India s External Affairs Minister, Dr S. Jaishankar, in his address at the UN Security Council launching the two-year tenure of India s membership, rightly focused on the threat of terrorism facing the world, pointed to the invidious role of .
Read more about India, China hold ninth round of senior military-level talks on Ladakh on Business Standard. The ninth round of high-level military talks began at around 10 am at Moldo border point on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh
What the India-Nepal Peace treaty is, and why Nepal has problems with it
The treaty to strengthen and develop India-Nepal ties has been in question in Kathmandu over the years. A call to revise it was raised again earlier this month.
Nayanima Basu 24 January, 2021 5:27 pm IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: On 31 July 1950, India and Nepal signed a treaty of peace and friendship in an effort to “strengthen and develop these ties and to perpetuate peace between the two countries”. Over seven decades later, clamour is now growing louder in Nepal to “revise” the pact to reflect “new changes and realities”.
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News 1st: India, which began exporting the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine doses last Wednesday (Jan. 20), has already sent supplies to neighbouring states Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Seychelles and extending further to even Brazil and
Morocco.
Among the latest countries to receive India’s vaccine donations is Brazil; it is reported that Brazil received a consignment of 2 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine from India.
After receiving 2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine from India, Brazil President Jair M. Bolsonaro had thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for vaccine export saying he feels honoured to have a great partner to overcome a global obstacle by joining efforts, foreign media reported.
New Delhi completely misread American politics
According to media reports, the US President Joe Biden has picked as many as 20 Indian-Americans for senior positions in his government, and the common thread running through them is that none of them had anything to do with the RSS or the BJP even remotely. What a curious yardstick to apply avoid like plague India’s high-flying cultural organisation which runs the country and the ruling party that runs the government!
This does not come as surprise to anyone who was watching with horror the complete misreading of American politics by India’s foreign-policy establishment, whose incredible naïveté in assuming that Donald Trump was destined to get re-elected as US president is becoming difficult to cover up anymore.