As part of the policy of focus on Latin America, the Minister of State for External Affairs, Rao Inderjit Singh, will be visiting Honduras, Suriname and Mexico from 10 to 18 February, 2005.

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The President of Italy H.E., Mr. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi accompanied by his wife Mrs. Franca Ciampi will pay a State Visit to India from 12-16 February 2005. He will be accompanied Mr. Gianfranco Fini, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Antonio Marzano, Minister for Productive Activities, Mr. Giuliano Urbani, Minister for Culture, Ms. Letizia Moratti, Minister for Education, University and Education, Mrs. Margherita, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and a high-level business and media delegation.

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Mumbai: Marking a milestone in the Indian art auction scene, V S Gaitonde's untitled abstract work fetched a whopping Rs 92 lakh, making it the first Indian contemporary painting sold for that price in India, at a public auction.

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NEW DELHI: Davos and top-secret debriefings, drawing rooms and dining-tables..., wherever you go, everyone's talking about India versus China. But while all the attention is on the competition between the two, dramatic strides in cooperation have gone largely unnoticed.

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MUMBAI: So it's blue after Black! Even as the nation swoons at the new threshold of excellence created by Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film, the turnstiles get ready for titillation this week with Sheesha and Chahat Ek Nasha .

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India and The Russian Federation held Bilateral Consultations on Strategic Stability and Disarmament in New Delhi on January 28, 2005.

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GALLE, Sri Lanka -- Earlier this month, the USS Bonhomme Richard, a Navy helicopter carrier, was steaming toward Sri Lanka to augment U.S. forces helping survivors of the Dec. 26 tsunami when it suddenly changed course for Indonesia. Additional U.S. troops were no longer needed in Sri Lanka, because the Indian military had been dispatched to help.

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India has been rated among the top five tourist destinations by the annual Lonely Planet Pulse Survey.

Australia was rated as the top global destination in the survey that polled nearly 20,000 respondents from over 167 countries. After Australia, the most desired destinations to visit in the future were Chile, Brazil, New Zealand and India.

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Words don't come easy to this shy guy. For a sport that desperately needs the glamour and the glitz, he is its ambassador who is curiously inhibited by the media glare. He is far from resembling a hero in 'The Man of La Mancha' but, amazingly, India's motor racing ace Narain Karthikeyan is about to dream the impossible dream as he is moments away from creating history by becoming the first Indian to zoom into the high-octane world of Formula 1.

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The Government of India have been carefully monitoring recent political developments in Iraq. It has been our view that the restoration of full sovereignty to the Iraqi people is a necessary pre-condition for peace and stability in that country. In that context, the holding of elections in Iraq on January 30, 2005 is a noteworthy development. Preliminary reports about the turnout of voters are encouraging. We hope that these events would set in motion a process that would lead the Iraqi people taking full control of their destiny.

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