News articles and essays on the Indian diplomacy at work around the world.
Morocco, which maintains a substantial information bank on ISIS and its network provided leads to Sri Lanka in collaboration with India that led to an operation in Colombo to eliminate terrorists who were planning second round of attacks after Easter Sunday bombings, ET has learnt.
India and Australia held the 11th Meeting of the Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism at
Kumar was conferred with the prestigious honour by France’s Ambassador to India Alexandre Ziegler on behalf of the French President. The award aims to recognise A S Kiran Kumar’s invaluable contribution to the development of India-France space cooperation.
As part of India’s ‘Act East Policy’, first India-South Korea 2+2 Dialogue will take place once the new government is formed as well as the new defence secretary takes over next month.
These Ministerial visits and India’s participation in the upcoming SCO Summit is taking place in the backdrop of maiden meet of India-Central Asia Foreign Ministers in Samarkand this January. India’s SCO engagement in many ways is in the context of Samarkand spirit as Delhi seeks to expand wide-ranging contacts and historical links with Central Asia.
Influential Chinese daily The Global Times has said that there is no Indian leader right now who is of PM Modi’s political stature and that there is little doubt that BJP will emerge as the largest party in parliament and rule for another term. The piece also hails PM Modi’s diplomatic initiatives and foreign policy during his tenure.
In the aftermath of the attacks at Pathankot, Uri, Pulwama, India has rallied several nations to get Azhar listed. China being a veto wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council had however blocked India’s move.
While the country extended 195 lines of credit worth $11 billion in 2013-14 to developing economies across the world, 278 lines of credit worth $28 billion were given to 63 countries in 2018-19.
The training designed for women officers has been given to them to help them get an exposure to development of character and leadership traits, military competence, physical and mental stamina and intellectual capability.
Reports have revealed that the two Asian powerhouses — world’s second and third largest importers of oil — have neared a momentous deal to set up a buyers’ bloc that could dramatically tilt bargaining power in favour of importers.
