News articles and essays on the Indian diplomacy at work around the world.
This is part of the new draft National Space Transportation Policy released by the Department of Space (DoS) and Isro, which aims to provide opportunities for Indian entities to capture a share of the global launch services market while Government agencies accelerate focused R&D to build space transportation capabilities for future space endeavours along with commercial exploitation.
India and Greece discussed recent developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, and Libya during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to the Greek capital Athens. Eastern Mediterranean, a few months ago saw tense developments over Turkey’s claims in the Exclusive Economic Zone, which Greece says belongs to it under UN laws. Cyprus and Libya are also part of the same issues given their Exclusive Economic Zones are also impacted in the ongoing tussle in the region.
Close on the heels of Italy’s medical support to India to fight the second wave of Covid, a Memorandum of Understanding on the cooperation in the field of disaster risk reduction and management was signed this week by New Delhi and Rome to share and learn from each others’ best practices.
India along with France on Friday co-hosted a virtual event focussing on countering financing of terrorism in the post-Covid landscape at the second United Nations Counter-terrorism week.
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Law & Justice, Communications and Electronics & IT, formally launched the e-filing portal of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), ‘itat e-dwar’, at 04.00 pm today, the 25 June 2021 in New Delhi.
The national security advisers of India and Russia held a brainstorming session on several issues including the Afghan situation amid US troop withdrawal and the future role of Taliban on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) NSA-led meeting this week.
An independent appraisal reportreleased by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has lauded the Aspirational Districts programme (ADP) ‘as a very successful model of local area development that should serve as a best practice for several countries where regional disparities in development status persist for many reasons.’
Indian Army Chief General M M Naravane on Thursday held a telephonic interaction with his counterpart in Kazakhstan Major General Talgat Mamyrtaevich Koibakov to discuss issues of bilateral defence cooperation, according to an official statement.
As part of the global outreach exercise, the ministry has integrated 174 Indian Embassies and Consulates aboard with the Passport Seva Programme, says Union Foreign Minister S Jaishankar. He said the mandate of the government was to ensure efficient governance and timely, effective, assured, transparent and accountable public service delivery.
The Gujarat Maritime University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Financial Services Centres Authority in GIFT City on June 21 to promote the Gujarat International Maritime Arbitration Centre (GIMAC).
