President of India, Ram Nath Kovind will pay a State Visit to Vietnam and Australia from November 18-24, 2018. He will be accompanied by Anant Kumar Hegde, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, two Members of Parliament Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, Dr. Heena Vijaykumar Gavit and other officials. On the first leg of his […]
The 11th India-European Union Counter-Terrorism Dialogue was held at Brussels, Belgium on 12th November 2018. The Indian delegation was led by Mahaveer Singhvi, Joint Secretary for Counter-Terrorism at the Ministry of External Affairs of India, while the European Union’s delegation was led by Pawel Herczynski, Director for Security Policy, European External Action Service. Both sides […]
Maldives has been the only SAARC nation that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to ignore for a visit. The reason was the Islamist dictatorship led by Abdulla Yameen which forcefully ousted the democratically elected President of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed in 2012. The opposition in the Maldives had staged non-violent protests and representations were made […]
Commerce Secretary,Dr. Anup Wadhawan, had a bilateral meeting with Wang Shouwen, Vice Minister of China’s Commerce Minister, today in Shanghai. The Commerce Secretary was accompanied by senior officials from Department of Commerce, Department of Food and Public Distributionand officials from Embassy of India in Beijing and Consulate in Shanghai. The Indian delegation on this visit […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Mrs. Kim Jung-sook, First Lady of the Republic of Korea today. First Lady Kim is visiting India at the invitation of Prime Minister Modi. She will be the Chief Guest at the Deepotsav event being organized by the State Government of Uttar Pradesh and the ground-breaking ceremony of the […]
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is in the forefront of advanced research in virology and the ICMR-National Institute of Virology (NIV) is at par with leading scientific establishments across the world. ICMR-NIV, Pune has sequenced 5 Zika virus strains collected at different time points of the Jaipur outbreak. Advanced molecular studies of Zika virus […]
The 22nd National Level Meeting between India and Myanmar was held from 25to 26 October, 2018. The Indian delegation was led by Rajiv Gauba, Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India and the Myanmar delegation was led by Major General Aung Thu, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of the Republic of the […]
India Mobile Congress (IMC) is one of the biggest marquee Mobile, Internet, and Technology event for South and South-East Asia, with the theme, “New Digital Horizons – Connect. Create. Innovate.”, IMC 2018 began on a grand-scale at Aero City, New Delhi with over 300 companies, 20 countries participating in this prestigious event in the Asia […]
The Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha met with the Tourism Minister of Western Australia Paul Papalia here today to receive further commitments from the Western Australian State Government to establish direct non-stop flights between India and Perth. The Ministers said the discussions were positive, agreeing there would be benefits for both Western […]
The first trilateral meeting between India, Afghanistan and Iran of the Coordination Council of the Chabahar Agreement took place on October 23, 2018 in Tehran. The Indian delegation was led by T.S. Tirumurti, Secretary (Economic Relations). The Afghan and Iran delegations were led by respective Deputy Ministers of Transport. A press note said that ‘detailed […]
