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Syrian President Assad begins India visit

Manmohan Singh & Bashar AssadNew Delhi - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday arrived in India on a five-day visit during which the two countries are expected to enhance bilateral relations and sign several agreements, officials said.

This is the first visit to India by Assad and the first by a Syrian president in nearly three decades. Assad's father, then- president Hafez al-Assad, visited Delhi in 1978.

The Syrian leader was greeted at the international airport in the Indian capital New Delhi by India's Junior Foreign Affairs Minister E Ahamed.

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Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the facilitation centre of the Women and Child Development Ministry here, she said that she would write to the Road Transport Ministry to take stringent action against the parents of children involved in road mishaps.

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