News articles and essays on the Indian diplomacy at work around the world.
The JDC has been established to operationalise the Memorandum of Understanding on Defence Cooperation signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kuwait in December 2024, when bilateral relations were elevated to a Strategic Partnership.
The achievement reflects a sharp improvement in the effectiveness of the system. According to DoT, monthly handset recoveries increased by 201% between April 2025 and July 2026, supported by closer coordination between its Digital Intelligence Unit, field-level Licensed Service Areas and police authorities.
The inclusion brings the nationally notified list to 14 hazards and represents an important shift in how India treats two weather-related threats that claim thousands of lives, disrupt livelihoods and increasingly affect communities across large parts of the country.
The latest push came during Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s visit to Toronto, where she urged Canadian businesses and institutional investors to view India not merely as a large consumer market but as a global platform for manufacturing, innovation and exports.
Russian Deputy Consul General in Mumbai Aleksandr Fursov has said that relations are expected to become stronger, broader and deeper across the spectrum of bilateral cooperation. His remarks come ahead of the second Global Impact Forum in Mumbai in September and reflect a larger process already underway at the government level to transform the traditionally strong India-Russia relationship into a more diversified economic partnership.
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, concluding an official visit to Japan on 27 August 2026, held discussions with Japanese government leaders, financial institutions and executives from more than 30 major companies. The engagements in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka focused on translating the long-standing India-Japan strategic partnership into greater industrial investment, technology collaboration and integration between the two countries’ manufacturing ecosystems.
The visit is particularly significant as it is Vice Admiral Fernando’s first official visit to India after assuming command of the Sri Lanka Navy. It comes at a time when both countries are placing greater emphasis on maritime security in the Indian Ocean, where the safety of sea lanes, illegal maritime activity, humanitarian contingencies and emerging security challenges increasingly require close coordination between neighbouring naval forces.
The Joint Commission was co-chaired during Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and Electronics and Information Technology Jitin Prasada’s visit to Morocco from August 24–25, 2026. India and Morocco reviewed their commercial relationship and agreed that greater market access, diversification of the trade basket and stronger investment partnerships could unlock substantially more economic activity. Bilateral trade reached approximately $4 billion in 2025.
The disaster struck on the morning of August 26, 2026, when an enormous surge of water, mud, rocks and debris entered the Bhote Koshi river system near Nepal’s border with Tibet and swept downstream through Rasuwa and Dhading districts. The flood subsequently entered the Trishuli river and affected areas farther downstream, including Nuwakot and other districts along the river corridor.
The understanding emerged from the 25th round of Special Representatives’ talks in Beijing between National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The discussions marked another step in the gradual rebuilding of bilateral engagement following the October 2024 understanding that helped ease the prolonged military standoff in eastern Ladakh.
