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Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan held separate bilateral meetings with agriculture ministers from the three countries in New Delhi on September 9, 2026, on the sidelines of the 9th ASEAN–India Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry (AIMMAF).
The Ministry of Defence said the visit is aimed at strengthening the Indian Navy’s bilateral engagement with the Royal Australian Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy, with discussions covering operational cooperation, interoperability, information sharing, training and professional exchanges.
The initiative is designed to make Aadhaar authentication easier to integrate, test and deploy while reducing the need for users to move between different applications during identity verification.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially confirmed the forthcoming engagement during his meeting with Putin in Bishkek on August 31, held on the sidelines of the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit.
Under the revised framework, travellers from 60 countries and territories will be eligible for visa-free entry for tourism for up to 30 days. Thailand is simultaneously abolishing the existing 60-day exemption scheme that had covered 93 countries and territories.
India’s Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways announced the successful conclusion of the meeting on September 8, highlighting the two countries’ intention to deepen maritime cooperation, particularly in shipbuilding and sustainable ship recycling.
For a geographically dispersed Pacific island country, mobile policing equipment can have a direct operational value, particularly for patrol duties, rapid response and movement through areas where larger vehicles may be less practical.
India supplied Sri Lanka with 24 L70 air-defence guns between 2000 and 2006. According to Herath, India has subsequently provided free maintenance support for 18 of those weapons. The proposed arrangement will extend similar support to the remaining six guns.
The Indian delegation was led by Ramesh Kumar Pandey, Additional Director General of Forests in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, while the Japanese side was headed by Shimizu Kotaro, Deputy Director General of Japan’s Forestry Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
The Financial Fraud Risk Indicator, or FRI, was introduced on May 22, 2025 under the Department of Telecommunications’ Digital Intelligence Platform. It provides banks and other financial institutions with real-time risk information linked to mobile numbers that may be associated with cybercrime or financial fraud.
