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The MoU was signed on 28 August 2026 during GCAI’s event, “India-Singapore Legal Bridge: Enabling Growth, Investment and Effective Dispute Resolution in a Changing Global Economy,” held on the sidelines of Singapore Convention Week.
The renewed push came during the Fourth India–Argentina Joint Trade Committee meeting, held at Palacio San Martín in Buenos Aires on 24 August 2026. The meeting reviewed progress since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Argentina in 2025 and sought to convert the growing political relationship between the two countries into deeper trade, investment and industrial cooperation.
Reports emerging on 28 August 2026 indicate that work has begun on mounting the PRABAL system on the protected Armado platform. If confirmed, the configuration would represent another important step in the Army’s rapidly expanding effort to develop mobile defences against drones and loitering munitions.
The visit begins with a State Visit to Tashkent on 29–30 August, where Prime Minister Modi will hold talks with Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, before travelling to Bishkek to participate in the 26th Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on 31 August and 1 September.
The meeting was confirmed on 27 August 2026 by Ministry of External Affairs Secretary (West) Sibi George during a briefing ahead of the Prime Minister’s forthcoming visits to Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic. Modi will travel to Uzbekistan on 29–30 August before proceeding to Bishkek, where he will participate in the 26th SCO Summit from 31 August to 1 September.
The JDC has been established to operationalise the Memorandum of Understanding on Defence Cooperation signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kuwait in December 2024, when bilateral relations were elevated to a Strategic Partnership.
The achievement reflects a sharp improvement in the effectiveness of the system. According to DoT, monthly handset recoveries increased by 201% between April 2025 and July 2026, supported by closer coordination between its Digital Intelligence Unit, field-level Licensed Service Areas and police authorities.
The inclusion brings the nationally notified list to 14 hazards and represents an important shift in how India treats two weather-related threats that claim thousands of lives, disrupt livelihoods and increasingly affect communities across large parts of the country.
The latest push came during Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s visit to Toronto, where she urged Canadian businesses and institutional investors to view India not merely as a large consumer market but as a global platform for manufacturing, innovation and exports.
Russian Deputy Consul General in Mumbai Aleksandr Fursov has said that relations are expected to become stronger, broader and deeper across the spectrum of bilateral cooperation. His remarks come ahead of the second Global Impact Forum in Mumbai in September and reflect a larger process already underway at the government level to transform the traditionally strong India-Russia relationship into a more diversified economic partnership.
