India will only succeed when it is an Atmanirbhar Bharat, says Jaishankar (Photo Credit: Twitter/ S Jaishankar)
India will succeed only when it is an Atmanirbhar Bharat, says Jaishankar ANI | Updated: Jan 19, 2021 01:36 IST
New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI): India will succeed only when it is an Atmanirbhar Bharat, said External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar while delivering the 33rd Intelligence Bureau Centenary Endowment Lecture on Monday.
Taking to Twitter, Jaishankar wrote Delivered the 33rd IB Centenary Endowment Lecture on Redefining Security. Four major global reasons to reimagine security, protect national interests and facilitate India s rise.
The minister pointed out the growing challenges of borderless politics and said, Growing challenge of borderless politics, played for the benefit of few, in the name of many. Is shaping narratives and perceptions impacting security.
V. Muraleedharan, the Minister of State for External Affairs in charge of India’s relations with the Gulf, will visit the United Arab Emirates from Jan. 19-21.
India ‘intervened’ on Jaffna University memorial issue
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High Commissioner ‘raises concern’ with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa
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High Commissioner ‘raises concern’ with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa A message from India to the Sri Lankan leadership on the controversial demolition of a memorial for war victims at the Jaffna University appears to have contributed to authorities’ decision to “rebuild” the structure on campus.
A day after news of the late-night destruction of the monument broke, Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay met Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The meeting was kept under wraps, amid murmurs in Colombo of India intervening. “The Indian High Commissioner met the PM [last weekend] and they discussed the Jaffna University memorial matter,” PM Rajapaksa’s media secretary Rohan Welivita told
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Sri Lanka: A balancing act amid geopolitical developments Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced on Wednesday that a long-delayed Indian and Japanese deep-sea terminal project would proceed. The approval came after reviewing “regional geopolitical concerns,” Rajapaksa’s office said, a reference to India’s suspicion of Chinese interests at the same port.
Colombo’s ties with New Delhi have been tested since the Rajapaksa government last year decided to review the estimated $500 million deal signed in May 2019 between India, Japan and the previous Sirisena government to develop Colombo’s East Container Terminal (ECT).
Awarded to India’s Adani Group and Japanese partners in a joint venture, the contract gives Sri Lanka a 51 percent stake and 49 percent to Indian and Japanese stakeholders.
Adani Group to invest in Colombo Port terminal, says Gotabaya
In his government’s first admission yet of Indian involvement in developing a container terminal at the strategically coveted Colombo Port, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday said 49% of the investment will come from the “Adani Group and other stakeholders”.
President Rajapaksa was addressing representatives of the Port’s worker unions, amid their persisting resistance to any foreign involvement in the proposed project to develop the East Container Terminal (ECT). “The ECT will not be sold or leased,” he assured them, adding that the foreign investments would cause no harm to Sri Lanka’s sovereignty or independence, according to a statement issued by the President’s office.