The high profile elevation of Salman Khurshid as the new foreign minister - only the third Muslim to hold the position since Independence - is a deft nod to Congress's faith in India's plurality.
Ms Sturgeon said the government's position in the independence White Paper would be based on the advice they receive.
It said the interests of the crown dependencies needed to be considered routinely in all areas of UK policy-making and legislation likely to affect them and that departments needed to be made aware of the constitutional position of the islands, their essential independence from the UK and their independence from each other.
The SEC's position is somewhere in the middle, that board independence has nothing to do with improving fund performance but is useful in eliminating conflicts of interest--that is, in keeping the business honest.
Yet Mr Martin's calculations seemingly failed to consider Ms Jean's position on the great Canadian political question: the independence of Quebec.
Robert Crawford, a former chief executive of the economic development agency Scottish Enterprise, said a succession of CEOs - both at Scottish Enterprise and its predecessor body - had made clear their support for independence, regardless of their position before coming to the job.
You can see a population share of oil and gas tax too, and that still looks grim, but neither of these figures tells us anything about the fiscal position at the heart of the political debate about Scottish independence.
But of course, this is of a lot of interest and relevance to the debate about independence, in which calculations of Scotland's financial position have a lot to do with a claim of at least 90% of the UK's subsea reserves.
The AAR shareholders are satisfied that their concerns have been met over independence at TNK-BP, international expansion plans, and the chief executive position.
They occupy an important position in Indian society as the guardians of democracy and are associated with independence from the old British Empire.
The expectation thus far - among those who considered the point at all - was that independence would require to be enacted by a Westminster statute, not least because the present position is that the constitution is reserved to the UK Parliament under the Scotland Act 1998.
"Scotland's share of the UK's public sector debt will obviously be a crucial part of the negotiations following a vote for independence and this analysis shows that Scotland will be in a strong position in these negotiations".
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