India and China
“Making the dragon and elephant dance is the only right choice,” says China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi as he extends a friendly hand to India to bolster the democratisation of global relations while stren - gthening the Global South.
“Making the dragon and elephant dance is the only right choice,” says China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi as he extends a friendly hand to India to bolster the democratisation of global relations while stren - gthening the Global South.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam, on Wednesday, jointly inaugurated the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Public Service and Innovation in Reduit, Mauritius.
BJP MP Sarangi, who sustained injuries during a scuffle in Parliament on December 19 and was hospitalised, shared his health update with reporters on Monday.
Governance reforms must begin at the grassroots to bring about long-lasting and meaningful change, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, said on Wednesday, as he launched the ‘Viksit Panchayat Karmayogi’ initiative.
Good Governance Day is observed on December 25 each year in honour of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birth anniversary.
The 72-year-old Gandhi, who was accompanied by her son and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, was in Rae Bareli to file her nomination papers.
It is, however, unclear how seriously the party will heed Advani’s advice to “look back and look within”, for truth be told, the current breed of political activists ~ across all parties ~ would prefer to reverse the order of “nation, party and self”.
Insisting that India was capable of retaliation, Mr Doval said “What shall we do, what should be our intention, our path, our reaction, the country’s leadership is capable of deciding...whether the action is against terrorists or those who support these terrorists. We can face every kind of challenge,” he said.
The Congress cited an interview of NSA Ajit Doval in which he had said that the then BJP-led government was responsible for Azhar's release in 1999 after an Indian Airlines plane was hijacked to Kandahar
Yet hope must spring eternal: and despite “issues” like nationalism, farm distress, dubious handling of a defence purchase, and the potentially explosive Ayodhya controversy, the people of India would be anxious that the 17th Lok Sabha generates light rather than the divisive heat that has charred the past five years.
