New Delhi: – On Wednesday, India handed over 50 metric tonnes of food grains to Djibouti. Under the Mission Sagar-2, India is supplying humanitarian aid to the African countries that are severely hit by the Coronavirus pandemic and other natural calamities. Under the scheme, India has already provided assistance to the African countries, Sudan and […]
New Delhi/Athens: – Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will be visiting Greece at the end of this month. The Greek foreign ministry gave this information. This visit of the Indian Foreign Minister becomes significant against the background of strengthening relations between Pakistan and Turkey since the last few years. Only a few days ago, a […]
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 package with a provision of Rs 2.65 trillion. Under this, the Finance Minister has announced 12 schemes, and there are reliefs for the construction industry and infrastructure projects. A decision to announce a subsidy of Rs 65 billion on fertilisers for the farmers was also […]
New Delhi: – Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced, on Friday, that the World Health Organisation (WHO) will be establishing Global Centre of Traditional Medicine in India. The Prime Minister said that this was a matter of pride for India. The Prime Minister dedicated two National Ayurveda Institutions to the nation. The Prime Minister was speaking […]
New Delhi: – Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined the importance of ASEAN by saying, ‘There is a lot common in the policies of the ASEAN and India regarding the Indo-Pacific sector. ASEAN is the foundation of the Indian Act East Policy.’ A virtual summit was held between ASEAN and India on Thursday. During the conference, […]
New Delhi: – Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the 20th conference of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Since the tension between India and China festered, following the Galwan conflict, this is the first time Prime Minister Modi and President Jinping have faced one another via SCO virtual meeting. But, following the convention to avoid […]
New Delhi: – India supported the proposal to consider expansion in the number of members, in the New Development Bank (NDB) established by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the BRICS countries. Currently, only five countries are members of the bank. The bank was established in 2014, as an alternative to the World Bank […]
Yangon: – The ‘National League for Democracy’ (NLD) party of Aung San Suu Kyi, is headed towards a thumping majority in the Myanmar elections. Although the election results have not been officially declared till now, the party is leading in the counting. NLD has claimed that it will win many more seats than the required […]
Panaji/Beijing: – China is extremely disturbed with the Australian participation in the Malabar war exercises, which are the first ever joint exercises by the QUAD group of countries. The Chinese mouthpiece warned Australia, who sent its warships till the Chinese marine border to participate in the Malabar war exercises, not to join the US gang […]
New Delhi: ISRO launched the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-01) which will augment the surveillance capabilities of the Armed Forces. Ten satellites were launched by ISRO on Saturday using the PSLV C-49 launch rocket. These include nine foreign satellites. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the scientists at ISRO for the achievement. On Saturday, the satellites were […]