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The world economy looks to have reversed a prolonged slowdown, with the stronger recovery now in advanced economies, and growth is expected to bounce to 3.7 per cent from 3 per cent in 2013, the latter half of which already saw a pickup in both global output and trade.

BHOPAL: The mega scam in Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (Vyapam) dominated the proceedings of the first session of the newly-elected Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. Scathing attack was launched on the BJP government by Satyadev Katare, the new leader of Opposition.

The Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti’s recent unseemly conduct has confirmed the wisdom of those who decided that the police in the national capital should remain under the control of the centre. Otherwise, there may be repetitions of the unprecedented scene of the external affairs ministry having to reassure the envoys of a specific group of countries – in this case, those from Africa – that their nationals are safe in Delhi.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy surrounding the tragic death of his wife has put a question mark over the candidature of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor for the Lok Sabha election.

There are now three national-level players for the Battle of 2014, the third one a fledgling upstart - AAP -a novelty on the political scene, building on its unexpected electoral triumph in Delhi to aspire for power at the Centre. It is still in experimental stage, notwithstanding the instant response it has evoked among professionals and the young in a climate of rising expectations for a new era of politics.

A twist in India-Japan relation was witnessed with the increase in Chinese assertiveness in East Asia. Hitherto, India-Japan relation was encircled by only economic and commercial sectors. The departure from the earlier stance was noted with Japan introducing new defence guidelines on December 17, 2013, under new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The two strategic documents (National Security Strategy and National Defence Guidelines 2014), adopted under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, identified a number of areas in which Japan would like to strengthen cooperation with India in the near future. This is believed to counter China’s new air-defence information zone (ADIZ) in East China Sea covering disputed islands of Senkakus and Diaoyus, declared a week before.

The one-day AICC meeting on Friday has demonstrated that Rahul Gandhi has come of age. Whatever his opponents may say, he made a brilliant speech at the AICC, perhaps his best after his impressive oration at the Jaipur conclave where he was anointed Vice-President of the party. Can the new found resolve to lead from the front help him to make a difference in the Congress Party’s fortune in the coming Lok Sabha elections?

New Delhi: South Korea has said that the kick-off of the POSCO steel plant in Odisha will encourage more Korean investment in India.

New Delhi: India has called for a more detailed discussion on political and security situation in Afghanistan as the presidential election and polls to provincial assemblies are due in April, this year.

Four decades after 1970-71, the US and its European allies have failed in their second attempt to organise an undeclared diplomatic isolation of the Awami league-ruled Bangladesh.