Gen Li will be in India for Shanghai Cooperation meet. This will be the 1st visit by a Chinese defence minister since tensions broke out at LAC between the two nations in eastern Ladakh in 2020.
In an exclusive interview with ThePrint, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation secretary general Zhang Ming also said the multilateral body was expected to expand during India's tenure as chairman.
The fortunes Indian merchants built in Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent were based on a single, simple thing: Selling all that Central Asian consumers needed.
Putin said he is aware of the Indian PM's position on conflict. The two met on sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit and discussed ways to enhance trade ties.
No meeting held between the prime ministers on summit sidelines. Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal says 'difficult to speak to India since abrogation of Article 370'.
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation should create 'reliable, resilient and diversified supply chains', give utmost priority to food & energy security, PM Modi says at summit.
None of India’s objectives behind joining SCO seem to have been achieved so far. But Russia's neo-Eurasianist policy and China's economic expansionism are keeping Delhi engaged.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting Friday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Uzbekistan.
At a media briefing, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said PM Modi will have bilateral meetings with the Uzbek president and some other leaders on the sidelines of the SCO summit.
Europe and Ukraine’s agencies are crucial. Steering the Alaska talks bilaterally between the US and Russia will foil the outcomes before they even start taking effect.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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