Beijing: China-India relations have "strategic significance" and "global impact" as both are large developing countries and emerging markets, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told India's visiting External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in Beijing on Friday.
Later, Khurshid also met Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi, who also pledged to strengthen ties between the two countries. Premier Li highlighted the importance that the new Chinese government has placed on developing ties with India, Xinhua reported.
He said China would like to enhance political trust, deepen pragmatic cooperation, strengthen people-to-people understanding and expand communication on international and regional issues so as to develop their strategic partnership.
Last week, intense negotiations between India and China saw an end to a 20-day stand-off, with troops of both sides pulling back to their respective positions prior to April 15, 2013 -- when Chinese forces intruded 19 km inside the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh....
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04:25 AM, May 11, 2013
Mumbai: State Bank of India on Friday said it has entered into a partnership with the Industrial Bank of Korea to help the Korean small businesses doing business here in the country. The agreement will help about 480 Korean small and medium enterprises operating in the country, SBI said in a statement issued in Mumbai. In the absence of a branch of the Korean bank in the country, "this agreement...
03:45 AM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company Ltd (PDOECL) is in "advanced stages" of discussions with DCNS for a strategic partnership, which may include selling some stake to the French defence major. "We are at an advanced stage of discussion with the French company, DCNS, a world renowned warship and submarine builder, for a strategic partnership that will allow for the transfer of state-of-the-art technologies to PDOECL. "An investment...
04:45 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: In the backdrop of NDA ally JD(U)'s attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Rajnath Singh on Sunday said relationship with coalition partners will "remain good". "Our relationships with all the coalition partners were good, are good and will remain good," he told reporters in Delhi without elaborating when asked about his reaction to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's criticism of Modi. Singh was speaking on...
02:00 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has opened a school in Afghanistan through her foundation The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict. The 37-year-old actress has funded the girls only educational establishment, which caters to between 200 and 300 students, just outside of Kabul and hopes it will be the first of many schools she sets up, reported E! online. ...
07:38 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Describing the current economic atmosphere in India as "deeply troubling", top American lawmakers and experts on Wednesday said the country needs to take urgent steps towards the next phase of reforms to boost economic growth. ...
01:48 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Indians are more likely to check their partner's email accounts, stalk their ex-partners on Facebook and Twitter and even post pictures of private moments online, compared to their global counterparts, says a survey by security software maker McAfee. ...
05:48 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Research In Motion Ltd has gathered a number of big-name music and video partners for its BlackBerry 10 storefront, ranging from Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures to Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. ...
11:23 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Tokyo: Panasonic may sell its Sanyo digital camera business to Japanese private equity fund Advantage Partners by the end of March, a source familiar with the plan said. A final decision on the sale will be made by the end of the year, the source said on condition he was not identified. Advantage Partners will pay several hundreds of millions of yen for the business, which makes digital cameras for...
04:42 PM, Dec 12, 2012
London: People spend more than two hours a week dwelling on regrets, with not having travelled enough as the most common cause of remorse, a new UK study has found. More than half of those surveyed admitted wishing they had made a different life choice at some point, such as having a different career, living somewhere else or marrying someone different, according to research by the British Heart Foundation. A...
04:21 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Andy Tennant, the director of films like Fools Rush In, Ever After, Hitch and Fools Gold, claims that his next film will have a significant Indian involvement. Though the only Indian actor he knows is Aishwarya Rai, but he is looking forward to learn more about Indian cinema. Tennant is in India for the 14th Mumbai Film Festival. Screenwriter and director Andy Tennant, who started his career by...
03:45 PM, Oct 24, 2012
With less than a month to go for Russia's President Vladimir Putin's visit to Delhi, the two sides appear to have "stabilised" the military relationship ...
12:56 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Hyderabad: India's metro man E Sreedharan on Friday said the public-private partnership (PPP) model in implementing metro projects has not been a success anywhere across the world. Two metro projects are coming up under PPP model at Hyderabad and Mumbai. Sreedharan, principal advisor, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, said Hyderabad has the good fortune of having L&T as a partner, which should immensely benefit it. He, however, cautioned that the cost...
12:49 AM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: A female lawyer was found dead in the Wadala area of Mumbai on Thursday. A police officer said that the woman's throat was slit and that the neighbours informed the police. The police have taken her live-in partner into custody and he is being questioned. He is also said to be from the legal fraternity. The woman's father is said to be a Delhi-based IAS officer. More details...
02:44 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has defended his decision to retain a role for the government in land acquisition for Public Private Partnerships. "If you are going to leave everything to private purchase it is the small land owner and livelihood losers who are going to be badly affected," he says. CNN-IBN spoke to him regarding the matter. Rupashree Nanda: You have turned down certain important recommendations of the...
01:44 PM, Jul 19, 2012
New Delhi: India will get Rs 250 crore grant from Norway in the next five years for improving rural health care services to further reduce child and maternal mortality. This follows the extention of Norway-India Partnership Initiative (NIPI), designed to facilitate states to improve delivery of child health services with efficient techno-managerial support structures, for another five years beyond 2012, officials said. A letter of intent in this regard was...
04:41 AM, Jun 25, 2012
Berlin: Bayerische Motoren Werke and Toyota Motor Corp are planning to expand cooperation beyond green car technology and diesel engines, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday, without citing any sources. The German premium car maker agreed with the Japanese manufacturer last December to supply diesel engines to Toyota from 2014 in Europe and collaborate on lithium-ion battery research for electric cars. Both companies have since been exploring other fields for...
10:58 PM, Jun 24, 2012
San Francisco: Microsoft Corp kept its personal computer partners largely in the dark about its plans to launch a competing tablet computer, with some long-time collaborators learning of the new gadget only days before its unveiling, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The secrecy that shrouded the Surface tablet risks alienating Microsofts hardware partners, and marks a departure from the software companys tradition of working closely with hardware...
10:34 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Passing through Bulandshahar, a rapidly urbanising district in Uttar Pradesh known for its rustic politics and dairying, this reporter chanced upon a group of farmers sitting in protest outside a newly constructed apartment. The farmers occupied a tent that was erected outside the apartment complex. Their complaint was that they were being coerced to sell land for cheap by private players. "We will get only a measly Rs 20 lakh...
03:28 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Andrew Strauss and his opening partner Alastair Cook became only the fifth partnership in Test history to have put on more than 5,000 runs together. ...
11:50 AM, May 29, 2012
