On the surface, there appears a semblance of normalcy — even bonhomie — as it seemed when Putin flew down to Delhi in December. But the faultlines are emerging & widening.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said India discussed its border standoff issue with China in Quad foreign ministers' meeting, even as Beijing called Quad 'tool to contain' it.
MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said those who know India well would have 'a proper appreciation' of the realities and how issues are resolved within its constitutional framework.
Quad foreign ministers met in Melbourne Friday and called for end to violence and return to democracy in Myanmar. It asserted maritime rules-based order in South & East China Seas.
Terming Quad as a 'deliberate move' to stoke confrontation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said 'relevant countries' should abandon the 'outdated Cold War mentality'.
Speaking at the meet, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he doesn't consider a conflict in Indo-Pacific inevitable but China has been acting more aggressively.
UAE’s Ambassador to India Ahmed Albanna says new grouping that first met in Oct 2021 is ‘an offspring of Abraham Accord’, critical to combat threats to economic growth & stability.
Backed by UN and World Bank, the summit organised by France from 9 to 11 February will also host leaders of Germany, UK, Japan, South Korea and Canada.
The Indian diplomat was conveyed Pakistan’s deep concern over alleged religious intolerance, negative stereotyping, stigmatisation and discrimination against Muslims in India.
By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.
Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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