Democracy is the most important of the 3 Ds Modi keeps listing. If that is damaged, India’s most powerful PM in five decades also gets publicly admonished, if gently, by US V-P.
US President Biden has been arguing that collective action by the region’s democracies could prove more effective in countering China than Donald Trump's approach.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian Friday told the media that the quadrilateral grouping should not target any third country and its interests.
China's foreign ministry said Friday that the Galwan Valley incident was caused by the ‘Indian side’s illegal trespass of the LAC to encroach on Chinese territory’.
Nothing should deter the Modi govt from seriously pursuing India-France-Japan trilateral as a security framework in the Indo-Pacific. It will only strengthen the AUKUS.
PM Modi will also participate in the Covid global summit being hosted by President Biden, apart from attending the first in-person Quad Leaders' Summit to be held on 24 September.
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla says new trilateral security alliance between US, UK and Australia is ‘neither relevant’ to Quad, nor will it impact its functioning.
US President Joe Biden will host PM Modi for their first in-person bilateral meeting at the White House on 24 September. The Quad summit will be hosted by Biden later that day.
The Indian planning system did not encourage individuals based on ‘what they knew’, but on ‘whom they knew’. Many left for countries that recognised their talent.
The new law, which the government has framed as a moral duty, forced major platforms like Dream11 & Zupee to shut operations, wiping out hundreds of crores in market capitalisation.
Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.
Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.
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