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Saturday, November 2, 2024
TopicMamallapuram

Topic: Mamallapuram

All the PM’s interpreters — the select IFS officers who translate and keep many secrets

The role of interpreters has taken on new meaning under PM Modi who is looking to forge personal chemistry with leaders via informal summits.

From Wuhan spirit to Chennai vision, Modi-Xi agree differences shouldn’t dominate discourse

Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale says PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to create a separate mechanism on trade, investment and services.

India isn’t China’s economic or military equal but Mamallapuram lets Modi stand as tall as Xi

Wearing a crisp white Tamil veshti and a cream angavastram, Modi played the storyteller to the visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping.

What can Modi-Xi agree on to call their Mamallapuram meeting a success?

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have a one-on-one meeting Saturday morning in the temple town of Mamallapuram.

Mamallapuram ‘informal’ summit set to begin, Modi & Xi to discuss trade, border and Kashmir

The resort town of Mamallapuram has been turned into a fortress for the Modi-Xi summit. India & China will discuss issues that have come up since Wuhan.

Modi & Xi don’t need to sign a dozen trade pacts to make second informal summit a success

The two popular leaders will have to seriously work towards assuring their constituencies that it is imperative to keep the region free of crises.

Modi and Xi are unequal leaders who won’t tango in Mamallapuram but size each other up

There is virtually no comparison between the economic strength of India and China. And yet, Modi is employing all his resources to stand eyeball-to-eyeball with Xi.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.