All work, no play for Modi in Brazil
June 26, 2014  17:41
Xi Jinping will be there. So will Vladmir Putin. Barack Obama may make a short trip down. And a galaxy of European and Latin American leaders is expected. But one seat Brazilian President Dilma Roussef is keeping warm will stay empty.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will skip the Fifa World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro on July 13 despite an invitation from Roussef, ensuring that India's absence at the high table of global football will also resonate in the stands where some of the world's top leaders will gather.

Modi, who has set a punishing schedule for ministers and bureaucrats alike, will fly to Brazil for a summit of the BRICS grouping of emerging economies starting July 15 in the port town of Fortaleza. Read more
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