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New Delhi, July 7
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stopped over in Tehran en route to Moscow and handed over a personal message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to President-elect of Iran Ebrahim Raisi.
“Appreciate his warm sentiments for India. Deeply value his strong commitment to strengthen our bilateral ties and expand cooperation on regional and global issues,” he said after the meeting.
At the Iranian Foreign Office, Jaishankar met Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and discussed bilateral relations and regional developments, according to the Iranian Embassy here.
Jaishankar stopped in Tehran en route to Moscow for a meeting with his counterpart Sergei Lavrov that would also be devoted to discussing the developments in Afghanistan, where the Taliban has been making military gains against the US-backed government in Kabul.
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Maroof Raza
Strategic Affairs Analyst
There comes a time when discussions must end, and actions must be taken, based on what can be done at best. No other organisation knows this better, at least in India, than the armed forces. Therefore, it must have come as a surprise to most Indians especially our political elite when the CDS, General Bipin Rawat, and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, publicly aired their different opinions about the role of the IAF. The essential point of departure in the views of the two senior military men was about the role of the IAF in future conflicts and in the evolving concept of theatre commands.
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MANGALURU: While serpentine queues in front of private schools was a common sight during admissions earlier, it is different this year.
Private schools are losing out on admissions as parents, who wish to enroll their wards for Class 1, are waiting for fee issue to be resolved in the court. The government schools continue to have normal admissions.
Dakshina Kannada DDPI Malleswamy said the government directed schools to collect 70% tuition fee for 2019-2020 and adjust the amount next year if parents paid it in full. The decision for this year is still pending and the high court may decide the same in its next hearing on July 22. “As a result, many parents have adopted a wait and watch policy,” said Malleswamy. The academic year started with admission from June 15 and the last date is August 31.
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On July 9, 1971, US secretary of state Henry Kissinger arrived in Peking for a secret meeting with Chinese premier Zhou Enlai. This was at the height of the Cold War against the Soviet Union, and the US saw an opportunity to entice communist China into its fold. A highlight of Kissinger’s successful visit was a book that Zhou gifted him. It was called ‘India’s China War’ by Neville Maxwell. Impressed, Kissinger told Zhou, “Reading that book showed me I could do business with you people.” A few months later when India and Pakistan went to war, President Richard Nixon and Kissinger’s sympathetic view on China, a Pakistani ally, was influenced by Maxwell’s book which blamed India for the 1962 India-China war.