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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLVC-21 lifts off carrying one French and one Japanese satellite from a launch pad in Sriharikota, southern India. Associated Press

India Successfully Tests Mini Space Shuttle

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 24, 2016 | Technology

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has said that it successfully launched its first small space shuttle as part of its efforts to make low-cost reusable spacecraft. ISRO said a rocket carrying the shuttle lifted off from a launch pad in southern India on...

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook leaves the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai on May 18, 2016. AFP

Apple CEO, Indian PM Meet in New Delhi

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 21, 2016 | Technology

Apple chief executive Tim Cook met on Saturday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is seeking the tech giant’s support for his “Digital India” initiative focusing on e-education, health and increasing farmers’ incomes. A government...

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An Indian paramilitary soldier looks on as he obscures the image of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a Bharatiya Janata Party campaign poster , during a curfew in Srinagar on December 8, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT)

India’s Modi takes political campaign to Kashmir separatist stronghold

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 8, 2014 | World

Srinagar, Reuters—Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday took his political campaign to the troubled northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, promising jobs and water supplies to win support in a region at the heart of nearly seven decades of hostility with...

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India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) gestures during his arrival at the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi on May 27, 2014. (Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images)

Modi’s Moment

by Afshin Molavi | Jun 5, 2014 | The Majalla Magazine

In the shadow of Dubai’s glittering skyscrapers, creaking, colorful wooden dhows line the historic Creek waterway, groaning with Korean television sets, Indian basmati rice, Iranian pistachios and Chinese-made T-shirts and shoes. Many of the sailors aboard those dhows...

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India’s new finance minister, Arun Jaitley, in his office at the finance ministry in New Delhi on May 27, 2014. (REUTERS/Stringer)

New Indian finance minister vows to restore investor confidence

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 27, 2014 | Business

New Delhi, Bloomberg—Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley pledged to restore investor confidence in Asia’s third-larggest economy on his first day in office after Narendra Modi unveiled the nation’s smallest cabinet in 16 years. Jaitley, who will also head...