NEW YORK — India s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have discussed increasing Covid-19 vaccine production capacity during their meeting in London.
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The landmark agreement will boost work visas for Indian nationals.
India s EAM S Jaishankar and UK Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the agreement.
New Delhi: India and the United Kingdom on Tuesday (May 4, 2021) signed a ground-breaking partnership migration deal that will boost work visas for Indian nationals. The landmark agreement will allow young Indian and British nationals to work and live in each other s countries and accelerate the removal of illegal migrants.
India s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and UK Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement which is aimed at supporting people to live and work in both countries while addressing long-standing problems of illegal migration from India to the UK.
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Following Saturday’s official launch of the US troops withdrawal process, military officials have said 60 planeloads of equipment has already been moved out of Afghanistan and a further 1,300 pieces of equipment had been identified for destruction by Tuesday.
The drawdown effort to remove US forces and the equipment spread across Afghanistan was roughly 2% to 6% completed by Tuesday, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
Stars and Stripes reported the formal retrograde process began Saturday as the Pentagon works to remove more than 3,000 troops, thousands of US contractors and their equipment by September 11, the date that President Joe Biden decided he wanted all American forces to be out of the country.
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The European Union and India have both called for an immediate ceasefire in Afghanistan and said an effective and unconditional cessation of hostilities is essential for creating the appropriate conditions for meaningful peace talks to continue.
Following a meeting between the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell and India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in London, the two diplomats said in a joint statement that “a successful peace process requires the Taliban to engage in good faith, with a serious commitment towards finding a political solution. Both sides reiterated the importance of ensuring that the soil of Afghanistan should not be used by terrorist groups to threaten the security of India and the EU”.
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At least one person was killed and three more were wounded in a blast that targeted a bus carrying employees of the public health directorate of Panjshir in Kalakan district, north of the city of Kabul, police said.
Police said that the injured were taken to hospital and the type of mine is being investigated by the technical team.
Kalakan district governor Abdul Ghafoor Popalzai also confirmed the incident added that one person was killed and three more were wounded.
But eyewitnesses said the blast killed one person and wounded 10 more.
Earlier sources said the bus was hit by a roadside bomb blast.