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New Delhi: India for the first time would be entering into a labour-related agreement with Saudi Arabia for safety and security of Indians working in the Arab Kingdom.

New Delhi: India is slated to sign pacts with the Maldives for protection of Indian business and people in that country and sign bilateral agreement on consular and visa issues.

New Delhi: India has finally taken the decision to cancel the controversial Rs 3,546 crore deal for 12 VVIP helicopters inked with the Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland in February 2010, sources in the Defence Ministry said here on Wednesday.

After forming its government in Delhi, AAP is eying on the next Lok Sabha elections. It will be wrong to suggest that AAP would repeat its performance in the next Lok Sabha poll, because it is not organizationally prepared to fight that. Delhi was the epicenter of the movement against corruption and it was the best place to start with for Aam Aadmi Party, which emerged out of that movement. It was a good strategy for Arvind Kejriwal not to fight Assembly elections outside Delhi, which were held in last November and December months. Now it has scored impressive victory in Delhi and has even formed its government by getting the opportunistic support of the Congress, which wants to see AAP discredited by not performing well while running the government.

In the 2014 run-up to the Lok Sabha Election, the ruling UPA coalition headed by the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is left clueless as to how to get back to the slender majority it managed in 2009 to capture popular vote of the people, more so the aam aadmi. After the travesty of its own but unpatented slogan by a new political party in the name of aam aadmi in the Delhi Assembly elections, the century-old party Congress is desperately looking for strategies to erase the sullenness and sulking of the poor people across the nation, for whom the rise in food inflation to 20 per cent in 2013 is a rankling sore that put paid to all their hope of having even half a square meal a day.

Year 2013 is significant for many reasons. This was the year of change when Indian politics deviated from its past oft-used formula. This was the year of continuation, that of the democratic process seen since the formation of the democratic republic of India. This was the year of turmoil when political system witnessed several changes. This was the year of stability when the disruptions cleansed the system and made it more acceptable. This was the year of despair when many lost patience with the inflexibility of the political process. This is the year of hope, a sense that year 2014 will build on the foundation laid by the year passing by.

New Delhi: Come the first day of Circa 2014. The Indian Army Medical Corps will be celebrating its 250th anniversary with a determination to extend its services to civilians and para-military forces. The medical services of the Indian Armed Forces are likely to be extended to more friendly countries apart from their existing works in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Maldives, Syria, Nicaragua, Philippines, Nepal, Sudan. There will be increased allotment of seats to students from friendly foreign countries in graduate and post-graduate courses in armed forces medical institutes.

The Aam Aadmi Party’s dizzying ascent to power in India’s Capital should make all political parties revisit their long-held assumptions about what platforms and strategies succeed in elections and how they shape the equations underlying national politics.

LUCKNOW: With Arvind Kejriwal taking over as CM in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav is under tremendous pressure to deliver good governance before 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

It is worth noting that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has dropped Vande Mataram from its list of slogans. At present, these are Bharat Mata ki Jai and Inquilab Zindabad. Behind the exclusion of Vande Mataram is an evident desire to reach out to the Muslims, who are not seen to be present in large numbers in the AAP’s meetings.