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Iran-US row: India walks diplomatic tightrope - Anupama Airy, Hindustan Times
As US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s three-day visit to the country is set to coincide with that of a 56-member trade delegation from Tehran, India will have to carefully balance its diplomatic and trade agendas next week. While India is keen to boost its exports and reduce the trade imbalance tilted in favour of Iran
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When television news anchor Rahul Kanwal got through to Srinivasan and asked him about Meiyappan’s arrest, the BCCI president reacted with thuggish belligerence: 'Shut up, just shut up. I will fix the whole lot of you.' It’s amusing, of course, that “fixing” appears to be uppermost on Srinivasan’s mind even at this stage.This IPL series has shown up the carnival to be a can of worms and India’s cricket administration to be rotten at its core. As a first step towards fixing it over the long haul, Srinivasan and his political patron and IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla should be made to resign, and the Chennai Super Kings team disqualified.
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