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BJP seeks cancellation of Bengaluru tunnel road tender, targets Congress over Adani bidThe BJP has demanded Karnataka government scrap the Bengaluru tunnel road tender, alleging the Adani Group's bid is a staggering 96% over t...
Etihad, Uzbekistan Airways sign codeshare deal to connect eight Uzbek cities via TashkentEtihad Airways and Uzbekistan Airways have inked a codeshare deal, enabling seamless travel to eight Uzbek cities via Tashkent. This partne...
Gujarat: VGRC to open new doors of opportunities in Surat's textile sectorThe Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conference will accelerate industrial growth in South Gujarat. This event aims to attract investments, connect...
A Lost City Beneath a Mountain Lake? What Divers Found in Kyrgyzstan Is Rewriting HistoryDivers found an ancient city underwater in Issyk-Kul lake. This discovery supports local legends of a flood. Researchers believe it is a Si...
A golden journey to SamarkandThere may not be much silk in the heart of the Silk Road, but some things should stay a mystery, a mirage to fantasise about.
Forgotten Horses: How two grand histories gallop past power’s real engineTwo major books on world history, 'The Silk Roads' and 'The Golden Road', aim to shift focus away from Europe. However, both texts largely ...
Follow the Silk RoadThe British Museum in London is hosting an exhibition on the Silk Roads from Sep 23 to Feb 23, 2025. A related 2016 Getty podcast features ...
What is China's Belt and Road Initiative?A decade since its launch, the Belt and Road Initiative has yet to entice significant Western engagement.
Maritime and land routes not distinct but part of silk roads ecosystem: Peter Frankopan"Certainly, massive new investment in infra, energy, transport and communications can, and will, help boost trade even further. But this is...
US lays claim to $1 billion in bitcoin stolen from Silk RoadIn the second largest seizure in Department of Justice history, law enforcement seized the 50,000 Bitcoin during a November 2021 search of ...
- Traversing ‘Silk Roads’
The mass of connections constituting the Silk Roads meant that a number of commodities moved in a number of directions across Eurasia. Thes...
The Silk Road: China seeks to break out geo-strategically through its ambitious projectThe trade routes through the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that Beijing now calls the Maritime Silk Road also allowed China to demonstra...
China defends projects in PoK, justifies its objections against Indian oil exploration in SCSChina regards its ambitious USD 46 billion economic corridor through PoK a "livelihood project" with issues left over from history.
China defends South China Sea projects as lawfulChina claims sovereignty over almost all of the SCS, which is hotly contested by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.
China: Hometown diplomacy expected to be part of President Xi Jinping's hosting of PM ModiXi is expected to take Modi to his home province of Shaanxi and its historic provincial capital, Xian, which was hub of the ancient Silk Ro...
China says 2014 an year of bumper harvest for its diplomacy"China has experienced a bumper harvest of diplomacy in 2014," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here at a reception for diplomatic mis...
Mahinda Rajapakse backs China's Maritime Silk Road projectMahinda Rajapaksa has hailed Xi's initiative of 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR),saying it will bear significance to his country's dev...
China invites India to join its ambitious Silk Road projectsThe projects were expected to revive China's trade links specially its sagging exports besides globally enhancing its sphere of influence.
- 'New Silk Road provides opportunity for Indo-Pak trade growth'
The United States' strategy of 'New Silk Road,' an initiative to link the countries in South and Central Asia, provided "an enormous opport...
- Silk Route reopens after 44 years
India and China began formal trading at the 14,400-feet-high Nathu La Pass on the border between Sikkim and China’s Tibet region on Thursda...