Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar were present for the annual ministerial dialogue, hosted by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark Esper.
Paris and Berlin have made it clear to New Delhi that they will not discuss the matter as Europe considers Kashmir to be a “bilateral” issue between India and Pakistan.
With India-Japan summit being postponed, the Guwahati administration is now dismantling what is left of the arrangements that were made for Modi-Abe meeting.
At Military Literature Festival in Chandigarh, former RAW chief A.S. Dulat also said the Kashmir issue can’t be solved militarily as it’s a political & emotive issue.
The defence secretary said the international rules-based order that US and its allies had worked hard to establish was being tested in new and precarious ways.
Vaccines have eliminated two diseases—smallpox in humans and rinderpest in cattle. If they were killing one in 50,000 people, we wouldn’t be rolling them out across the globe for decades.
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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