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TopicModi foreign trips

Topic: Modi foreign trips

China won’t change course. Modi’s PR events with stage-managed applause have never worked

If Indira Gandhi had based her foreign policy on “good vibes” with world leaders, Bangladesh would still be East Pakistan.

5 yrs, 33 foreign trips: Modi’s global outreach cost exchequer Rs 362 cr between 2021 & 2025

Data presented in the Rajya Sabha by Minister of State for External Affairs of India Kirti Vardhan Singh showed that Modi's trip to France & US hit the exchequer the most this yr.

Punjab CM Mann slams Modi’s trips & honours given by ‘small’ nations, MEA calls comments ‘unwarranted’

Narendra Modi has just returned from a 5-nation visit. Opposition Congress, too, took a swipe at the PM for his frequent foreign trips.

Jet, set, go: Jaishankar made 33 foreign trips in 2023 as part of Modi govt’s diplomatic push

In response to question in Parliament, MoS (External Affairs) gave details of Jaishankar’s travels between November 2022 & December 2023. PM Modi travelled to 12 countries during this period.

Modi’s vishwa guru quest continues. Australia visit will help India wean Canberra away from China

Hectic diplomatic exercises have begun as Modi government sets about meeting the heads of UK, Australia, Germany, France and Italy—besides US, Russia and China.

2020 set to be the first year without a single foreign trip for PM Modi

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To cut cost, PM Modi cuts size of his personal staff by almost 50%, PMO by at least 15%  

The reduction of staff strength has come at the PM's residence-cum-office at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, and the PMO. Personal staff include peons and clerical employees.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.