NEW DELHI, September 4, 2012 (PTI) Defence Ministers of India and China on Tuesday decided on resuming military exercises that were stalled from 2010 during their delegation-level talks. Defence Minister A.K. Antony will be visiting China next year. This was announced after he had a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Gen Liang Guanglie, who is the first to visit India in eight years. Gen Liang is in India at a time when the two Asian giants are competing vigourously to gain a ...
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September 3, 2012 The World Bank has joined the chorus warning the world of an impending food crisis with damaging food price inflation. In its late-August edition of its Food Price Watch the Bank reported that global prices for food as reflected by its Food Price Index rose 10 per cent in July 2012 alone. The prices of staples such as corn and soya bean were at an all-time high that month, with the increase in corn prices amounting to 25 per cent and that in soya bean to 17 per cent over a ...
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BANGALORE, September 3, 2012 (PTI) The openers gave a rollicking start to India’s chase before departing in quick succession, as the hosts reached 88 for two at lunch aiming to overhaul a target of 261 on the fourth day of the second and final Test against New Zealand on Monday. Virender Sehwag (38) and Gautam Gambhir (34) plundered the Kiwi attack to give a perfect start to India’s chase with their entertaining stand of 77 in under 12 overs. While Sehwag was out bowled by Jeetan ...
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TEHRAN, September 3, 2012 (PTI) For thousands of years, India has been known as a land of gold and precious stones and nothing symbolises it more than the globe of jewels at the world’s biggest jewellery museum here. The net gold used in the globe, ordered by Naseer-ed-din Shah in 1869 AD, is 34 kg and the total weight of stones — diamonds, rubies, emeralds and others — is over 3.6 kg. The total number of stones used is 51,366 pieces. Sparkle of gems Finding the different ...
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मुंबई। Sep 02, 2012, विपुल मेहता इंडियन आइडल सीजन-6 के विजेता बन गए हैं। शो में दो महीने की कड़ी मेहनत के बाद विपुल को विजेता घोषित किया गया। शनिवार शाम फिल्म सिटी में आयोजित ग्रैंड फिनाले में विपुल ...
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NEW DELHI, August 29, 2012 British Airways, on Wednesday, said it was reviewing its India operations strategy in the wake of the massive hike in airport charges at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport here. Revisiting strategy “With the massive hike in airport charges, which are very high, we have been left with no other alternative but to revisit our strategy and assess route profitability,” Christopher Fordyce, British Airways\' Regional Commercial Manager (South Asia), ...
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TAMPA, August 28, 2012 India may well be poised to receive top billing at the ongoing Republican National Convention here in Florida, as an alleged draft party platform inadvertently posted on the convention website defined India as the U.S.’ “geopolitical ally and a strategic trading partner”. The copy, which was obtained by Politico before being pulled down from the site, went on to note, “We encourage India to permit greater foreign investment and trade. We urge protection for ...
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TEHRAN, August 29, 2012 While maintaining that talks on the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline were stalemated on the issue of security and price, official sources denied that its slow progress, as compared to the proposed project from Turkmenistan, was due to the “pincer” pressure by the Europeans and the Americans. “There is no pincer. Iran has pegged the price at international rates plus a certain percentage of profit. Where is the advantage for us? We would also like to be assured ...
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NEW DELHI, August 27, 2012 India and China, on Monday, agreed to set up a joint working group (JWG) to look into not only trade-related issues but also investments. The working group is expected to come out with a report within 90 days The working group is set up even as India has expressed serious concerns over the widening trade deficit with its neighbour and sought a correction. On its part, China expressed serious concern over the imposition of duty on import of power equipment by New ...
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HYDERABAD, August 28, 2012 India should not celebrate too soon. While the drubbing of a listless New Zealand side in the first Test here was a power-packed performance, the days ahead could challenge the side more. England and Australia will put up a greater fight in the eight home Tests following the ongoing two-match series. Pounding a dispirited Kiwi side should not bring about a false sense of complacency. In fact, India needs to look beyond the Test matches at home and should ...
