Jaishankar is visiting Colombo over three months after the two countries agreed to further expand ties in anti-terror cooperation, maritime security and trade and investment.
At least 20 people were killed and over 50 were injured after a blast that occurred at the Aden airport shortly after Yemen's newly appointed cabinet ministers landed.
MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava was responding to reports that it may not be possible for Johnson, who has been invited as chief guest on Republic Day, to visit India next month.
The MEA said India's proposal to hold 'Chabahar Day' on the sidelines of the International Maritime Summit in January 2021 was also welcomed at the meeting.
MEA says India's representative in the other prisoner's case misrepresented the position of the High Commission, and appears to have acted under pressure from Pakistan.
India advised the OIC to refrain from making such references in future and said it is regrettable that the grouping continues to allow itself to be used by a 'certain' country.
India is hosting the summit for the first time after it gained full membership of the influential grouping in 2017. The summit will take place in the virtual format.
MEA spokesperson says the ‘proof’ is a figment of Pakistan’s imagination. Accusation had been made by the country’s Foreign Minister S.M. Qureshi and its army.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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