India is looking forward to strengthening its economic relationship with the United States by engaging with the incoming Trump administration, India’s trade minister Piyush Goyal told reporters in New Delhi on Friday. “We are looking forward to a very deep and substantive engagement with the new US administration,” the trade minister said, noting that under […]
Read MoreIn the year that just ended, 2024, most of India’s neighboring countries went through political upheavals. There were also incidents in some countries, which led to tensions in the bilateral relations between those countries and India. From Bangladesh to Maldives, India has faced problems in several places. On the other hand, progress has also been […]
Read MoreIndia has nothing new to say at this time regarding Bangladesh’s request to return ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for the country’s Ministry of External Affairs. At the regular weekly briefing at the Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi on Friday afternoon, he also made it clear that the Indian government […]
Read MoreCalling the Maldives a “very concrete expression” of India’s neighbourhood first policy, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Friday said the two countries have finalised a framework to promote the use of local currencies for cross-border trade and signed a pact on high-impact community development projects. Jaishankar’s announcement came as he met the visiting Foreign Minister […]
Read MoreIndia and Pakistan have been enemies since birth. From the Kashmir issue to militancy, there is no issue on which Delhi and Islamabad do not disagree. So far, the two nuclear-armed countries have been involved in four full-scale wars. Relations between the two countries have deteriorated further after Narendra Modi came to power in India. […]
Read MoreIndia’s alleged role in a plan to oust Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu for his perceived pro-China stance would yield little strategic advantage and appears baseless, according to experts who cast doubt on an investigative report that New Delhi considered such a move. Following the report, published by The Washington Post on December 30, former Maldivian […]
Read MoreAn Indian nurse has been sentenced to death in Yemen. On Monday (December 30), Yemeni President Rashad Al-Alimi approved the death sentence of the woman named Nimisha Priya (36). The court said that this sentence will be implemented within the next month. This news has created quite a stir in India. The Indian Ministry of […]
Read MoreFormer Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh bid farewell with respect and love. His funeral was held with full state honours at Nigambodh Ghat in New Delhi on Saturday (December 28) around noon local time. According to an NDTV report, Indian President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay paid […]
Read MoreThe Indian rupee weakened slightly on Tuesday, tracking modest declines in other Asian peers, while volumes were relatively muted on the last trading day of 2024. The rupee was at 85.59 against the U.S. dollar as of 09:45 a.m. IST, down from its close at 85.5350 in the previous session. The dollar index was little […]
Read MoreIndia launched its first space docking mission on Monday, on an Indian-made rocket, in an attempt to become the fourth country to achieve the advanced technological feat. The mission, called Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh state at 1630 GMT aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation’s […]
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