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TEHRAN, August 28, 2012 (PTI) Ahead of the 16th NAM Summit, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has said that India hopes to boost mutual cooperation with Iran especially in the economic sector. The remarks came even as US has been leaning on India to decrease its engagement with Tehran which has been hit by a series of sanctions slapped by Washington and some other Western countries. Mr Krishna yesterday told reporters upon his arrival at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport ...
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CHENNAI, August 24, 2012 India’s efforts to build its own Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system crossed a milestone on Wednesday when a fully modified Brazilian Embraer-145 aircraft, on which the system will be installed, arrived on Wednesday night at the HAL airport in Bangalore. The aircraft, with the indigenous Active Electronic Scanning Array (AESA) radar, will be an “eye in the sky.” The radar can look 240 degrees within a short time and has a range of 350 km. It ...
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HYDERABAD, August 23, 2012 There is a reason why India should not under-estimate New Zealand going into the first Test at Uppal here on Thursday. The last Test India figured in was in Australia in mid-January, more than seven months ago. Since then it has all been Twenty20 and ODI cricket for the Indian team. In contrast, the Kiwis are coming off a recent Test series in the West Indies. New Zealand might be a struggling outfit but fought hard in the second Test in Jamaica and, ...
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HYDERABAD, August 23, 2012 (PTI) Openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir departed in close succession after giving India a steady start as the hosts reached 97 for two at lunch on the opening day of the first cricket Test against New Zealand in Hyderabad on Thursday. At lunch, Cheteshwar Pujara and Sachin Tendulkar were unbeaten on identical scores of 12, having negotiated 32 and 41 deliveries respectively in India’s first innings. Gambhir, who scored 22 off 36 balls, was the ...
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NEW DELHI, August 23, 2012 Sunil Chhetri must make his presence felt. Scoring goals has been a passion for this diminutive striker and opportunism is his forte. With a deft header he gave India the lead in the first half as a motivated India began its Nehru Cup campaign on a bright note with a 2-1 win against Syria at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Wednesday. For a dedicated group of Syrian supporters it must have been disappointing but then their team failed to capitalize on the ...
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Hyderabad, August 22, 2012 India enters a hectic home season where its strongest flank on own soil — batting — will be under scrutiny. The departure of Rahul Dravid and V.V.S. Laxman will surely leave the host with a less formidable line-up. The quality and experience of Dravid and Laxman proved great barrier for opposing sides. Now India has to rebuild. This is easier said than done since India struggled to find a worthy replacement for Sourav Ganguly in the middle-order, ...
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Aug 21, 2012. Superstar Shah Rukh Khan found himself in a new controversy earlier today after social worker Ravindra Brahme lodged a case against the actor for insulting the national flag of India. While surfing the net, Brahme came across images of SRK holding the Indian tri-colour upside down and celebrating after Indian cricket team won the World Cup in April 2011. Although the actor may not have done it deliberately, Brahme felt that it was disrespectful of the actor to indulge in ...
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NEW YORK, August 21, 2012 (PTI) Thousands of Indian-Americans gathered at Madison Avenue in Manhattan here for the annual India Day Parade to commemorate the 66th Independence Day of their homeland, with actor Saif Ali Khan and cricketer Anil Kumble gracing the occasion as special guests. The 32nd ‘India Day Parade’, held on August 19, has become a regular fixture in the city’s cultural scene and is one of the biggest parades organised in the U.S. Mr. Khan, dressed in a crisp ...
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BEIJING, August 11, 2012 Indian exports to China fell by 8 per cent in July — the biggest decline in Chinese imports from any major country — further widening an already record trade deficit that has increasingly strained trade ties. Indian exports to China fell to $12.9 billion after seven months of this year, according to figures released here on Friday. Imports fell 3.3 per cent to $26.6 billion, taking India’s deficit to $13.7 billion. Officials said the fall was largely ...
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NEW DELHI, August 9, 2012 Indian economy is expected to grow at 5.5 per cent this year as “turbulent” global conditions, domestic policy “mis-steps” and poor monsoon are weighing on investor confidence and demand, Moody’s Analytics has said. India’s GDP growth rate is likely to be 5.5 per cent this year, while in 2013 growth is expected to be 6 per cent, adjusted from 6.2 per cent earlier, it said. “There has been little policy response from either the Reserve Bank ...
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