Riyadh, March 1 (IANS) India will grow at the rate of 9 to 10 percent for the next 25 years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Monday.
“Despite the economic slowdown, we hope to achieve a growth rate of 7.5 percent in the current financial year,” the economist-turned-prime minister told the Majlis-ash-Shura, the Saudi parliament.
“In the [...]
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Riyadh, Mar. 1 (ANI): In what is a clear reflection of an emerging strategic partnership, visiting Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, and Saudi Arabian monarch King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz signed the historic Riyadh Declaration at Grandoise Al Rawdah Palace on Sunday.
Before the event, the Indian Prime Minister was formally recieved by King Abdullah [...]
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By Aroonim Bhuyan
Riyadh, March 1 (IANS) India and Saudi Arabia signed the Riyadh Declaration late Sunday night to put their seal of approval on rapidly growing ties that are moving towards a strategic partnership covering security, economic, defence, technology and political areas and including joint combat of terrorism.
The ‘Riyadh Declaration – A New Era of [...]
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By Aroonim Bhuyan
Riyadh, March 1 (IANS) India and Saudi Arabia late Sunday signed Riyadh Declaration to cement ties and to raise bilateral cooperation to a strategic partnership covering security, economic, defence and political areas.
The ‘Riyadh Declaration – A New Era of Strategic Partnership’ was signed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Saudi Arabia’s King [...]
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By Aroonim Bhuyan
Riyadh, March 1 (IANS) India and Saudi Arabia signed a new Riyadh Declaration here Sunday, the second day of the three-day visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to this Islamic Kingdom.
The ‘Riyadh Declaration – A New Era of Strategic Partnership’ was signed by the prime minister and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Bin Abdul [...]
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By Aroonim Bhuyan
Riyadh, Feb 28 (IANS) India and Saudi Arabia Sunday agreed that despite growing bilateral trade there was still a vast area of investment still to be tapped.
“On the economic and commercial side, both sides expressed happiness that our trade is growing and we are now at $26-billon two-way trade,” Latha Reddy, secretary (east) [...]
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By Naveen Kapoor
Riyadh, Feb.28 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, presently undertaking a three-day State visit to Saudi Arabia, on Sunday said that despite the global economic slowdown India will achieve over seven percent growth rate in the current financial year and will get back to nine percent growth rate in next two years.
Addressing the council [...]
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Riyadh, Feb 28 (IANS) India sees Saudi Arabia as a “valuable interlocutor” in relation to Pakistan, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Sunday said. After his remark sparked a storm, he clarified he was not making Riyadh a mediator on India-Pakistan issues.
Not convinced, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, [...]
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Riyadh, Feb 28 (ANI): Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Sunday clarified that he did not mean that Saudi Arabia should be a mediator between India and Pakistan.
Earlier in the day, Tharoor reportedly said that Saudi Arabia could be a “valuable interlocutor” between India and Pakistan.
Tharoor, who is accompanying Prime Minister [...]
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By Aroonim Bhuyan
Riyadh, Feb 28 (IANS) The role of emerging economies like India and Saudi Arabia would be crucial to the restructuring of the global economic and financial architecture, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
“The integration of our economies with the rest of the world has created new opportunities but also brought new challenges,” the prime [...]
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