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BEIJING: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval arrived here today to firm up Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to India expected to take place next week.

Doval will hold talks tomorrow with Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi and is expected to meet Xi after that.

Dates for the visit of Xi, also the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China, have not yet been officially announced by both sides.

Doval's visit is taking place in the immediate backdrop of the cancellation of Xi's visit to Islamabad planned as part of his first visit to Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India.

Initially, Xi was to pay a three-day visit to New Delhi from September 17.

Speculation is rife that in view of the cancellation of the visit to Pakistan, Xi may arrive in India earlier and may visit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state Gujarat before he lands in New Delhi.

Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who visited Beijing twice including early this month, has laid ground for Xi's visit by holding extensive talks with Chinese officials on the package of investments as well as measures to address India's concerns of trade deficit.

China-India are in discussions to modernise Indian railways.

China plans to invest in industrial parks, locations of which are expected to be announced by Xi.

Besides finalising the schedule, Doval's visit is expected to focus on the political aspects of Xi's tour, including issues related to the boundary dispute and new routes for Kailash and Manasarovar Yatra.

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Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Gen. Keith Alexander (Ret.), former director of the NSA, comments on the escalating situation in Ukraine. He speaks with Trish Regan on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg)

Hackers who stole gigabytes of data from JPMorgan Chase & Co. may have been trying to send a message that U.S. financial institutions can be disrupted, the former director of the National Security Agency said.

The FBI is investigating the cyberattack on JPMorgan and whether other banks were penetrated in retaliation for U.S.- backed sanctions on Russia, according to people familiar with the investigation who asked not to be identified because the probe is still underway.

Graphic: Data Breaches in the U.S.

Keith Alexander, the NSA director from 2005 until last March, said he had no direct knowledge of the attack though it could have been backed by the Russian government in response to sanctions imposed by the U.S. and EU over the crisis in Ukraine.

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How would you shake the United States back? Attack a bank in cyberspace, said Alexander, a retired U.S. Army general who has started his own cybersecurity company to sell services to U.S. banks. If it was them, they just sent a real message: Youre vulnerable.

As NSA chief and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, Alexander tracked and tried to thwart international hackers, giving him knowledge of their tactics. He was head of the NSA in 2008 when the country of Georgia was invaded by Russia and experienced a series of disruptive cyberattacks believed to be the work of Russian hackers.

Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency and former commander of U.S. Cyber Command, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in Washington, on June 3, 2014. Close

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EU Official: Union Considering Payouts to Compensate for Russian Ban.
The European Union #39;s trade chief said on Thursday the bloc was considering compensating European food producers hit by trade restrictions that Russia has imposed in retaliation for EU sanctions...

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Tensions are running high between the West and Russia over the situation in Ukraine, with Moscow hitting back on the European Union over its new sanctions. The Russian foreign ministry says...

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MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) -The final decision of the European Union on furthering the economic sanctions against Russia will depend on the evolution of the situation in Ukraine, said the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy.

Further steps depend on the evolution of the situation on the ground. And so we will assess the situation which is worsening every day, but there is no precise criteria, said the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy on a press-conference following the EU Summit in Brussels, adding that decisions have to be made quickly.

Van Rompuy has also said that the consultations of the EU member-states on sanctions against Russia will begin early next week. The decision-making process is speeded up in a way that is unprecedented since the outbreak of the crisis, he added.

On the EU Summit held in Brussels on August 30, the European leaders have urged the European commission to come up with proposals for new economic sanctions against Russia within one week.

The European Union together with the United States imposed several rounds of economic sanctions, targeting Russias defense, energy and banking sectors.

Russia reacted by introducing a one-year ban on certain food imports from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway. The list of banned products includes meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and dairy products.

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