During the Joint Consultative Commission meeting, India, Bangladesh foreign ministers discussed a range of issues, including onion export ban & sharing of Teesta river waters.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said efforts should be made to enhance mutual trust, instead of targeting a third party or harming third party's interests.
MEA says the 5 border pacts of 1993, 1996 and 2005 have always affirmed that both India and China would work towards reaching a common understanding of the LAC.
The MEA said Pakistan has no locus standi on territories ‘illegally and forcibly occupied’ by it and asked to immediately vacate all areas under its illegal occupation.
During the visit on 6-7 October, Jaishankar will also be meeting his US, Australian & Japanese counterparts — Mike Pompeo, Marise Payne and Motegi Toshimitsu — separately.
In 1962, PM Nehru rejected Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai's offer to withdraw 20km from the 'so-called McMahon Line', which the Chinese defined as the LAC.
Modi was responding to a tweet by Maldives President Ibrahim Solih hailing the maiden voyage of the ferry between Kulhudhuffushi, Male and south India.
In his address at the UN General Assembly, PM Modi says India will continue to raise its voice against terrorism, and also calls for ‘serious introspection’ of the work of the United Nations.
PM Modi and his Sri Lankan counterpart also discussed the need for an implementation of 13th amendment to Sri Lankan Constitution, aimed at ‘realising expectations of Tamils’.
Her saree could easily give Sabyasachi’s Met Gala creation a run for his money. Alia Bhatt’s ‘Garden of Time’ saree was a product of 163 artisans, Tyagi is a one-woman show.
India’s defence sector is trying to penetrate the African market. But with China already extending significant influence, India must now play catch-up.
Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?
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