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Blog entry | December 22, 2011 - 10:55am

“As long as minorities are loyal to the State and owe true allegiance and as long as I have any power, they need have no apprehension of any kind.” These are the words of Quaid-e- Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The tragedy is that he left this world just a year after the establishment of Pakistan and since then, there has not been a...

Article | December 17, 2011 - 9:28am

Ten years ago, the tobacco industry was formally identified as the enemy. The World Health Assembly approved a resolution stating that cigarette makers have operated with “the express intention of subverting the role of governments” in implementing policies designed to reduce cancer deaths.

Article | December 16, 2011 - 10:28am

The first results of the EU's Gender Action Plan were presented and show that it is already helping to improve the EU's work on closing the gender gap.

Article | December 13, 2011 - 1:58pm

On 13 December, the European Parliament endosed the plan under which the international nuclear fusion research project ITER will receive €1.3 billion from the EU budget for 2012 and 2013.

Article | November 23, 2011 - 12:29pm

Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes will be visiting India from 23-25 November to strengthen information and communication technology (ICT) links.

Article | November 21, 2011 - 11:28am

India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has assured bankers that India's exposure to the EU debt is very limited and that the financial system remained well-capitalised.

Article | November 17, 2011 - 12:54pm

The EU, the US and Japan pushed strongly for an international agreement which should further boost the introduction of electrical cars. The agreement was signed on 17 November in Geneva, Switzerland.

Blog entry | October 24, 2011 - 5:45pm

Even in an age of 24-hour globalised news, some important events only come to light well after the fact. Something of this sort happened several months ago in the South China Sea – and may shape how relations between the world’s two most populous countries, China and India, develop in the years ahead.

Article | October 19, 2011 - 2:17pm

India’s Vice President Hamid Ansari and his accompanying delegation of businessmen recently paid a visit to Turkey to expand the relationship with Turkey and had separate meetings with Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek.

Blog entry | October 15, 2011 - 12:50pm

The 7 September bomb blast at the entrance to the High Court in New Delhi was a macabre finale to a summer of crisis. Previously, weeks of anti-corruption protests launched by Anna Harare, and supported by the country’s rising middle class, had brought India’s government to a virtual standstill. This was followed by an...

Article | October 4, 2011 - 3:34pm



Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik defends the extension of the EU's emission tradign system to include all entering or departing flights.

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