Indian tourists boost cash registers in Maldives THE ASIAN AGE.
Updated : Feb 21, 2021, 7:30 am IST
Foreign minister Jaishankar begins two-day visit to India’s south-western maritime neighbour
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar witnesses the exchange of agreements between India and Maldives on a wide range of domains. (PTI)
NEW DELHI: Even as External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar began his twoday official visit to the Maldives on Saturday, Indian tourists are setting the cash registers ringing in the tourism-dependent economy of India’s tiny south-western maritime neighbour.
As per statistics of 2021 so far, a whopping 30,000 Indians have visited the Maldives till mid- February out of a total of 1,38,000 foreign tourists this year, the highest number from any foreign nation visiting the Maldives. Even with the pandemic, a total of 62,905 Indians, largest number of tourists, visited the Maldives in 2020.
India signs USD 50 mln LoC agreement to boost Maldives maritime capability ANI | Updated: Feb 21, 2021 17:36 IST
New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI): India has signed a USD 50 million line of credit (LoC) agreement with the Maldives to facilitate maritime capability building of the island nations.
According to a joint India-Maldives joint statement, the agreement was signed between the Government of Maldives and EXIM Bank India.
The agreement was signed during the visit of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to the Maldives. Welcome the signing of USD 50 million Defence LoC agreement with the Maldives. Will facilitate capability building in the maritime domain, Jaishankar tweeted.
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Behind The World’s Largest Repatriation Exercise
Ranjana Narayan
21st February, 2021 10:40:05
The Government of India successfully undertook the mammoth repatriation exercise Vande Bharat under the shadow of Covid-19, bringing back over five million stranded Indian nationals from across the globe. But not everyone knows it was an “alert” from External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in February last year that galvanized the ministry and different government departments into action.
“Dr Jaishankar showed tremendous foresight. Before anybody could have anticipated that it is going to be such a big challenge and the scale of it, he alerted us as early as in February (2020),” Akhilesh Mishra, Additional Secretary (DPA) in the Ministry of External Affairs told StratNews Global. “So we had to start our preparation and mental planning very, very, early on,” Mishra said, terming the Vande Bharat Mission “history’s largest repatriation exercise”.
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