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In 1998, APJ Abdul Kalam, a scientist and administrator associated with India’s missile programme as well as the Pokhran-II nuclear tests, co-authored a book titled
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It had a simple message: India would be a superpower within the next two decades. As predictions go, this was extremely bold. In 1998, India was a poor country, unable to reach even average global standards of human development. How would it suddenly leapfrog to superpower status? However, instead of being greeting with scepticism, Kalam’s extreme optimism was met largely with adulation.
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Seoul, Dec 30 (efe-epa).- The eighth congress of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, which is expected to decide the regime’s economic and foreign policy goals, will be held in early January, state media KCNA reported Wednesday.
The agency did not specify an exact date for the event.
The decision to hold the party congress early next month was taken at a politburo meeting chaired by the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in Pyongyang on Tuesday to prepare for the congress, considered the most important political event in the hermetic country.
“The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK adopted a decision on holding the 8th Congress of the WPK early in January 2021,” KCNA said.
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