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A hundred member Indian youth delegation led by Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports M S Gill will visit China as part of a bilateral initiative to further the ties between youths.

The new channels can be broadly classified into two categories –– lifestyle and news & current affairs. BBC, Discovery and Fox will bring channels on lifestyle, while media houses from Canada, the US, the UK, France and Japan will come up with news and current affairs channels.

In an effort to build understanding between cultures, The Handshake Concert is a creative initiative in ‘Music Diplomacy’ to celebrate friendship and culture. Well-known musicians such as Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Lama Tashi, Cultural Vibrants, OFF, Nise Meruno, Asin Shurhozelie, Tetseo Sisters, Medusa and Soulmate will be performing at The Handshake Concert in New Delhi on World Music Day on June 21.

June 15, 2010

Any development in the relations between India and the United States of America is preceded by great hype. This has been the pattern ever since Bill Clinton’s visit to India as president, the first such visit of a US president in decades. It is hardly surprising then that the recently concluded first strategic dialogue between the two countries should generate great expectations.

June 15, 2010

The recently-concluded US-India Strategic Dialogue in Washington is yet another step towards the enlarging relationship between the two nations. The talks were comprehensive and not specific in nature, with both the sides debating and discussing on a range of bilateral and global issues of concern

India has said that, for bridging the "trust deficit" with Pakistan, it was ready to address all issues of mutual concern through dialogue and peaceful negotiations and called for "creative solutions" to solve the problems that have bedevilled the bilateral relationship for decades.

June 10, 2010

Now it is India’s turn to complain that Obama is too much the Pacific president and not enough the Indian Ocean president. Whereas the Indian government is not officially complaining, what might be called the Indian foreign policy establishment of business leaders, strategic thinkers, journalists and former diplomats are.

It is clear that both India and the US need each other more than anytime in the past. It is clear that US needs India as a partner in the increasingly Post-American World and India would be quite happy to accept a world dominated by American hegemony rather than the one dominated by China.

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