Foreign ministers of Iran, Japan also likely to visit India later this month. Apart from incoming visits, Jaishankar is currently travelling to France and Luxembourg.
Anti-India protests continue in Bangladesh a day after Delhi summoned High Commissioner & issued strong demarche. Indian mission in Rajshahi was forced to shut for day on Thursday.
Envoy Denis Alipov said last week that Moscow had stopped recruiting Indians to armed forces since March 2025. However, 27 Indian families claim their kin were duped & recruited recently.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte Thursday suggested that Trump’s tariffs on India led to New Delhi pressuring the Russian President to explain his plan on Ukraine.
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar holds bilateral meeting with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi who is in Delhi. Wang Yi will also hold talks with NSA Ajit Doval & call on PM Modi.
MEA data shows number of unskilled & semi-skilled Indian workers going abroad rose from 3.73 lakh in 2022 to 3.98 lakh in 2023. India has labour mobility pacts with 6 nations.
Canada's action is 'hypocrisy towards freedom of speech', says MEA. Jaishankar, at the press conference, criticised Canada for providing political space to extremist voices.
Rahul Gandhi asked the external affairs minister about possibility of a foreign hand in Bangladesh crisis, it is learnt. Jaishankar said it was too early to comment on the same.
I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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