News articles and essays on the Indian diplomacy at work around the world.
In the border row with India, China appears to have lost on several other fronts, and President Xi Jinping’s vaulting ambition to emerge as the most powerful global leader has also been hit.
Philippine and India could join hands to counter the Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea. Philippine Defence Minister has stated that India has communicated its desire to carry out navigation activities in the South China Sea just like the US, UK and others to maintain a balance of power in the region.
India and Indonesia – maritime neighbours – have signed a MoU on ‘Maritime Safety and Security’ as part of their Indo-Pacific visions to establish rules-based order amid China’s growing belligerence in the region.
Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh, Deputy Minister of National Defence, on July 6 held phone talks with his RoK and Indian counterparts Park Jae-min and Ajay Kumar
The Act East Policy (AEP) devised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a regional summit in Myanmar in 2014 has shifted the geostrategic posture of India in the Indo-Pacific and reformulated New Delhi’s approach to one that is more strategically assertive, according to a European think tank.
As India and China remained locked in a standoff in eastern Ladakh, the government fielded a number of calls and conversations from different countries offering support, and this helped the Modi government put forward its perspective on the confrontation in the high Himalayas.
The Sanskrit Vidhyalaya at Barbote Village Development Committee was built under the Nepal-Bharat Maitri Development Cooperation programme at a cost of Nepali Rupees 31.13 million.
The commerce and industry ministry has sought stricter scrutiny of goods coming from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Korea and the Asean bloc, amid fears of Chinese imports increasingly being routed through these countries. It has pushed for fast tracking amendments to the customs law to tighten the rules to claim concessional benefits under India’s free trade pacts, in line with the changes proposed in the budget this year.
The next Summit with the EU is being planned in mid-July to strengthen strategic partnership based on similar values and democratic traditions vis-a-vis Chinese efforts to unilaterally shape geo-politics, ET has reliably gathered.
The space policy and the Space Activities Bill are in the final stages, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan said, days after the government opened up the space sector for private players.
