean region but also in the adjoining region, then greater interaction with China is desirable, even necessary.
The bravado of NDA ministers may have undone the gains made in cross-border security cooperation over the past several years.
"We are considering setting up of a nuclear security Centre of Excellence in China through cooperation with relevant countries in order to play a bigger role in regional nuclear security cooperation," Hu said in his remarks at the Nuclear Security Summit.
The NSE Nifty is at 5,340 down 22 points. Inspite of two big negative news looming in the market, the index lost around 100 points,owing to the huge FII inflow which kept the sentiments positive.
Securities Exchange Board of India chairman C B Bhave, and Insurance Regulatory Authority of India chief J Harinarayan had separate meetings with finance secretary Ashok Chawla on Monday over the ongoing tussle between the two regulators over equity-linked insurance schemes.
What the new defence minister does with the Rafale fighter jet deal will decide if India wants to build genuine, long-term defence capability through an indigenous product that slashes life-cycle costs, or opt for glitzy signing ceremony with foreign vendors that would please the public, says Ajai Shukla.
Gold price is likely to remain sideways this week due to uncertainty in global economy. The metal, of late, has started losing its status as safe haven investment avenue at the time of global economic crisis.
Bill Gates is said to be considering investing personal assets worth several hundreds of billions of yen in developing the new type of reactor.
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Postponement of Sino-India border talks between Special Representatives notwithstanding, India on Tuesday said its high-level defence dialogue with China would take place next month as planned earlier.
Expressing concern over growing dangerous trends in Pakistan, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal on Sunday said that its political leadership should unite to fight the menace of terrorism.
It is a well known fact that Dawood Ibrahim is a key aide of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the finances of outfit are largely managed by him. Indian intelligence agencies say that there has been a lot of activity concerning Dawood and the Lashkar in the past couple of months, which also includes sending in huge consignments of arms and ammunition into India.
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International spot gold, which guides the domestic market, has continued its upwards trend in recent weeks. Bullion remains boosted by its safe haven status amidst the uncertain economic outlook.
Rallying for the third day in a row, the local currency broke the psychological 46-mark amid tepid activities in stock markets.
"If we are not developing AMD, then there's a threat that when our partners create an umbrella over themselves to protect them against our offensive systems, they might feel completely safe. And that might mean that our partners will feel they can do anything they want -- the level of aggression in politics and economics will rise right away. The balance will be lost," Putin explained.
Asserting that the United States is trying to make its relationship work with Pakistan, the Obama Administration's point man for Afghanistan and Pakistan has said that it is important both the countries recognise that terrorism, including Haqqani Network, is a threat to both of them.
Following the 11.4 per cent decline in the dollar value of the rupee over barely a quarter, the sharp slump of last week has further complicated an already tricky situation for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
BSE Oil & Gas index declined by almost 2.5% followed by counters like Auto, Capital Goods, PSU and Metal, all plunging by almost 2% each. Apart from IT and FMCG, all the major BSE sectoral indices are trading in red zone.
The Indian currency has depreciated 6.86 per cent since April.
Gold touched a all-time high of at Rs 18,550 per 10 gm in the bullion market on Thursday, then slipped a tad to end at Rs 18,210. Pure gold (99.9 purity), however, closed unchanged at at Rs 18,310 per 10 gm.
India and France on Thursday concluded negotiations on the Short Range Surface to Air Missile nearly worth of $6 billion during the talks between French President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who also said talks on $10-billion deal for Rafale fighter aircraft are "progressing well".
The four-day tour, beginning September 21, includes World Bank-International Monetary Fund meetings, as well as interactions with investors.
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The Reserve Bank of India may move forward to accumulating more gold as the yellow metal is expected to shine in the years to come. "A weaker dollar could diminish the value of India's foreign exchange reserves and hence this could lead to further accumulation of gold by the RBI. This move will help India's central bank to hedge its downside risk on the foreign exchange reserves front," Angel Commodities Broking analyst Amar Singh said.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand took an early lead by winning the first game of the rapid match against former world champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in Bastia, France on Sunday.
The country's most valued company Reliance Industries on Thursday reported 6.41 per cent drop in its stand-alone profit at Rs 3,852 crore (Rs 38.52 billion) for the second quarter of the current fiscal.The total income rose 5.88 per cent to Rs 47,476 crore (Rs 474.76 billion) during the quarter from Rs 44,839 crore (Rs 448.39 billion) in the corresponding period a year ago, RIL said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Talking tough on terror in the backdrop of tension on the Indo-Pak border, India told United Nations Security Council that nations using terror as an "instrument of state policy" are "short-sighted" and have invariably themselves suffered immensely from the "Frankenstein monster."
To begin, the Budget has no doubt attempted to address uncertainty.
'My party men discouraged me from visiting Kaliachak because all kind of people were part of the mob and they feared that someone could shoot at me.' 'Criminals were involved in burning the police station and then attacking Baliadanga to give it a communal colour.'
It's been just nine months since the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) gave its nod to mobile trading. But the trend has caught up with trades through uniform resource locator (URL)- and wireless application protocol-based systems.
Paramilitary troops were deployed in a village on Sunday, in Pakistan's Punjab province where 10 people were killed in violence between Muslims and Christians over the alleged desecration of Quran.Pakistan Rangers personnel took up positions in and around Azafi Abadi village, also known as Koriaan, where the situation remained tense, a day after it witnessed communal clashes.
The wholesale price inflation, decelerated faster than expected, to ease to an eight-month low of 5.05 percent in January.
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The interrogation report on Mohammad Madni mentions them and now the Union government has also declared it as a terror outfit. The outfit in question are the Communist Party of India-Maoists who have unleashed a reign of terror in West Bengal.
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Claude Arpi gives a fascinating firsthand account of the Dalai Lama's arrival in Tawang in March 1959 and explains why he will once again receive a grand welcome, whether Beijing likes it or not.
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