Raisina Dialogue LIVE Updates: Countries are free to choose their allies, partners: Rastislav Kacer

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Justin Bassi: As globalisation sped through the Cold War, interconnectedness was celebrated

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Govt not in 'crazy rush' to sell everything: FM Sitharaman

The government is not in a "crazy rush" to sell everything and it will continue to have a presence in four strategic sectors, including telecom, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday.

In strategic sectors, a bare minimum presence of the existing public sector commercial enterprises at the holding company level will be retained under government control. The remaining enterprises in a strategic sector will be considered for privatisation or merger with another PSE or for closure.

Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue, the minister said that the country will have government-owned professionally run companies in four broad strategic sectors.

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Australia's former PM calls PM Modi, Shinzo Abe "fathers" of Quad

Calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe "fathers" of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, Australia's ex-PM Tony Abbott, on Saturday, said that the Quad is almost a unique product and the "world should be immensely grateful to both of them." 

While talking to ANI, Abbott said that Quad is the most important strategic development in the world since the formation of NATO. He further said that Shinzo Abe and Narendra Modi are the only Asian leaders who could have initiated the Quad.

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Currencies of Power and Persuasion: Reflections on the Future

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Capacity building programmes, disaster relief operations, vaccine diplomacy reflection of our commitment for global welfare: Rajkumar Singh

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Our world is undergoing a seismic transformation: Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh

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Importance of 3SI is more evident than ever as it strengthens the resilience of EU: Radman

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India is the destination for businesses, several ministers of G20 countries have spoken of  friend-shoring: Sitharaman

Noting that India is the destination for businesses, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the country has the right combination of factors that matter for a growing economy including a middle class, captive market with purchasing power, technology-driven public investment and products, digital infrastructure and rule of law. 

In her remarks during an interaction at the Raisina Dialogue here, Sitharman also said that there is no sector in India that is not available for the private sector and rejected opposition criticism that government is on a selling spree of public assets.

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Amitabh Kant: Many countries can learn from the success of India’s digital payments

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Amitabh Kant: Digital leapfrogging for India has been enormous

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Amitabh Kant: Digital payments have truly transformed India

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The Android Dream: A Collaborative Approach to Building Digital Public Infrastructure

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There is a rule of law in India, business heads don’t disappear overnight: FM Sitharaman

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman took cheeky potshots on Saturday at China (without naming the country, of course) while explaining why India is the global destination for businesses and why the optimism surrounding the country even amid a bleak global outlook, isn’t misplaced.

On being asked by Ashok Malik, a former advisor to India’s ministry of external affairs and now country head of The Asia Group — a business advisory firm – on what makes India confident that it can stem the tide and be the hinge on which global growth hinges, the finance minister was quick to point out that India has “the right combination of things that help in economic growth. Youth, a burgeoning middle class that has purchasing power and provides a captive market, technology-driven public investment, public infrastructure in the digital world, and an understated fact: rule of law.”

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Rastislav Kacer: Countries are free to choose their allies, partners

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Huge scope for corporations, especially amongst democratic nations like India: Wtadystaw Bartoszewski

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EU is trying to establish a realistic approach with the Indo-Pacific region and India is the key element and key partner in that: Dr. Gunda Reire

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The war has had extraordinary consequences on the world, says Shashi Tharoor

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India, in its own way, is pushing for a solution, says Shashi Tharoor

Tharoor stated that India is pushing for a solution to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He also added that the longer the war goes on, Russia’s capacity to be a reliant supplier will be degraded. 

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Theresa Fallon: Central and Eastern Europeans are the lighthouse in the crisis in Ukraine

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Eastern Promise: The Power Shifts in EU Politics

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India was blessed for having initiated a series of transformational events ten years back, that ultimately held us in good stead during the pandemic: Piyush Goyal

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India, Armenia's relationship developing fast: Dy Foreign Minister Safaryan

Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safaryan, on Saturday, said that India and Armenia's relationships are developing fast and both nations could achieve more in terms of trade, economy, investment, culture and tourism. 

While talking to ANI, Safaryan said, "Since last year, we've been trying to take our relations to the next level. For the past 30 years relations between India and Armenia developing very fast. We could achieve more in terms of trade, economy, investment, culture & tourism."

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India doesn't think of itself alone: Piyush Goyal on food security

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Leveraging BRICS in times of economic uncertainty

Increased #investment and support across #BRICS can be an incisive way to leverage it and serve as a counterpoint to Bretton Woods orthodoxy.

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Our vision is to realise free and open Indo-Pacific: Gen Koji Yamazaki

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EAM Dr S Jaishankar and Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister MUM Ali Sabry meet in Delhi

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China is a huge player in the European economy, says Carl Bildt

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The Strategic Poser: Dragon’s Manoeuver in the Taiwan Strait

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Raisina Dialogue 2023: MoS Meenakashi Lekhi pitches for 'reforming multilateralism'

Highlighting the importance of multilateralism in the context of changing geopolitics at the ongoing 8th Raisina Dialogue, Minister of State for External Affairs, Meenakshi Lekhi on Saturday said, “India would work towards reforming multilateralism. There is a better methodology in resolving conflicts and not letting them happen in the first place in the interest of maintaining social order.”

“India has taken upon itself the task of being the voice for the voiceless, and the reform in multilateralism has to be the way forward because in its current form, it has failed to address key issues,” she said, adding that the prevailing global scenario calls for a relook at the method and the manner in which things have happened or have not been dealt with,” Lekhi said.

