The closure after 35 years in the southwestern Chinese city comes two days after the US govt forced their Chinese counterparts out of their mission in Houston.
The 11 include Sikh leader Nidan Singh Sachdeva, who had been kidnapped by terrorists and was released earlier this month. MEA granted visas and facilitated their travel.
RBI has already finalised an agreement to extend a $400 million currency swap facility to Sri Lanka, but its President Gotabaya has asked for $1.1 billion more.
The currency swap arrangement put in place due to the ongoing Covid crisis will remain available till November 2022, said the Indian mission in a press release.
FBI currently has about 2,000 active cases related to Chinese counterintelligence operations in US. Officials say the Houston consulate represents just the 'tip of the iceberg'.
The talks were held under the WMCC framework, the second in 2 weeks, as disengagement between the Indian and Chinese forces in Ladakh is progressing at a 'slow pace'.
New Delhi has criticised Pakistan for continuing to hold back on granting India ‘unimpeded’ consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is on death row in the country.
Israel will soon send a high level research delegation to India to conduct a series of 'final stages of testing' as part of the joint effort to develop the rapid testing kits.
BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.
The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.
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