Updated Feb 15, 2021 | 13:03 IST
The bilateral relationship between India and Canada had entered rough weather when Canadian PM Justin Trudeau had raised concerns over the ongoing farmers agitation in India. File image of Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Justin Trudeau
New Delhi: Despite a downward spiral in bilateral relation, India is expected to supply COVID-19 vaccines to Canada soon. The development comes after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dialled his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to request a supply of vaccines for the novel coronavirus disease.
Reports said a green signal has been given to supply vaccines to Canada following its PM’s personal request. However, it has yet to be decided how much quantity of vaccines is to be supplied to Canada.
Can India Turn the Rohingya Crisis’ Tide?
New Delhi shares moral as well as legal obligations in making sure it does its share to redress the humanitarian crisis.
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January 26, 2021
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India is not a party to the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol since India believes “its borders are porous and any conflict can lead to mass movement of people” straining its limited resources. However, India has traditionally opened its doors to Tibetans and Afghan refugees. Therefore, its response to the Rohingya crisis catches us by surprise.
Al Jazeera has stated that “the Indian government appears intent on following dangerously in the footsteps of the Myanmar authorities: intentionally fomenting religious-nationalist fervor and placing thousands of traumatized Rohingya in a state of constant fear and deprivation.” The 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and a proposed National Register for Citizens (NRC) have compli
Monday 28th December, 2020
Stinking landfills and waste imports are likely to earn Sri Lanka, which was once known as ‘the Granary of the East’, the epithet of ‘Garbage Dump of the East’. An investigation is reportedly underway into the importation of 28 shipping containers of agricultural waste from Ukraine. The waste arrived here, the other day, in the guise of a consignment of coriander seeds. One of the companies that imported the foreign garbage has claimed that it has been cheated; it says it ordered coriander seeds but received agricultural waste instead. This sounds a tall tale. Only a thorough probe will help establish the veracity or otherwise of this claim. The import of waste looks a well-organised racket. The possibility of shiploads of waste from Ukraine having already been dumped here cannot be ruled out.
1244 Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a virtual bilateral summit with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc, in New Delhi, on Monday, December 21, 2020. PTI
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December 21
India and Vietnam on Monday adopted a “Joint Vision for Peace, Prosperity and People” during an hour-long virtual summit between Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
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To implement this vision, a plan of action for 2021-2023 was also signed between the Foreign Ministers of the two countries, which identifies concrete follow-up actions, said Riva Ganguly Das, Secretary (East), at a media conference after the event.
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