Diplomacy

Vimarsh Aryan, First Secretary at India’s UN Mission, exercising India’s Right of Reply, slammed Pakistan’s “mendacious propaganda” and also said that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India.

On his visit, General Maung flew a sortie on Sukhoi-30 MKI aircraft and was also briefed about its maintenance and training facilities as well as about indigenously built Akash Defence System. At the end of the discussion, the visiting General and Air Marshal Arora exchanged mementoes. The Commander-in-Chief was also hosted at a cultural and social evening.

The two countries have widespread convergence in these areas and this provides the foundation for further boosting cooperation, including working together on these issues bilaterally and at multilateral forums, the people said.

Chief of Defence Force (CDF) of Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) Major General Abdulla Shamaal is on a three-day visit to India starting today. Major General Shamaal will also deliver lectures on the perspective of the Maldives on Security of Small Island States at the prestigious National Defence College and Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis in New Delhi.

Kuwait has assured to play an important role in supporting India’s global ambitions including investments.

The United States is likely to talk about closer cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, including the freedom of navigation. The BECA or Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation could come up. But India prefers to sign the Industrial Security Agreement first. Both countries have a few problems with it.

shortcomings of India’s atomic energy establishment, the sanctions regime imposed after the 1974 Peaceful Nuclear Explosion made the job equally tricky. As the indigenous effort hit a technological bump by late 1970s, the Indian government turned to Moscow for assistance. In the early 1980s, Moscow agreed to help India’s indigenous nuclear submarine programme.

India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador K Nagaraj Naidu said the Government of India has increased its annual financial contribution fourfold to the UNRWA core budget, from USD 1.25 million in 2016 to USD 5 million in 2018.

There are currently 279 LOCs, worth $28 billion, extended to these countries located in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and Oceania, the government informed Parliament last week in response to a question on what India was doing to counter BRI’s economic and foreign policy issue.

Applicants seeking services there must now make payment with debit or credit cards effective Monday (July 1), in a move towards a total cashless system in line with one of the prime objectives of the Indian government.