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India-Africa Project Partnership: 9th CII- EXIM BANK Conclave March 17 - 19, New Delhi

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India's hour in Africa

By Rajiv Bhatia

Higher political visibility will help accelerate its drive into the continent.

India seems to be getting it right when it comes to the fight against HiV/Aids: infection rates have dipped by half over the last decade and we have also realised the advantages of working with affected communities.

India acts maturely vis-�-vis rattled Pakistan

By Amulya Ganguli

India's readiness to continue talking with Pakistan despite the "sensational" event of Osama bin Laden's death is open to several interpretations. One is that since the Al Qaeda leader's presence in Pakistan has put a final seal on its longstanding reputation as an "epicentre of terror", India probably feels that its own case has been bolstered so much that it can afford to be forgiving about its neighbour's criminal transgressions.

India's 300 mn mobile phone 'ghosts'

By Prasanto K. Roy

A few days ago, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the industry watchdog, said the country's mobile phone subscriber base had reached an astounding 812 million, adding 20 million new connections in March. That should have been quite a milestone -- going past the 800-million mark and inching toward 70 percent tele-density.

BRICS set to outshine IBSA?

By Rajiv Bhatia

When BRICS speaks, its views are bound to receive much greater notice than those of IBSA. If IBSA does not become stronger, it will become irrelevant.

Did India grow faster than China in 2010?

By Chidanand Rajghatta

The intense debate about whether lumbering India can overtake China's red hot economy has been fed more fuel with The Economist suggesting that it may already have happened in 2010 "without anyone as much as noticing".

The Hazare movement: Making India a true beacon of democracy

By Sudip Mazumdar

As Indians rise in protest and rally around Anna Hazare's crusade against corruption, the corrupt and the opportunist are looking for cover. The swelling resolve to birth a movement that would usher in real democracy with transparency and accountability as hallmarks is slowly assuming unprecedented levels. (Anna hazare is a social activist from India).

EXPERIMENTS WITH GANDHI

Everybody has their own idea of Gandhi who may be more relevant today than ever before. So why all the fuss about a book?

India-Pak semi-final: Manmohan Singh's cricket diplomacy may prove the winner

By C Uday Bhaskar

Metonymy is not the kind of word one would use in a newspaper column, much less for the frenzy that has enveloped Mohali - where cricket fervor peaked for the India-Pakistan World Cup semifinal encounter.. Across the urban landscape of the sub-continent, as the night advanced, one could follow the fortunes of the two opposing teams by the sheer shift in the decibel level of millions of spectators glued to television.

Is revolution possible in a Shellfare society?

By P.P. Balachandran

The ongoing Arab revolution may not, after all, rain on the Gulf region the way it has in Egypt and Tunisia. The clouds are hanging heavy all right on at least two of them -- Bahrain and Kuwait; but most likely, the torrent currently lashing Libya will pass over the oil-rich Gulf. Not because its political soil is not ready for a violent downpour, but because the Gulf, unlike its behemoth neighbours, has a different political and economic rationale.