Attacks on Africans threaten to shadow India-Africa ties
The attacks on African nationals in Delhi and other parts of India has come as a shock to the government which has made Africa an important priority in its foreign policy outreach. The stray incidents of criminality targeting Africans are hogging media headlines, and are threatening to cloud the much-vaunted development partnership between India and […]
VP Ansari’s visit to Morocco, Tunisia to galvanise India’s Africa outreach
More than six months after the grandly-staged India-Africa Forum Summit, Vice-President Hamid Ansari heads on the first such trip to the North African countries of Morocco and Tunisia.
Mukherjee’s China visit: Political trust holds key to major power ties
Political trust holds the key to harmonious major power relations between the two Asian giants. This was the overarching message of India’s President Pranab Mukherjee and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the former’s recently concluded visit to Beijing and Guangzhou. The two sides should appropriately address our differences,” President Xi Jinping told Mr Mukherjee during […]
Global growth an urgent priority: G7 leaders
In the backdrop of a grim global economic scenario, the G7 industrialised nations have stressed on reviving global growth and discussed steps to prevent another major crisis. “Global growth remains moderate and below potential, while risks of weak growth persist,” the G7 leaders said after a two-day summit in central Japan. “Global growth is […]
Obama visits Hiroshima, calls for moral revolution to eliminate nukes
In his historic visit to Hiroshima, the first by an American president to the only city to be bombed by atomic weapons, US President Barack Obama called for a moral revolution to eliminate nuclear weapons. The US leader laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on May 27 and called for a moral cleansing […]
Modi mantra: Connecting Northeast to ASEAN via Act East policy
Pledging to develop the Northeast region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the NDA government at the Centre is keen on reducing isolation of the northeastern states through its ambitious Act East Policy for all-round connectivity of the region.