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Built consensus with India, will reach solution at early date, says China

China and India were able to "reduce differences" and build "some consensus" on disengaging troops from friction points to end the standoff in eastern Ladakh and agreed to maintain dialogue to......

China: 'Main Issue Now Is The Patrolling'

'Once we deal with the disengagement, there is the larger issue as both of us have brought a very large number of troops up to the border.''So there is what we call the de-escalation issue, and......

Brahma Chellaney wins Asia Society award

India's leading strategic thinker and analyst, Brahma Chellaney has won the 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his recently published book Water: Asia's New Battleground. Chellaney......

The Global Ambassador Of Indian Music

He was a formidable musician but seemed utterly human, a Peter Pan who wore his genius with deceptive lightness. Sandip Roy remembers Ustad Zakir Hussain. IMAGE: Ustad Zakir Hussain at one of his......

'America Is In For A Period Of Extended Domestic Turmoil'

'Trump's disregard for norms and institutions could prove very costly for America's social fabric.' IMAGE: USA President-elect Donald Trump meets with Republican members of the US House of......

Asia Society leadership award for Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director ofReliance Industries Limited has been awarded the prestigious Asia Society Leadership Award, by the Asia Society, Washington DC. Leo Daly, chairman,......

L N Mittal bags Asia Society 'Leadership Award'

NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi N Mittal has expressed confidence that the fast-growing economies of India and China would have a positive impact on world economy but cautioned the two south Asian giants......

'The Budget was fundamentally boring'

Parag Saxena, founding general partner & CEO, New Silk Road Partners, speaking on the Indian Union Budget 2009 at Asia Society in New...

Despite odds, economists confident of India growth story: WEF study

Most economists expect the global economy to weaken in the coming year amid political and financial volatility, but a large majority of over 90 per cent are confident of moderate or strong growth......

India to be fastest growing economy soon: Ambani

Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd, on Tuesday said that India has traversed a long path from being a Third World County in the 1980s to becoming the world's third most important......

Naseer performs in New York

The brilliant Naseeruddin Shah performed Dastangoi: The Adventures of Amir Hamza with Mahmood Farooqi and Daanish Hussain at the Asia Society New York on Monday. The adventures of Amir Hamza......

Here's how Pakistan's first Oscar-winning film happened

In conversation with Aseem Chhabra, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge discuss the challenges of making a film like Saving Face in a country as complex and......

When Rishi Kapoor wanted a drink...

Two first time directors --- Arjun Gourisaria and Moinak Biswas --- triumphed over the Bengali language works of veterans Aparna Sen (Iti Mrinalini) and Rituparno Ghosh (Noukadubi) with......

Indian films to be screened at NY festival

Dostana, the hit film featuring Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham, did not endear itself to every gay person. Its critics felt it reinforced stereotypes. Yet,the film was invited at last year's I......

Zoya Akhtar: I'm obsessed with people

Director Zoya Akhtar had a series of interviews at the I View film festival at the Asia Society on August 28, where her directorial debut Luck By Chance was screened. But Akhtar sedulously answered......

CWG will be off to a flying start: Krishna

There might have been delays and lapses in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games, but External Affairs Minister S M Krishna says the troubled event will be "off to a flying start" once A R......

Images: New Zealand trounce Ireland

Aaron Redmond hammered 63 from 30 deliveries to help New Zealand crush Ireland by 83 runs in the opening World Cup Super Eights match on Thursday. Ireland, replying to New Zealand's 198......

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