News articles and essays on the Indian diplomacy at work around the world.
CEC Sunil Arora welcomed the Swedish delegation and, in his address, stated that the Commission is committed to hold free, fair, transparent, peaceful, inclusive, accessible, ethical, and participative elections. He gave an overview of the last national elections held in India.
India on Thursday “encouraged” the UN’s human rights body to develop a “better understanding and appreciation” of the freedoms and rights that are guaranteed and protected in a vibrant democracy like India before coming to any conclusions on issues like the amended citizenship law and the Kashmir issue
At the invitation of His Excellency Shri Ram Nath Kovind, President of the Republic of India and Smt. Savita Kovind, the First Lady, His Excellency U Win Myint, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and Daw Cho Cho, the First Lady are paying a State Visit to India from 26 to 29 February 2020.
Officials won’t say who the annual buyers are yet, but India’s Defence ministry did say some 460 military manufacturing licences had been issued since 2015, twice as many as those issued before Mr Modi became Prime Minister in 2014, suggesting the business was doing well.
India, after hosting US President Donald Trump, will now focus on pushing its relations with major partner Russia through a series of high-level engagements marking 20th edition of annual summit and 10 years of special strategic partnership.
Delivering the Inaugural Address, Minister of State for Road, Transport and Highways, Government of India, General Vijay Kumar Singh, noted that West Asia will always be central to India’s foreign policy with the Gulf region being one of the largest markets, supplier of energy and source of remittances by a large India Diaspora.
During their deliberations, Jaishankar and New Zealand”s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters emphasized the importance of respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and international law including UNCLOS for peace and stability in the region, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.
Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand will be on a four-day visit to India beginning Tuesday.
Indian Railways is inviting private players to run trains on its network in what is being envisaged as a Rs 22,500 crore mega infrastructure project. Spanish player Talgo has expressed interest in the proposal and is willing to ‘Make in India’ customised trains for the project. In an interview with Financial Express Online’s Smriti Jain, the Managing Director-India of Talgo, Subrat Nath, talks about why he thinks the move is brilliant. E
Addressing a massive crowd at the ‘Namaste Trump’ event at the Motera stadium here, the US president, accompanied by wife Melania and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, talked about India’s great tradition of embracing individual freedom, rule of law, dignity of every human being and where people worship side-by-side in harmony.
