During the visit, the external affairs minister will also attend the meeting of the SCO contact group on Afghanistan, which will also see the participation of the Afghanistan government.
Doval and Yusuf will be attending the 16th meeting of the Secretaries of the Security Council in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. This will be an in-person meet from June 23-24.
In an address at the virtual meet of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu called for combating the menace under a collective approach.
PM Modi and China's Xi are expected to meet virtually at three other summits in November — ASEAN, chaired by Vietnam, BRICS, chaired by Russia, and G-20, chaired by Saudi Arabia.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar also thanked Chingiz Aidarbekov for the support in facilitating the return of Indian nationals from the Central Asian country.
In Moscow for the SCO, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in what is the first highest level face-to-face contact between the two counties since border tensions erupted in May.
In his address at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Defence Minister said that the goal should be security & growth for all in the region, but it is far from being achieved.
India cannot be blasé about change in any important capital in the world. Let's look at six key areas where US policy matters for India and how it may vary between Harris and Trump.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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