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Germany lobbies India to buy Eurofighters, submarines

May 30, 2015 - 2:36 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): Germany‘s defence minister held out the prospect of more talks on a possible sale of Eurofighter jets to India and, on a visit to New Delhi, said Berlin stood ready to back […]

WORLD HOROSCOPE

May 30, 2015 - 2:27 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

Ganesha says my devotee Bejan Daruwalla is cut to the bone. He is truly devastated. He is shattered. The blowing to smithereens of innocent lives, specially children, religious intolerance, violence, are the main causes for it. […]

Japan’s $110bn boost for Asian infrastructure

May 22, 2015 - 3:39 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

TOKYO (TIP): Japan unveiled a plan on Thursday to provide $110 billion in aid for Asian infrastructure projects, as China prepares to launch a new institutional lender that is seen as encroaching on the regional […]

SIEMENS TO CUT 4,500 JOBS WORLDWIDE

May 8, 2015 - 1:47 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

BERLIN (TIP): German engineering giant Siemens said on Thursday that it would slash an additional 4,500 jobs worldwide, on top of 7,400 cuts previously announced as part of an ongoing restructuring plan. Some 2,200 of the latest job cuts will be […]

Strategic Autonomy as an Indian Foreign Policy Option

May 8, 2015 - 9:09 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

[quote_right]For a large country like India, which has the potential of becoming a big power in the future, strategic autonomy is a compelling choice. By virtue of its demographic, geographic, economic and military size, India […]

Nazi museum opens at old party headquarters in Munich

May 1, 2015 - 4:10 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

In 1930, Adolf Hitler established the headquarters of the National Socialist German Workers‘ Party in an upscale part of Munich. On Thursday April 30, the 70th anniversary of the city’s liberation by US troops, the […]

DEUTSCHE BANK FINED RECORD $2.5 BILLION IN RATE RIGGING INQUIRY

Apr 24, 2015 - 1:21 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

LONDON/NEW YORK (TIP): US and British regulators fined Deutsche Bank$2.5 billion and its British subsidiary pleaded guilty to criminal wire fraud on Thursday as it became the eighth financial group to settle allegations of rigging […]

China fines Mercedes $57 million in price-fixing probe

Apr 24, 2015 - 1:12 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

BEIJING (TIP): A Chinese regulator said on April 23 it has fined Mercedes Benz 350 million yuan ($57 million) on price-fixing charges in a wide-ranging probe of the auto industry that has prompted complaints foreign […]

NETAJI FILES LOCKED UP IN KOLKATA’S SECRET CELL

Apr 17, 2015 - 2:11 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

KOLKATA (TIP): The Nehru regime snoop reports that have rocked the country are only a trickle from the reams of classified documents on Netaji still locked away in a ‘secret cell’ in Kolkata. Sixty-four files […]

Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass wrote about the rise of fascism and became one of the strongest voices that condemned the aftermath of World War II. He became a voice of conscience for other writers and the intelligentsia by courageously owning up his Nazi past.

The German drum gone silent

Apr 17, 2015 - 2:00 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

The death of Günter Grass on Monday, April 13, a giant German writer of the post-World-War-II era, a novelist, playwright, poet, fine draftsman and a sculptor, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1999, has […]

WHY INDIA MATTERS TO CANADA

Apr 17, 2015 - 1:55 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

For two countries that Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls “natural partners” in a new global economy, Canada and India might appear to share a rather meek business relationship. Not even one per cent of Canadian exports currently […]

RBI GOVERNOR GETS DEATH THREAT FROM IS

Apr 17, 2015 - 9:29 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

MUMBAI (TIP): Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan recently received a death threat from a purported Islamic State (IS) email account that is being accessed from across the globe. The governor received the […]

A Pakistani military parade in Islamabad in March. Credit Aamir Qureshi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Nuclear Fears in South Asia – Pak Vs Ind

Apr 16, 2015 - 10:57 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

The world’s attention has rightly been riveted on negotiations aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear program. If and when that deal is made final, America and the other major powers that worked on it — China, […]

Google accused of abusing Internet search dominance: EU

Apr 15, 2015 - 11:31 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

The European Union’s competition regulator on Wednesday accused Google of illegally abusing its dominance of the Internet search market in Europe by favoring its own comparison-shopping product when consumers shop online. The case could cost […]

Bringing Yemen’s tragedy to an end – Need for a fair Shia-Sunni deal

Apr 11, 2015 - 9:30 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

The civil war in Yemen, exacerbated by the intervention of outside powers, is poised at a delicate stage which could impinge on the larger picture of the Middle East’s future trajectory. The truth is that the poorest […]

Serena Williams claws into 10th Miami Open final

Apr 3, 2015 - 2:23 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

MIAMI (TIP): A frustrated Serena Williams clawed into her 10th Miami final on April 1, defeating Simona Halep 6- 2, 4-6, 7-5. Williams, apparently rattled by the Halep cheer squad who drowned out most of […]

INDIA MAY BID FOR 2024 OLYMPICS

Apr 3, 2015 - 8:53 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

BENGALURU (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach will meet later this month in New Delhi to discuss India‘s likely bid for the 2024 Olympic Games. “The Union government is […]

Co-pilot who crashed jet was ‘very happy’ with Germanwings job

Mar 27, 2015 - 10:53 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

MONTABAUR,GERMANY (TIP): Andreas Lubitz never appeared anything but thrilled to have landed a pilot’s job with Germanwings, according to those who helped him learn to fly as a teenager in this town in the forested […]

India 37th among 102 in govt tansparency index

Mar 27, 2015 - 12:53 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

MUMBAI (TIP): India ranks 37 out of 102 countries on the Open Government Index 2015, which ranks countries on how transparent their governments are and the ease with which citizens can hold their government accountable. […]

CHINA NOW WORLD’S THIRD-BIGGEST ARMS EXPORTER: SIPRI

Mar 20, 2015 - 4:19 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

BEIJING (TIP): China has overtaken Germany to become the world’s third-biggest arms exporter, although its 5 per cent of the market remains small compared to the combined 58 per cent of exports from the US […]

EU LEADERS DAMPEN GREEK HOPES FOR BAILOUT RELIEF

Mar 20, 2015 - 4:15 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

BRUSSELS (TIP): Exasperated leaders of the European Union pressed the Greek prime minister to speed up plans to improve his country’s balance sheet in a meeting that stretched into the early hours Friday. ”A deal […]

Pakistan sacked ‘some people’ to keep N-programme safe: Report

Mar 20, 2015 - 1:05 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani authorities sacked some people having “negative tendencies” working with the country’s sensitive nuclear programme to keep it safe, according to a report. “We filtered out people having negative tendencies that could have […]

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