The Chinese Premier has talked a language no other visiting Chinese leader has spoken before. How hopeful should New Delhi be about betterment of ties with Beijing? CNN-IBN's international affairs editor Surya Gangadharan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue.
Q. Myanmar is neighbour to both but more friendly with China. Will our friendliness with China help in improvement of Relationship with Myanmar? Asked by: sundar1950in
A. I don't agree. Myanmar uses India to balance off China. The Myanmar military has always been suspicious of China. Their dependence on China for arms hasn't made things easier. And people don't like the presence of Chinese settlers especially in the north. So India is doing fine there don't worry....
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05:27 PM, May 21, 2013
Coming at a time when mutual trust between the two countries is not at a significant high, what are the major takeaways for India from this high-profile visit? Alka Acharya, director of Institute of Chinese Studies, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the matter. Q. Dear Madam, Do you think that it will be an advantage for India if its relationship with China improves after the Chinese Premier visit...
06:41 PM, May 20, 2013
On Board Special Aircraft: India will participate in the upgradation of strategically crucial Chahbahar port in Iran, that gives access to Afghanistan, and the issue will be discussed when External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid holds talks with his counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi. "We have taken a decision. We will collaborate for development of the port," Khurshid told reporters accompanying him on a three-day visit to Iran. He said the Cabinet...
02:30 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid is to go ahead with his May 9, 2013 Beijing visit amid the stand-off between the two countries over the incursion by Chinese troops in Depsang area of Ladakh. External affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said on Thursday, in answer to a question, that Khurshid has said that "he intends to go and that is the last word". He said that the Chinese...
04:25 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Ways to increase commercial links with sanctions-hit Iran to reduce huge bilateral trade imbalance will be high on the agenda when External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid travels to Tehran on Friday on a three-day visit. India's participation in the upgradation of Iran's Chahbahar port, which gives access to Afghanistan, will also be among a host of issues expected to figure in the talks that Khurshid will have with...
03:25 AM, May 03, 2013
Istanbul: The United States asked Turkey's leader to delay a Gaza Strip visit so as not to upset US efforts to revive Ankara's ties with Israel and Middle East peace talks, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who has for years spoken of his desire to visit the Palestinian enclave, said last week he planned to go in late May 2013 after an...
02:00 AM, Apr 22, 2013
When you finish reading a book of a stature such as "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan, you sit down, breathe and keep breathing, till the breath paces itself out and you aren't gasping anymore. The effect of books has to be this way. It has to have the maddening reaction in a reader - the gasping, the constant thinking about the characters and more so how...
12:24 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: Prime minister Manmohan Singh has left for Berlin on Wednesday to participate in the second round of inter-governmental consultations with Germany. The two countries are celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations and will address possible areas of cooperation. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and other important officials are going to be a part of the delegation on the bilateral visit. Dr Singh will arrive in Berlin on the...
09:05 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be meeting Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia in Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the allocation of funds for her state for 2013. Mamata hopes to get a hike of 25 per cent in the plan size compared to 2012's 16 percent. Mamata is also scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the CPI(M) claimed the trip...
07:29 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Saturday prayed at the Ajmer Sharif shrine for peace in his country during his short visit to Ajmer and Jaipur, where External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid hosted lunch for him but no bilateral issue including terrorism was discussed. ...
06:32 PM, Mar 09, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday conveyed to the top Bangladesh leadership India's commitment to an early conclusion of Teesta river water-sharing deal and implementing the land boundary agreement as he sought to give a substantive content to bilateral ties on his maiden overseas visit since assuming the top constitutional post in 2012. ...
01:06 AM, Mar 04, 2013
Bangladesh rolled out the red carpet for President Pranab Mukherjee who arrived at Bangladesh on Sunday for a three-day state visit but his tour came under a shadow as opposition leader Khaleda Zia cancelled her meeting with him amidst a general strike by Jamaat-e-Islami to protest conviction of its three top leaders for 1971 war crimes. ...
11:07 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Maharashtra is facing one of its worst droughts in the last four decades. But the Congress remains unfazed, as it pulled out all the stops for a red-carpet welcome to party Vice President Rahul Gandhi during his day-long trip to Mumbai. ...
07:40 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Oddly, nothing in the form of a biography has been written before about Bengal's most memorable actor, Uttam Kumar, in English. Veteran film critic Swapan Mullick's 'Mahanayak Revisited' goes behind the professional life and public face of Bengal's most idolized actor to reveal little-known details of the stars unconscious power in the film industry for more than thirty years,the dazzling achievements dampened by dud disappointments, the aberrations attendant on a...
04:56 PM, Feb 22, 2013
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is trying his best to woo India by rekindling a 'special relationship' between the UK and India. CNN-IBN's chief diplomatic correspondent Paarull joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on how India could benefit from this. ...
06:28 PM, Feb 19, 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi on Tuesday. Cameron, who is on a three-day trip to India, was in Mumbai on Monday. Defence deals, education ties and further ways to counter-terrorism are high on the agenda for the meeting between the two prime ministers. ...
10:54 AM, Feb 19, 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday began his India visit seeking a "special relationship" between the two countries, saying it is "about the future and not the past" for which sky is the limit. ...
04:25 PM, Feb 18, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid met the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday as part of the two-day official visit to the neighbouring nation. India and Bangladesh reviewed a range of bilateral issues at the second Joint Consultative Commission meeting. ...
02:50 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Arriving in India within days of exposure of the Rs 3,600-crore VVIP helicopters scam involving Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland, UK Prime Minister David Cameron is likely to be pressed for more information in this regard during his meetings with the leadership on Tuesday. The helicopters, three of which have already been delivered in India, are manufactured in southwest England. ...
11:15 AM, Feb 17, 2013
French President Francois Hollande on Friday said French companies are willing to invest up to $1 billion in India, but asked New Delhi to take necessary steps to open up the market by removing obstacles. "There are always obstacles to opening markets," Hollande said addressing industry leaders in the financial capital this evening but clarified he is not meddling in the political affairs of this country. ...
09:40 AM, Feb 16, 2013
