News articles and essays on the Indian diplomacy at work around the world.
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday spoke with Russian and American counterparts on joint fight against Covid-19 besides reviewing Afghan situation. He also spoke with his counterparts from Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
The coronavirus disease pandemic (Covid-19) has offered India a valuable lesson on the importance of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, and the country, each state within it, each district within every state, and each village within every district must aspire to attain the twin goals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi shall be addressing various Gram Panchayats across the country on Friday, the 24th of April 2020. The Day is celebrated annually as the National Panchayati Raj Day.
Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Wednesday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for sending 23 tonnes of medicines to Nepal to help the country in tackling the coronavirus pandemic.
“Covidwarriors.gov.in has been created as a master database of healthcare professionals and volunteers. Till now, details of 1.24 crore human resources of various kinds have been added to it,” said Arun Kumar Panda, Chairman of the Empowered Group-4, which has been mandated with identification of human resources for various COVID-19 related activities.
Indian envoys and diplomats across the globe are doing everything possible to assist Indian nationals in places as far apart as Washington, Singapore, Moscow, Tokyo, Rome and Riyadh, providing them food and arranging for shelters, as countries fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Government of India is taking several measures to facilitate the farmers and farming activities at field level during the lockdown period. The updated status is given below:
Amid the Coronavirus crisis in the country, the government has transferred Rs 36,659 crore directly into the bank accounts of around 16.01 crore beneficiaries
India has all the right to protect its domestic industry in such a crisis situation, and making government approval mandatory for FDI from neighbouring countries is not a violation of norms of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), experts say.
India based diplomatic missions from across continents have so far been able to repatriate around 40,000 nationals since mid-March with active support from MEA and other authorities in what can be described as one the biggest evacuation exercises in human history in recent decades.
