Official Spokesperson: Good evening. US Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice is arriving in New Delhi later this evening. There is full coverage at the airport. The programme tomorrow is that there will be a restricted delegation meeting with the External Affairs Minister at Hyderabad House at 9.45 am. This will be followed by a joint press interaction. Thereafter she has a meeting with the Leader of Opposition Shri L.K. Advani. There is a call on the Prime Minister. There is a lunch hosted by the External Affairs Minister and thereafter she leaves for Islamabad.

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We are pleased to welcome Dr. Rice to India. This is her first visit, and first visit by a Cabinet member in the second term of the Bush Administration. We view her as a friend of India who led the fashioning of a new policy in the first term. I look forward to working with her and taking Indo-US relations to even higher level and more frequently … and we will continue our discussions during lunch.

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NEW DELHI: PM Manmohan Singh on Monday projected an economic growth of 7-8 per cent in the financial year ending March 2006 but admitted that infrastructure is a critical bottleneck.

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22 March, 2005 by ashok

Pakistan is to import 400 tonnes of onions from India to overcome a shortage in domestic markets and to bring down prices.

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Mar 21, 2005
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Dubai, Mar 21 (PTI) India's participation for the first time at the Arab Summit in the Algerian capital Algiers is a "historic event," the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al Faizal has said.

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H.E. Mr. Hugo Chavez Frias, President of Venezuela, will make a State Visit to India from 4 to7 March 2005. This is the first-ever State Visit by a President of Venezuela to India. The President will be accompanied by Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Light Industry & Commerce, Science & Technology, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Health and Information & Communications. The President will visit Kolkata and Bangalore besides New Delhi.

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THE FINANCIAL TIMES
08/03/2005

India has broadened its quest for long-term energy security with an agreement to explore and develop oil projects in Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil producer.

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New Delhi, March 9. (PTI):India indicated that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would be visiting the country to witness one of the matches in the current Indo-Pak cricket series. "It is a friendly visit...Every visit does not have to become state visit," Prime Minister Media Advisor Sanjaya Baru said today.

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