According to external affairs ministry, 14 countries have supplied India with emergency aid — from oxygen cylinders, ventilators to drugs. ThePrint gives you the full list.
India urgently needed to reach out to world capitals and engage with nations that were looking for an alternative to China. But the pandemic kept MEA occupied.
In a tweet Thursday, Union Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar said he will co-chair a Joint Commission with Kuwait's foreign minister to elevate India-Kuwait relations.
Speaking at the Global Technology Summit held by the External Affairs Ministry & Carnegie India, Sandhu said that with the pandemic, technology has become a ‘game changer’.
On ongoing LAC standoff in Ladakh, both sides have agreed to have another round of Senior Commanders meeting at ‘appropriate time’, says MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava.
India has proposed to create special working groups on startups and innovation and traditional medicine to strengthen cooperation among Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states.
Replying to a query in Lok Sabha, MoS for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan said many Indians working in Afghanistan on development projects have been attacked over the past 12 years.
In a virtual address, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar says fresh ideas and greater openness are needed... and to go beyond orthodoxies, whether of trade, politics or security.
Weighing in on India-Australia coming closer, Jaishankar says there are strong structural reasons why the two countries are doing very much more with each other.
India hasn’t responded to China’s statement even as the external affairs minister, defence minister, CDS Rawat and three service chiefs held an emergency meet.
In the capitals that will now be the unhappiest, a Kamala Harris victory was presumed, and a lot of actions and calculations were predicated upon that.
India-US trade in first 3 yrs under Biden was $122 bn, while it was $83 bn in Trump’s first term. Average trade surplus in India’s favour grew from $18 bn under Trump to $31 bn under Biden.
The Chinese aircraft has uncanny similarities to the American F-35 jet. There are claims that China copied the design. Cyber theft of F-35 design data was reported in 2009.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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