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Border Talks Between India and China Making Progress According to China’s Foreign Minister

Ut World March 9, 2015 0

Progress is being made on drawn-out border talks with India, China’s foreign minister said on Sunday, likening the process to climbing a mountain that becomes harder the closer to the summit you get. The neighbouring giants have had numerous rounds of talks over the years without making Continue Reading

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Budget Pleases Economists

Ut World March 2, 2015 0

India’s reform-minded prime minister, Narendra Modi, appears to have passed a major test with a budget that pleased economists and investors with pledges to spend more on modernising India’s ageing roads and railways while keeping borrowing in check. The budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday loosened the reins on public spending to […]Continue Reading

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Government Ready to Make Changes to Issued Decree

Ut World February 28, 2015 0

The government is ready to make changes to an executive decree it issued to make it easier for businesses to buy farm land for infrastructure and industry, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told lawmakers on Friday. The decree is aimed at unlocking hundreds of billions of dollars of projects stuck for want of land, but opposition […]Continue Reading

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BJP and PDP to Jointly Govern Kashmir

Ut World February 25, 2015 0

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will for the first time have a role in governing the Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, at the heart of nearly seven decades of hostility with Pakistan, officials said. Modi, who stormed to power in May, 2014, personally addressed election rallies in the northern state […]Continue Reading

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India to Build Advanced Warships

Ut World February 19, 2015 0

The government has cleared a $8 billion plan to build India’s most advanced warships, defence sources said, just months after ordering new submarines to close the gap with the Chinese navy in the Indian Ocean. Since taking over last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has signalled his resolve to build a strong military after years […]Continue Reading

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Modi’s Vow for Protection of All Religions in India

Ut World February 18, 2015 0

Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed on Tuesday to protect all religious groups, an apparent response to a series of attacks on Christian institutions in New Delhi fuelling concerns that minorities are being targeted by Hindu zealots. Critics say that Modi’s government, which is led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has failed to protect religious Continue Reading

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Speeding up economy recovery

Ut World January 12, 2015 0

Held back by weak demand at home and abroad, Indian industrial output probably made a tepid recovery late last year, underscoring the challenges faced in 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he seeks to woo global investors this week.To accelerate the recovery in Asia’s third largest economy from its longest slowdown since the 1980s, […]Continue Reading

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Defense supplier for India

Ut World December 12, 2014 0

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Russia will remain India’s top defense supplier, even though New Delhi’s options had improved since the end of the Cold War. Modi spoke after a one-day summit that sought to revive a relationship that peaked in the Soviet era. The two sides signed billions […]Continue Reading

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Energy partnership between India and Russia

Ut World December 11, 2014 0

India and Russia will strike an energy partnership when Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosts President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to prepare the way for two Siberian oil deals and chart a route for a first pipeline between the two countries. But a joint ‘vision’ document is likely to lack hard details, with terms still being thrashed out for […]Continue Reading

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Liberalizing the Indian Economy

Ut World September 30, 2014 0

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told nearly a dozen U.S. company chiefs on Monday that he is committed to liberalizing his country’s economy, which has underperformed other emerging markets recently after years of breakneck growth. Modi spoke at a breakfast with 11 chief executive officers during his first U.S. visit since coming came to power in May, vowing […]Continue Reading