While India & Greece have ramped up ties in past year, China has been far more active in the Mediterranean country for almost two decades—on political, economic & cultural levels.
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be on a two-day state visit to India starting Wednesday. He will be accompanied by senior officials and a high-level business delegation.
Opinion polls show Greeks are split on the issue. The powerful Orthodox Church believes homosexuality is a sin, while many in the LGBT community believe the bill does not go far enough.
The UK PM Rishi Sunak cancelled a scheduled meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis after the latter called for the return of the Parthenon sculptures to Athens.
Greece has repeatedly asked British Museum to permanently return the 2,500-year-old sculptures that British diplomat Lord Elgin removed from Parthenon temple early 19th century.
Aarush Mishra, Siddharth Kumar Gopal and Satwik Patnaik secured gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively, at the 2nd IOAA-Jr, an international competition of astronomy & astrophysics.
Modi’s visit to Greece is significant as the European country shares a troubled relationship with its neighbour Turkey, which is a close ally of Pakistan.
This is the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Greece in the last 40 years. PM Modi arrived in Athens from South Africa where he attended the 15th BRICS Summit.
Greece can be India’s economic gateway to the EU, has the second-largest shipping capacity after China, and needs temporary agricultural labourers. All work in Delhi's favour.
Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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