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Trade and economic issues to dominate Manmohan-Obama meeting

Increased US aggression on the issue of ``unfair trade practices’’ by India and concerns over India’s Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime, local content restrictions and the 26 per cent limit on foreign direct investment (FDI) in defence are likely to figure prominently in the talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama, concerning trade and economic engagement.

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Iran, Syria and India-Pakistan: UNGA preview

With so many presidents and prime ministers performing at the podium, the UN General Assembly can take on the feel of a diplomatic variety show. At least 131 leaders are converging on Turtle Bay in New York, site of the UN headquarters. All of them will get the chance to speak, from the heads of some of the world's richest and largest nations like America and India, to comparative minnows like Cape Verde and Bhutan. The length of your motorcade is often a measure of your power.

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Salman Khurshid to visit Sri Lanka in October

Within two weeks of Tamil National Alliance romping home in the historic Northern Provincial elections in Sri Lanka , External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will be visiting the island nation early next month. This will be Khurshid’s first visit to Colombo as the External Affairs Minister which will come at a critical time following provincial elections which is seen as opening a critical window of opportunity to achieve reconciliation through devolution of power.

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Efforts to boost exports to China get fillip: Govt

Measures to increase Indian exports to China in order to address trade imbalance between the two countries got a fillip during the India-China Business Matchmaking Symposium organized in New Delhi recently, said the government on Tuesday. "The day-long meeting saw around sixty Indian companies from various sectors engaging themselves with an aim to find ways to address the trade imbalance," the Ministry of Commerce & Industry said in an official press statement, the Ministry of Commerce & Industry said.