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US asks India to step-up training of Afghan national army
4 hours ago ago from 8ak - Indian Defence News
09 Dec 2009 8ak: US government has asked India to step-up the pace of training being rendered to Afghan military personnel. While the immediate attention is on training them to tackle internal security threats the U.S. also needs them to continue fighting the Taliban once the International forces exit as per Obama's stated withdrawal in 18 months. The US and the coalition in Afghanistan are all interested in Afghanistan succeeding, ...
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6 hours ago ago from Rehmat\'s World
India's Arundhati Roy (born 1961) is a woman of many talents. She is an author, columnist, actress, and human right activists. However, one thing which makes her unique hates to apologize for the genocide of India's top Muslim minority (150 million) carried out by the Hindutva religious facists under the protection of Indian government and its law enforcement agencies. In her latest book, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on ...
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17 hours ago ago from LOATAY.COM - Pakistani News and Pakistani Loatay+Indian News and Indian Loatay.
New Delhi, Dec 8, India and the US are near to settling differences over certain contentious regulations of the US Energy Department, which sought nonproliferation assurance from New Delhi to take forward the civil nuclear trade. We are quite hopeful of discussions being completed and that authorisation (for nuclear trade) will be obtained fairly soon, said Timothy Richards, co-chair of the USIBC-CII Joint Task Force on Commercial ...
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17 hours ago ago from Quick Take - As It Happens
Chief of Army Staff Gen Deepak Kapoor has said that there are still 42 terror camps operating across the border in Pakistan in which 2000 to 2500 terrorists are still waiting to infiltrate into Indian side. (via 42 terror camps still active in Pakistan: Army chief- Hindustan Times ). Such cross-border firings did come down for some time after the two countries agreed to a ceasefire along the 198-km International Border in J&K, the 778-km ...
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16 hours ago ago from NYRblog
Pankaj Mishra Indian policemen standing guard after a grenade attack by suspected militants in Srinagar, Kashmir, October 6, 2009 (Yawar Nazir/Getty Images) Obama’s long speech on Afghanistan did not refer even once to India or Kashmir. Yet India has a large and growing presence in Afghanistan, and impoverished young Pakistanis, such as those who led the terrorist attack on Mumbai last November, continue to be indoctrinated by ...
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U.S.-India Business Council Board Elects Steven Wisch to Board of Directors
20 hours ago ago from Good News Now
The U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) announced today the election of Steven Wisch, Founder & Managing Director of IREO and India Equity Partners (IEP) , to its Board of Directors. As a board member, Wisch will help the USIBC provide strategic direction for U.S. and Indian companies seeking bilateral investment opportunities and partnerships. “With the clouds of the global recession receding, and as India’s real estate sector emerges, the ...
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