Jaishankar & Blinken reiterated their countries’ commitment to expand their partnership, as well as maintain peace & security, especially in the Indo-Pacific.
Pearl, a South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story in 2002 on the links between ISI & al-Qaeda.
MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava says Bhutan has been supplied 1.5 lakh doses & Maldives with 1 lakh doses. Nepal and Bangladesh were given 10 lakh and 20 lakh doses, respectively.
India last week announced that it will send Covid vaccines under grant assistance to Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Seychelles, Afghanistan & Mauritius.
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar tells gathering of China experts that relations are ‘profoundly disturbed’, but gives eight broad propositions to repair them.
The two national security advisers discussed issues such as the importance of continuing cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region and renewing efforts to collaborate on global challenges.
The India-Russia-Japan trilateral is being explored to give fruition to New Delhi’s vision of making the Indo-Pacific strategic initiative ‘inclusive and not just against one country’.
The purchasing from India will follow the arrival of the free Covishield vaccine Thursday, which will be accepted by President Rajapaksa at the Colombo airport.
Going through their Instagrams and dissecting their ‘statements’ is not the astute political commentary you think it is—it is time for us to back off from targeting 20-year-olds.
Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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