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NEW DELHI: China hopes to have free trade discussions with India during the Chinese Premier's visit to New Delhi this week, a signal of how the two Asian powerhouses may try to smooth tensions over their economic and border rivalries.
"The free trade agreement is the next stage (of India-China relations). It is our hope that we can start the process," China's envoy to India, Zhang Yan, told reporters in New Delhi on Monday. "We are very much positive on these issues. I think

ISLAMABAD: India wants to resume talks with Pakistan on Kashmir from where former president Pervez Musharraf left and to carry forward almost "80 percent progress" made then towards the settlement of core issue, a source told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
"Pakistan and India were able to resolve '80 percent' of the Kashmir dispute during the year-long talks between the Musharraf regime and the Indian government, mostly through back channel diplomacy," said a senior Pakistani

ISLAMABAD: The US has been urging India to engage Pakistan in talks on bilateral issues, but the latter has not been receptive on this count citing "no follow-up action" by Islamabad against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks, revealed a diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
A diplomatic cable sent by the US embassy in New Delhi to Washington DC on June 29, 2009 quotes former US National Security Adviser James Jones asking the former Indian army chief General Deepak

UNITED NATIONS: India has not abandoned the $7.3-billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project and is seriously looking for courageous insurance companies to underwrite the project, a senior diplomat attached to the Permanent Mission of India to the UN said on Saturday.
As the natural gas comes via Pakistan from Iran, there are some serious security concerns. "Apart from what we see is happening in the world today, we need Lloyds or other major global insurance giants setting

NEW DELHI: The Indian government made an official protest to Washington on Saturday over the security frisking of its envoy at a US airport and hinted it could lead to tit-for-tat action, a report said.
Donald Lu, deputy chief of the US embassy in New Delhi, was summoned to the Indian foreign ministry, the Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted officials as saying.
Lu was told the airport check was "contrary to the normal diplomatic practice and inconsistent with the excellent

CHENNAI: India completed a 5-0 whitewash over New Zealand in their one-day series on Friday when they won the final match by eight wickets after bundling the Kiwis out for 103. Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin led the Indian spinners with three wickets while part-time spinners Yuvraj Singh and Yusuf Pathan took two each on a dry pitch at the M.A.
Chidambaram Stadium. Only a 43-run partnership between Scott Styris (24) and Jamie How (23) for the fourth wicket ensured New Zealand

BRUSSELS: India and the European Union are seeking a compromise on a controversial EU plan to offer flood-devastated Pakistan trade concessions as relief, both sides said at a summit on Friday.
Prompted by Britain, leaders of the 27-nation bloc have approved a scheme to offer two years of trade concessions to Pakistan - essentially on textiles - to ease its recovery from the floods, but need a waiver from the WTO in Geneva to kickstart the aid.
India however has expressed

MUMBAI: India, the world's largest silver buyer, is on track to show sharply higher imports this year, as prices of the metal near 30-year peaks , with consumers normally fond of more expensive gold seek to lower cash outlays. "Certainly there has been an increased interest in silver, and it's drawing interest from people who cannot afford gold, even return-wise the metal has done well," said Parker Agrochem Bullion Desk Head Haresh Acharya.
India's silver demand averages 2,500

BRUSSELS: The European Union and India agreed on Friday to intensify their cooperation against terrorism to deny safe havens to extremists in the wake of the Mumbai attacks and new threats against Europe.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the EU leadership issued a joint declaration in Brussels vowing to encourage "all" nations to dismantle "terror infrastructure on the territories under their control." They did not name any country but the West has been on high alert over fears

NEW DELHI: India on Thursday widened a probe into the country's biggest corruption case to include decisions made during the main opposition party's rule, a move that may take steam out of a campaign against the government.
The probe into the 2008 grants of telecoms licences that the state auditor said lost India $39 billion in potential revenue will now examine licencing procedures when the main opposition was in power and which have been cited in court as a precedent.