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(FILES) - Picture taken on April 13, 2015 shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) touching the collaborative dual-arm robot YuMi next to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (2ndR) at the Swiss automation group ABB booth during the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in Hanover, central Germany on April 13, 2015. India is the partner country of this year's trade fair running until. Collaborative robots and intelligent machinery may have wowed the crowds at this year's Hannover Messe, but experts see German industry as having some way to go towards incorporating them on factory floors in what could become the fourth industrial revolution. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ

Links with the West

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-nation tour has been significant, with a rich haul of agreements signed, understandings reached, and diverse cons

Nay Pyi Taw: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the leaders from the Asia-Pacific region at a group photo session during the 9th East Asia Summit at Nay Pyi Taw in Myanmar on Thursday. PTI Photo (PTI11_13_2014_000028B)

Eastward ho!

The planners of the Prime Minister’s journey to East Asia in November scored high in terms of making the optimal use of his presence in the region. Th

A mine worker directs trucks carrying ore from a quarry at Metorex's Ruashi copper mine, near Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday, Feb. 8, 2008. Metorex Ltd., which mines copper in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, said first-half earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization rose as high as 600 million rand ($80.2 million). Photographer: Naashon Zalk/Bloomberg News

A plan for partnership

Ways in which India can contribute to and benefit from Africa’s economic and political resurgence.

African National Congress (ANC) vice-president, Nelson Mandela, addresses a capacity crowd at a rally in Port Elizabeth in this April 1, 1990 file photo. Mandela has passed away on December 5, 2013 at the age of 95. REUTERS/Juda Ngwenya/Files (SOUTH AFRICA - POLITICS OBITUARY)

Light of Africa

The nine-decade-long walk, on which he had taken an entire country along with him to freedom, has come to an end. South Africa, and the world, will mi

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (left) and India Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (centre) stand together on the platform during a Soviet-Indian Friendship Rally in Moscow on September 08, 1961.
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Reworking old ties

The Track II expert-level dialogue between Russia and India is marked by realism rather than nostalgia about Soviet-era ties. Both sides agree that ge

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