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President Barack Obama's visit to India, both inspirational and eventful, has set the stage for Indo-American relations to enter a new era of Global Strategic Partnership for promoting a “just and sustainable international order”, advancing technology and innovation for economic and socially inclusive growth, and for working together for peace and security and for, ultimately, a nuclear-free world.

The US President Barack Obama came, he saw but did he conquer? It cannot be called path breaking as that of his predecessor Bush or captivating as that of Clinton but on the whole he did leave behind an impact. It was high in atmospherics and rhetoric. Although his visit began on a sombre note by paying homage to the victims of 26/11, the whole country was bewildered by the charm of the man who made history. Obama's nuanced support for India's candidature for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council was the high point.

United States 1st President of Afro-American origin Barack Obama's India visit underpinned a lot of hopes for strengthening relationships between India United States further. Did the visit achieve the expectations of the overtly optimists and bely the hopes of the hopeless pesimists, the traditional US bashers in indian polity.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party's performance in the recently-held local bodies' elections in Kerala has not been as impressive as has been cracked up to be.

New Delhi: India is likely to insist for an extensive discussion on the development agenda which is being introduced for the first time in the G-20 Summit. This G-20 Summit in Seoul in South Korea will be the first one in Asia and being hosted for the first time by any country outside the G-8 group. The two-day Summit begins from November 11.

KOLKATA: Myanmar's biggest military backed party won the country's first elections in 20 years after total rigging and subverting all process of democratic functioning. Opposition parties which were totally cornered by the junta conceded defeat but accused the military establishment of total fraud. As the votes were being counted, the government soldiers cleared ethnic minority rebels from an eastern border town after repeated clashes that killed at least 10 people.

About 25% of the country’s geographical area is affected by desertification. The Space Application Centre in 2007 brought out the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas which shows 81.45 million hectare land in the country has turned into arid, semi-arid or dry sub humid region. Desertification results in decline in water table and availability of water, reduced agricultural productivity, loss of bio-diversity in the affected regions. All these affect the lives and livelihoods of the populations, often eventually precipitating forced migration and socio-economic conflicts.

New Delhi: The leaders of the major and economies are scheduled to meet at Seoul in South Korea for two days beginning November 11 to review the status of global economic recovery since the Great Recession of 2008 and decide on the future mandate and direction.

The attack by Bharatiya Janata Party Mahila Morcha activists on the residence of writer Arundhati Roy in Delhi, accompanied by abusive slogans and breaking of flower-pots, marks a new low in the destructive activities of the forces of bigotry and intolerance in India. It is a hair-raising reminder of the great distance this society has travelled from the concept of a liberal democracy which genuinely respects the freedom of expression and the right to dissent—a concept that's at the heart of the Constitution.

The unity of G-20, designated by President Obama as the “premier global economic-decision making forum” has taken a knock, with several of its leading members on a war path against the US Federal Reserve's decision to create substantial liquidity to revive the faltering American economy. In New Delhi, visiting US President Obama said he would not comment on Fed's actions as an independent institution in America.