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U.S., Russia: The Case for Bilateral Talks
Phone calls between relatively low-level diplomats are normally not newsworthy. But Monday’s conversation between U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin on the simmering conflict in Ukraine is an […]
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Pakistan to include ‘India’s role’ in school attack in dossier
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan would include proof of alleged Indian involvement in the Taliban attack on a Peshawar army school last year, which killed 152 people mostly kids, in a dossier that it would handover to […]
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Transnationals | Tax Havens | Terrorism
“Westphalian sovereignty is the principle of international law that each nation state has sovereignty over its territory and domestic affairs, to the exclusion of all external powers. The principle of non-interference in another country’s domestic affairs, […]
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PM MODI MEETS XI, PUTIN IN RUSSIA
UFA (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday took up with President Xi Jinping the issue of China putting on “technical hold” India’s move in the United Nations to question Pakistan on the release of 26/11 […]
Europe
Russia vetoes UN resolution calling Srebrenica a genocide
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution July 8 that would have condemned the 1995 massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war as a “crime of genocide,” saying that singling out the […]
India
TERROR TALKS TOP PM’S CENTRAL ASIA VISIT
NEW DELHI (TIP): As Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads for Central Asia, the first PM to visit all the five ‘Stans’ in one shot, India is hoping political outreach, counter-terrorism cooperation, energy and soft power […]
Indian Americans
Indian Americans Preet Bharara & Rakesh Khurana honored with Carnegie’s ‘Great Immigrant’ award
NEW YORK (TIP): The Carnegie Corporation has announced the 2015 “Great Immigrant”: The Pride of America” awardees. These are the individuals who have helped advance and enlighten our society, culture, and economy. Preet Bharara, U.S. […]
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Business leaders urge G20 to push digital economy, e-commerce
ISTANBUL (TIP): An influential group of business leaders have urged the G20 to improve the global trade system for the emerging digital economy as well as focus on reforms to ensure strong and sustainable growth. […]
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Saudi Arabia loses spot as top crude supplier to India, China
NEW DELHI : Saudi Arabia lost its spot last month as (TIP)India‘s top oil supplier to Nigeria for the first time in at least four years, according to ship tracking data compiled by Reuters, as […]
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Indian American Vikram Virk kills teen friend Jaskaran Singh in a Russian Roulette game
DALLAS (TIP): An Indian American in Texas shot dead his friend in a deadly game of Russian Roulette. Vikram Virk, 27, and 18-year-old Jaskaran Singh were playing Russian roulette in Virk’s car in the parking […]
India
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UKRAINE SAYS IT MAY FREEZE DEBT PAYMENTS TO FUND WAR
KIEV (TIP): Ukraine’s premier warned Friday that Kiev would freeze its debt repayments if no immediate deal was found with private lenders because it had to fund its escalating campaign against pro-Russian fighters. Prime Minister […]
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A way with the world
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, scored most in foreign policy in his first year in power. No one anticipated Modi’s natural flair for diplomacy, to which he has brought imagination and self-assurance. Modi has been more […]
India
India & US clear two ground-breaking defence projects
NEW DELHI: India and the United States have sealed an agreement to jointly develop protective gear for soldiers against biological and chemical warfare, and another on building generators, defence officials said on Wednesday. The projects […]
Europe