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Friday, November 14, 2025
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Topic: BIMSTEC

After Maldives, Jaishankar in Sri Lanka to secure Indian Ocean neighbourhood, counter China

The back-to-back visits by EAM S. Jaishankar is expected to strengthen India’s maritime security domain under the ‘SAGAR’ doctrine, in view of growing Chinese influence.

With RCEP now in force, India must strengthen trade & engage with other blocs, say experts

The world’s largest trade agreement, including China and 14 other Asia-Pacific nations, came into effect on 1 January. India had quit it in 2019, fearing a glut of cheap imports.

India, Sri Lanka ties complicated from Ramayana times but our tensions are low: Envoy Moragoda

In an exclusive interview, Sri Lankan High Commissioner Asoka Milinda Moragoda said that, despite complications, India & Sri Lanka’s leaders have always had ‘open, direct dialogue’

India committed to making BIMSTEC stronger, more effective & result-oriented, says Jaishankar

At a virtual meeting, External Affairs minister S Jaishankar says BIMSTEC has emerged as a promising grouping with growing strategic and economic interests.

What is BIMSTEC & why it has emerged as the preferred grouping of countries in South Asia

India will be a part of the 17th Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation meet on 1 April. The previous meet was held in 2018.

Why Modi’s first foreign trip after Covid year is to Bangladesh

Bangladesh is India’s gateway into its eastern neighbourhood. It’s also China’s gateway to the Indian Ocean region.

Modi govt set brilliant example by sending Covid vaccines to neighbours — Bangladesh minister

In a webinar Thursday, Bangladesh's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammad Shahriar Alam said the country was witnessing a 'golden chapter' of bilateral ties with India.

Solution to map-making Pakistan and Nepal is in India pressing reset button on regional blocs

Pakistan and Nepal are busy pencilling in new maps as South Asian ‘big brother’ India watches haplessly. Modi government needs to get its regional act together.

India’s Act East policy is slowly becoming Act Indo-Pacific policy under Modi government

India has placed the Indo-Pacific at the heart of its engagement with the countries of south, southeast and east Asia to counter China, writes Prabir De in his new book.

India has adopted zero tolerance policy towards narcotics, says Amit Shah at BIMSTEC

Home Minister Amit Shah added that India has devised a well laid out strategy to ensure inter-agency coordination and revamped the prosecution mechanism.

On Camera

From Virat & Anushka selling sarias to dentist ads, Bihar walls tell a ‘rurbanisation’ story

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.