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• Indo-Japan Plan CECA by year-end
  India said that it anticipates a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) to expand trade with Japan and enhance bilateral cooperation in pharmaceutical and manufacturing to ensure doubling bilateral trade to $10 billion in three years.<More>

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• Budgetary Quota Plan
  A sub-group of Ministers on financial controls have agreed to propose to the Federal Government is considering a proposal that will create a budgetary quota of 22.5% for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) welfare.<More>

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• Muzaffarabad Students want LeT Out
  Jammu and Kashmir National Students Federation (JKNSF) in Muzaffarabad has demanded that the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) vacate the area and accused the Inter Services Intelligence’s of interference and castigated the administration's apathy to curb terror.<More>

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• Indonesia frees radical Islamic cleric
  Indonesia set free radical imprisoned Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Baasyir convicted for his role in "a sinister conspiracy to cause a fire or explosion resulting in deaths" after he completed his prison term that was reduced to about 26 months from 30.<More>

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• Indo-US Nuke Talks End Positively
  India and the US ended discussions positively on the bilateral civil nuclear cooperation agreement (which forms the backbone of the Indo-US nuclear deal) as technical experts prepared the broad outline of the pact that will be signed after US Congress approval.<More>

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