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NEW DELHI, May 8 (UPI) -- China and India have submitted a joint bid to acquire a stake in a Colombian oil venture for roughly $800 million, an Indian official said Friday. The China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, and ONGC Videsh Ltd., or OVL, the overseas arm of Indian state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp., offered a joint bid to acquire a stake in the Ominex de Colombia -- a subsidiary of the Texas-based Ominex Resources Inc. "Ominex de Colombia owns a 50 percent stake in oilfields in Colombia. The remaining stake is held by the Colombian national...

NEW DELHI: The Marxists have a radically different agenda. While describing the (former) Vajpayee government as “pro-imperialist”, they make no reference to the challenges posed by global terrorism. They fault the NDA for supporting the US in its “war on Afghanistan”. They would like us to end all military cooperation with the US and demand its withdrawal from bases in our neighborhood. They oppose any nuclear weapons program for India. By espousing the denuclearisation of South Asia they’d like us to abandon our longstanding policy of seeking nuclear disarmament on a non-discriminatory and universal basis. Their endorsement of proposals for...