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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…
NEW DELHI: India and Vietnam have decided to further expand and deepen their defence cooperation, including in important emerging areas like cybersecurity and real-time exchange of information, even as they inked a MoU on submarine search and rescue collaboration.The Defence Policy Dialogue, co-chaired by defence secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh and Vietnam’s deputy minister of national…
India and the US inked on Friday an expansive new defence framework to strengthen their strategic partnership over the next 10 years. This comes amid indications that a trade deal is also in the works to douse the raging tariff tensions between the two countries. The ‘Framework for the US-India Major Defence Partnership’, inked during…
NEW DELHI: After the recent visit by Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand, which saw the announcement of a number of initiatives to upgrade the Canada-India relationship, both countries remain in touch about more high-level engagements in the next few months.These include a possible meeting between PM Narendra Modi and his counterpart Mark Carney next month…
The ministry of cooperation has joined hands with the Indian Rice Exporters Federation (IREF) for what is set to be the largest rice event, Bharat International Rice Conference (BIRC) 2025, in a bid to strengthen the country’s rice sector. Alongside the conference, three major initiatives will be launched: a Coffee Table Book on Indian Rice,…
NEW DELHI: Russia remains confident that its energy partnership with India will continue, deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday, a day after US President Donald Trump claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured him that New Delhi would stop buying Russian oil.“We continue to cooperate with our friendly partners. Our energy resource…
Russia returns bodies (AP) Ukraine on Thursday said it had received the bodies of 1,000 people that Moscow identified as fallen Ukrainian soldiers, while returning the remains of 24 Russian servicemen in exchange.“Repatriation measures took place today. 1,000 bodies, which according to the Russian side belong to Ukrainian servicemen, have been returned to Ukraine,” the…
