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Singh, along with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, is in the US for the second 2+2 dialogue on Wednesday. They are being hosted by their US counterparts Defense Secretary Mark Esper and the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
On Tuesday, the Foreigners Division of the Home Ministry issued an office memorandum directing relevant government agencies and airlines that OCI card holders not between 20 and 50 year of age and who have renewed their passport can travel to India as long as they also have in their possession their old cancelled passport.
The thwarting of China’s plans will be a relief for India with officials seeing the move as coinciding with Pakistan’s fresh attempts to raise protests in India over the Citizenship Amendment Act.
The lamps were donated as part of the 150th Gandhi Jayanti Students Solar Ambassador Workshop to internationally spread the principles of self-sufficiency and to raise awareness towards the adverse effects of climate change.
“This latest training for Nepali officers reaffirms India’s continuing commitment for capacity building of Nepali officers,” the statement added. The officials will be provided training on the basis of tailor-made course that has been specially designed at the request of Government of Nepal for a total of 42 CIAA officers.
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa will visit India from December 19-20 during which he will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
NRC is the National Register of Citizens. The NRC identified and eliminated illegal immigrants from Assam on the Supreme Court’s order. This has been a state-specific exercise to keep its ethnic uniqueness unaltered
France – one of India’s key and longstanding allies has come out in its support over the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) by calling it India’s internal matter.
Harish Salve, one of India’s biggest names in national and international law, has stated that the Citizenship Amendment Bill is not anti-Muslim and it does not violate the Articles 14, 15 and 21 of Indian constitution as being claimed by naysayers.
If all goes according to the plan, Wang will land here on December 20 and depart straight to Agra for the dialogue next day. As first reported by ToI on December 8, the 22nd round of boundary talks will happen on December 21. During the last round of border talks in Chengdu, Wang had given Doval a guided tour of Mount Qingcheng and the latter can be expected to do the same for his guest at the Taj, if Agra indeed turns out to be the venue.
