India Removes Export Restrictions on Essential Commodities in Maldives
India has agreed to supply essential commodities to Maldives in response to the island nation’s appeal. The government is set to export various essential goods, including eggs, potatoes, onions, rice, wheat, flour, sugar, dal, stone aggregate, and river sand to Maldives during the 2024-2025 period under the bilateral trade agreement between the two governments. Typically, […]
India Rejects China’s “Invented Names” for Places in Arunachal Pradesh
India strongly rejected China’s recent attempts of renaming locations in Arunachal Pradesh, denouncing them as “senseless.” The ministry of external affairs reiterated that Arunachal Pradesh is an inseparable component of India and emphasized that China’s attempts to rename areas will not alter this reality. China recently published a fourth compilation of 30 new names for […]
Ukraine Foreign Minister to Focus on Peace Formula During Ongoing India Visit
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, who arrived in India on Thursday, conveyed his commitment to enhancing the bilateral relations and sustaining the ongoing dialogue between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Throughout his visit, the ministry has announced that Kuleba will partake in several activities. These include holding official meetings with Jaishankar, minister […]
India-China Hold Round of Political Talk Over Border Issues
India and China recently engaged in another round of diplomatic discussions regarding the disengagement in the Ladakh sector of the Line of Actual Control (LAC). However, despite these talks, there were no indications of any significant progress in resolving the ongoing standoff that originated nearly four years ago. The 29th meeting of the Working Mechanism […]
India Begins Withdrawing Troops from Maldives as China gets Foothold
According to local media on Tuesday, India has started withdrawing military troops who were piloting surveillance aircraft in the Maldives, after an order from the new pro-China President. 25 Indian personnel stationed in the southernmost atoll of Addu left the archipelago before 10 March, in accordance with the mutually agreed-upon start of the departure procedure, […]
India Signs Free Trade Agreement with the EFTA Nations
After working for 15 years, India secured a free trade agreement on Sunday with European Free Trade Association (EFTA) comprising 4 nations, Singapore, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. The meeting regarding the India-EFTA trade agreement was co-chaired in New Delhi by Piyush Goyal, the Union minister of business and industry. The agreement addresses a number of […]