“Terrorist groups have enormously increased their capabilities by acquiring new and cutting-edge technologies, including drones and unmanned aircraft systems with cameras”, she said. 

New Delhi, which has historically had close diplomatic and strategic ties with Moscow, is forging an independent path open to the West giving it room to be a conduit between the two countries for peace diplomacy.

The Cold War had some rules, but today “we are in a purgatory of polarity” where the world has not reached a state of multi-polarity and “more and more countries are filling the spaces of geopolitical divides, doing whatever they want with no accountability”’

There are 108,000 hotels and motels in the US, and, according to the Asian American Hotel Owners Association, Indian American entrepreneurs own about 60 per cent of the properties that line American highways. A large number of Motel 6 facilities are already run by Indian Americans.

India and several countries have been pushing for the adoption of the negotiating text and the the US adding its weight gives it added impetus.

China-based  Hubei Huachangda Intelligent Equipment Company, Universal Enterprise Limited, and Xi’an Longde Technology Development Company Limited (also known as Lontek) are sanctioned for having “knowingly transferred equipment and technology” to Pakistan, which is not a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) group, Miller said…

“It is now time to move forward with the establishment” of the memorial honouring the more than 4,000 UN Peacekeepers who have made the supreme sacrifice”, he said, noting that 182 Indian peacekeepers have died “upholding the cause of international peace and security”.

Rana’s extradition would be a partial fulfillment of India’s attempts to get the US-based L-e-T accomplices to face trial in India as the US has refused to extradite Rana’s Pakistani-American accomplice Daood Gilani who uses the name David Headley.

The report said that “according to available public reports by media and the protest movement itself, between July 16 and August 11, more than 600 people were killed. Of these, nearly 400 deaths were reported from July 16 to August 4, while around 250 people were reportedly killed following the new wave of protests between August 5 and 6 August…

“We welcome all religions and all ethnic organisations to participate in the parade”, he said. “So you will see not only a Ram Mandir float, but also a Muslim float and a Sikh float and a Christian float”.