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UAE’s minister of economy writes: UAE-India CEPA promoted a favourable environment for startups to thrive in both countries
Shaped by millennia-old journeys of cultural and economic engagement on the Indian Ocean’s network of exchange, the India-UAE…
Keep off or risk quake, says Assad
Damascus, Oct. 30: Syria???s President, Bashar al-Assad, has warned that Western action against his country would cause an ???earthquake???…
US-RUSSIA RELATIONS & WEST ASIAN CRISES
Considering the rising clout of Putin-led Russia and the American folly in Syria and Iraq, it is unlikely…
Pratibha in Syria, to focus on economic ties and investment
After concluding a five-day goodwill tour of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, President Pratibha Patil touched down at…
The Syrian ceasefire is a risky and fragile gamble
A tenuous ceasefire came into effect beginning midnight Damascus time on February 27, 2016. The ceasefire was facilitated…
‘Israel Is Quickly Becoming A Pariah State’
Richard Anderson Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and former UN ???Special Rapporteur??? on human…
Turkey is now Acting Independently of the U.S. and NATO on Syria
Turkey is now Acting Independently of the U.S. and NATO on Syria Out of the ???Moscow Declaration??? comes…
Non-mention of Kashmir in declaration welcome
The latest declaration of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) comes as a big boost to India’s persistent…
Inside Syria’s failed rebellion
Thick black lines had been scored over the graffiti under the cherubic image of President Bashar al-Assad that…
Retardation And Religion
Imagine a 7th century Arab Bedouin village being replicated in north Malabar in verdant Kerala, with its linguistically…