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"They don't follow what western or eastern countries want": Saudi analyst lauds India's foreign policy

Hailing India's independent foreign policy, a researcher and political analyst from Saudi Arabia said he admired how New Delhi holds its national interests as paramount and does not yield to pressure from the western or eastern powers when it comes to shaping its external affairs policies. 

"One of the things I would love to mention is the thing that I admire the most with regards to the new face of the external affairs policies of India,. It is the fact that they don't follow what the western or eastern countries want and that's something that has been encouraged definitely by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia because we believe and practise sovereignty as any other free country does," said Salman Al- Ansari in an interview with ANI on Friday.

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Relation between Arabs, Indians important for global peace, says Salman Al –Ansari

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Arabs & Indians' work contributes to humanity, says Salman Al –Ansari

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Anna Stellinger: There is fantastic untapped potential between India and EU in trade sector

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"We always look to cooperate and work together in maritime domain," Indian Navy Chief 

Highlighting the ever-changing technology in the field of modern warfare, Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar on Saturday underscored the importance of cooperation and working together in the maritime domain. 

Speaking at a panel discussion on 'The future of conflict: Lessons from the Third Decade' at Delhi: Raisina Dialogue 2023, the Navy said, "In the maritime domain, challenges are not traditional or non-traditional. It is a problem for all of us. We always look to cooperate and work together in the maritime domain."

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New Frontiers: Linking India, Europe and the World

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Modi government will protect the Fundamental Rights of Indian citizens while ensuring that the Internet remains safe and trusted

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Angus Topshee: History teaches us that communication is of key importance

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Gen. Koji Yamazaki: Outerspace, cyber and electromagnetic domains are the new domains that we are looking at for future conflicts

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Bec Shrimpton: Reflecting on last decades is important to understand the next decades

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Adm. R Hari Kumar: In the maritime domain, challenges are trans-national in nature

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The Future of Conflict: Lessons from the Third Decade

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Brutal Russian aggression in Ukraine has affected the whole world, says Tanja Fajon

Falon,  Dy PM and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovenia, added that she supports all efforts that can bring together all sides to start negotiations for peace. 

India has to play the role of the country that protects the basic rules of solidarity & democracy in the world, she stated.

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Where is India? 

"I am truly surprised by the fact that India, which has been such a great supporter of Afghanistan in the past, has had such a close relationship with the Afghans and help build the nation, has been completely missing from the scene as our nation suffers," said a visibly emotional Mahbouba Seraj, a journalist from Afghanistan, at a late-night Raisina Dialogue session called 'From Karachi to Kandahar, Is The Act Of Terror Aflame Again'?." Where is India? Why isn't it coming to our support? Why are Indians staying away and not helping us?" asked the 74-year-old women's rights activist. According to her, Pakistan's travails with terror at the hands of TTP is the just reward for Islamabad for persisting with policies that it did. 

reports Sreemoy Talukdar

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Ocean of crowd at Raisina 

Having been to the Raisina Dialogue before, I've never come across such a sea of humanity at the venue. It is evident that Raisina Dialogue, India's flagship conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics hosted by the ORF in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs, has grown in stature and scale. It is also evident that reined in by the pandemic for too long, people cannot have enough of meeting, conversing, and engaging with each other, face to face, the way communication was meant to be. Taj Palace in New Delhi, the venue, is so chock-full with ministers, diplomats, scholars, delegates and media from the world over that every chair in the lobby is taken, cafés, and restaurants are full and unless you manage to squeeze into the banquet halls, that are hosting the sessions, well in advance, you'll have to either give that session a miss or stand at the very back like a kid who has been punished for unruly behaviour. Organisers can't be faulted, simply because there are too many people, everywhere. In a way, it's good to see normalcy return. May it stay this way. 

reports Sreemoy Talukdar

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Freedom is hard-earned and can be lost with the rise of populism, says Frank Müller-Rosentritt

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Mihoko Matsubara: We must communicate freely to help businesses, economies, countries

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Leslie Miller: Organisations like YouTube are responsible to assess and understand the value of free expression

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Kris Lovejoy: Data and digital sovereignty frameworks must be developed carefully to prioritise and protect the citizens’ rights of privacy

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Democracy’s Eleven: Protecting our Technology Futures

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Cost of financing must be brought down, especially for middle-income countries, says Dr Vera Songwe

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Time has come to increase non-sovereign lending, says Philippe Orliange

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External financing should primarily provide support to the domestic financial sector of the recipient country, says Philippe Orliange

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Navigating a Debt Crisis: Towards a New Development Partnership Agenda

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India’s position physically, metaphorically and symbolically has been the bridge between the Global North and South, says Meenakashi Lekhi

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Raisina Dialogue brings the entire perspective to the table, says Meenakashi Lekhi

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Relationship of the UNSC with the UNGA needs to be redefined, says Lakshmi M Puri

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Small countries ... should be honest participants in the international multilateral system, says Mnatsakan Safaryan

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We have binding international law, says Ivan Korcok

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Significance of the Raisina Dialogue in the middle of India's G20 presidency explained

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Jaishankar discusses G20 agenda, global developments with Canadian counterpart Joly

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday called on the Foreign minister of Canada, Melanie Joly, and held discussions on the G20 agenda and global developments.

"Wide-ranging conversation with FM @melaniejoly of Canada. Discussed the G20 agenda and global developments. Bilateral issues including trade, connectivity and people-to-people ties," tweeted Jaishankar.

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Peace In Pieces: New Pathways For a UN That Works