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Dumchelle is in Southern Ladakh, and is strategically located between Chushul , one of the five designated Border Personnel Meeting (BPM) meeting points between the Indian and Chinese armies, and Demchok in Southern Ladakh. The two other recognised trading points with China are Lipulekh in Uttrakhand and Nathu La in Sikkim. Predetermined, locally made items are traded through these points with an aim of boosting the local economy.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) confirmed that groundwork on for the inauguration in the first week of August, said the Himalayan Times report.
The Agreement on Reciprocal Logistics Support (ARLS) is being seen as an important practical step that could be signed at the upcoming meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia in early September.
The agreement was signed between IRCON International Limited and Government of Sri Lanka under the Indian Concessional Financing Scheme, a statement by the Indian High Commission in Colombo read
This is the first time an Indian waterway is being used as a channel for transport of cargo between the two countries, using India for transit, it said.
Pakistan’s arguments pertaining to Kulbhushan Jadhav at the ICJ were rejected with the international court also telling it to review the conviction and sentencing of the Indian national illegally held in the country.
This is India’s first such project with Australia for a third country. Earlier this year, Australia earmarked a sum for assisting projects in South Asia. A $ 25 million programme over four years, which will begin this year and focus on improving the quality of infrastructure and investment particularly in transport and energy sectors.
Australian sheep will be part of a sheep breeding program for wool development, an initiative under India’s National Livestock Mission.
The 8th meeting of India-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism was held in New Delhi on July 16, 2019.
The Mumbai Police team had been tracking Raza from the past year and had also issued a look out circular (LOC) against him. The D-Company operative was detained in Dubai last month after which Indian agencies started the process to get him deported to India.
