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New Delhi: Following Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s visit to Japan and Thailand the country’s Defence Minister AK Antony is scheduled to make a three-nation official visit to strengthen defence and security ties with the countries in the region of east Indian Ocean and the Pacific.

New Delhi: A three-day regional conclave of Overseas India is slated to be held in Sydney in Australia from November 10, this year.

New Delhi: India is slated to give final operational to the indigenously developed fighter aircraft - LCA Tejas - by the end of next year.

BHOPAL: If at all the Bharatiya Janata Party emerges victorious in the Vidhan Sabha elections to be held in November this year in Madhya Pradesh, the credit will go to the social engineering, on which Shivraj Singh has been laying emphasis from the day he took over as the Chief Minister in September 2005.

India’s growth, hesitantly picking up, should gradually recover to 5.7 per cent in fiscal 2014, as efforts to speed up approvals of large investment projects and partial deregulation of FDI take effect, according to OECD’s half-yearly Economic Outlook. Structural factors besides inflationary pressures have impeded growth, which was at its weakest in a decade in 2012, estimated at 3.8 per cent at market prices and on a calendar year basis.

The developing economic and strategic alliance among four Pacific and Indian Ocean giants – Japan, the US, Australia and India – seems to be driving China mad. The communist country’s latest verbal attack through its mouthpiece, People’s Daily, against Japan and its democratically elected prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and calling him and the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, currently in Japan, “petty burglars” display its growing frustration and intolerance towards other Asian powers and nervous reaction to growing Indo-Japan strategic ties.

New Delhi: After Japan visit what awaits for the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in Thailand?

The disconnect between the reality of nuclear power and the Indian establishment’s perception of it is complete. Nuclear power has been in worldwide decline for more than a decade. The number of operating reactors peaked in 2002 at 444, and has fallen to under 380. Their electricity output peaked globally in 2004, and has since decreased annually by 2 percent or more.

It appears that both mother and son, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, have chosen the wrong role model – Indira Gandhi - from their family. While Sonia seemingly imbibed all the unsavoury traits of Indira during her stay in her mother-in-law’s house when she was new to the country and unfamiliar with its history and politics, the explanation for Rahul’s admiration for his grandmother is somewhat different.

History, they say, repeats itself. And it has happened in Punjab in a short span of five years. The reference is to the May 19 panchayat elections which the ruling Akali Dal handsomely won. In 2008 also the party had swept the panchayat polls. Both the elections were held a year after the 2007 and 2012 state Assembly elections. As in 2008, the Congress again suffered a humiliating defeat in the 2013 panchayat polls. The top Akali brass has described 2013 panchayat polls outcome as a rehearsal for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.