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The West Bengal chief minister’s visit to South East Asia underlines India’s Look East policy.

The Left parties have little to offer in addressing India's foreign policy challenges.

Although Washington wants to share its expertise with India in higher technology, Bush's enthusiasm for nuclear cooperation is not necessarily shared by the powerful nuclear non-proliferation bureaucracy. And in India the Left too is wary of the United States. As such the Indian prime minister's visit to America, next week, is significant.

The US Secretary of State brought cheer to the Indian camp by stressing the need for closer cooperation in the nuclear energy programme, defence and regional security and empathising with the country’s global aspirations.

Reopening the transport corridors would heal the wounds of partition and bring prosperity to the region stretching from Kabul to Chittagong

As Islamabad and New Delhi allow travel across the state of Jammu and Kashmir, a long-standing aspiration of the people of the divided state has been met. For how long will the bonhomie continue?

Is there a curse over South Asian summits? It was the rare and powerful tsunami at the end of last year that led to the first postponement of the summit of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (Saarc) slated to be held in Dhaka in early January

It is not often that India scores over China on the diplomatic front. But that exactly is what India has done in the wake of the tsunami disaster in South Asia.

India might be disappointed by Washington's decision last week to designate Pakistan as a "major non-Nato ally", but it has no reason to lose sleep.