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File photo: US under secretary of state for political affairs Allison Hooker NEW DELHI: US under secretary of state for political affairs Allison Hooker will visit New Delhi and Bengaluru from December 7 to 11, marking another step forward, as the US embassy here said, in advancing President Donald Trump’s priorities for a strong US-India…
KOLKATA: Security has been stepped up in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, ahead of a controversial foundation-laying event of ‘Babri Mosque’ planned by suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir.On Saturday, Kabir told reporters, “All is well. Wait until it’s 12 noon; the reading of the Quran will begin then. After that, the foundation stone will be…
Union agriculture and farmers welfare minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (IANS) NEW DELHI: India and Russia have agreed to deepen cooperation in agricultural trade, fertilisers, seeds, market access and joint research, reaffirming their commitment to advance innovation and benefit farme-rs. Bilateral agricultural trade stands at about $3.5 billion.Both sides outlined future areas of cooperation at a…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra on Friday hailed India-Russia relations and claimed it to be a “North star” in the changing world order.While holding a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister said that both the countries have agreed on a economic cooperation program till 2030.Here are the top quotes Fifteen…
India and the European Union will hold detailed discussions this week on boosting the security and resilience of undersea cables in the Indian Ocean, weeks before the annual India-EU summit scheduled for January 27 in New Delhi. Cooperation on protecting critical submarine infrastructure is likely to feature prominently at the summit, PTI reported.According to the…
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday called for cooperation among tax jurisdictions to deal with digitalisation of economy, emergence of new financial products, and evolving structures of beneficial ownership, while asserting that there was greater tax compliance, and voluntarily, in India in recent years.In her address at the plenary…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed bilateral cooperation and the issue of Taiwan in a phone call on Monday, according to China’s state news agency Xinhua. Xi said the two countries should “maintain momentum in ties” following their meeting last month in South Korea, and “stressed that Taiwan’s return to China…
India and Israel have discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in the agriculture sector, the commerce ministry said on Saturday, PTI reported.Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, during an official visit to Israel, met Israeli Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Avi Dichter for detailed discussions on advancing agricultural collaboration.Goyal also held a series of bilateral…
Panaji: Recent incidents of armed dacoities in Goa have sparked concerns about safety, particularly with the onset of the tourism season.Multiple cases have been reported, with the most recent one at Baina at the start of this week where seven armed men stormed an apartment and fled with valuables. In Oct, masked men robbed a…
The upcoming 23rd India-Russia annual summit, scheduled for December, is expected to significantly advance bilateral cooperation in civil nuclear energy, with a special focus on small and modular reactors (SMRs) and greater localisation of nuclear plant equipment.Ahead of the summit, Rosatom director general Alexei Likhachev met Ajit Kumar Mohanty, director general of the department of…
