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India seeking to tie up drone deal with US before Obama goes
05 Oct 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy statements have raised questions in India and other Asian nations about a US pullback from Asia
US deplores nuclear sabre-rattling by Pakistan
01 Oct 2016
Pak’s efforts to rope in UN over surgical strikes falling flat: India
01 Oct 2016
India has said that Pakistan approaching the United Nations on the issue of surgical strikes by the Indian Army across the Line of Control has not found any resonance in the world body
China is India’s primary security challenge: UK think-tank
29 Sep 2016
While India's ''primary security challenge'' is the terrorism from Pakistan, an annual strategic survey by an influential London-based think-tank says the major security threat to India emanates from China
Pathankot on terror alert, combing operations on
28 Sep 2016
India weighs sanctions on Pakistan as part of Uri response
27 Sep 2016
The first casualty under trade action could be cement and India may decide to end duty-free import of cement from Pakistan
PM meets Services chiefs to discuss Uri response
24 Sep 2016
The prime minister is expected to spell out the government’s response to the Uri terror attack later in the day when he addresses a party conclave in Kozhikode, Kerala
India, France finally ink deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets
23 Sep 2016
The contract signed by defence minister Manohar Parrikar and his French counterpart Jean Yves LeDrian ‘marks the natural culmination of the relationship initiated in 1953 when India became Dassault Aviation’s first export customer’, the company said
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