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ASEAN: PM Modi moots 12-point proposal for Indo-ASEAN trade, connectivity

September 7, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday presented a 12-point proposal to expand cooperation between India and 10-nation ASEAN in a range of areas such as connectivity, trade, and digital transformation and called for building a rules-based post-COVID world order. The establishment of a multi-modal connectivity and economic corridor linking South East […]

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PM Modi: “ASEAN central pillar in India’s Act East policy”

September 7, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the Association for South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the central pillar of India’s “Act East Policy.” Addressing the 20th ASEAN-India Summit as co-chair in Jakarta, Indonesia, he said New Delhi supports ASEAN’s outlook on the Indo-Pacific. “While our partnership enters its fourth decade, […]

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G-20: China has the option to be a “spoiler” to the Summit, remarks the US

September 6, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: True to its customary behavior to grab headlines, China is blowing hot and cold on the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit India is hosting in the national capital on September 9 and 10. While President Xi Jinping is not attending the Summit, and Beijing has questioned host India using a […]

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G-20: 27-ft tall Nataraja Statue to be a testament to India’s artistry, says PM Modi

September 6, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The magnificent, 27-feet tall statue of Lord Nataraja, installed at Bharat Mandapam, the convention center of the key G-20 Summit meetings later this week, will showcase India’s age-old artistry, culture and tradition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday. He was responding on X (formerly Twitter) to a post by […]

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Roving Periscope: Xi, Putin missing, Biden Covid-careful, PM Modi to hold G-20 fort

September 6, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China giving it a miss, and their US counterpart Joe Biden wearing a mask and observing COVID-19 protocols, host India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi would hold the fort, and, maybe do some tight-rope walking, during the much-awaited two-day G-20 Summit […]

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Roving Periscope: After India and 4 others, Russia also rejects China’s cartographic claims

September 5, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Trust China to publish new official maps each year claiming other’s territories, take two steps forward and one backward—meaning one step forward at a time—keep the claims frozen and use them in the future for raising more claims. This is what the Dragon has been doing for centuries and expanded […]

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Economy: India has raised G-20’s stature, says Maruti Suzuki chief Bhargava

September 5, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As India prepares to host the 18th Summit of the Group of 20 (G-20) on September 9 and 10, the head of the South Asian country’s largest carmaker said on Tuesday the nation has raised the stature of this bloc, the intergovernmental forum of 19 countries and the European Union. […]

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Invasion of Ukraine: With renewed ‘grain deal’ Russia tries a face-saver

September 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After relentlessly bombing Ukraine for nearly 18 months, with no signs of victory or even a ceasefire, Russia now seems to be trying to save its face, increasingly isolated as the former superpower finds itself in the international arena and dependent on an unreliable China and even North Korea. That […]

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G-20 Summit: With Putin and Xi abstaining, the Modi-Biden duo to steal the show next week

September 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Would the Group of 20 (G-20) be eventually overshadowed by the G-7, and become ‘irrelevant’ just like the erstwhile Non-Alignment Movement (NAM), the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), and the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)? Will the Global South, formerly the “Third […]

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Superweapon: Russia launches, deploys ‘deadliest’ Satan II ICBM

September 2, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nations facing multiple crises usually flex muscles to power up their people into xenophobic frenzy. Russia has done exactly that when it launched and deployed what it called the “deadliest weapon.” Losing international credibility and prestige, an isolated President Vladimir Putin’s Russia blasted off the nuclear-capable “Satan II” Inter-Continental Ballistic […]