Huge potential for trade between India, southern Africa countries

Prabhu was leading a high-level business delegation to Johannesburg to participate in the two-day summit from April 29-30. “We feel that there is a huge potential that exists between these two regions,” Prabhu said as he shared the platform with his counterparts form Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho and Mozambique at the summit. Prabhu said there had … Read more

India, Malaysia to hold military exercise ‘Harimau Shakti’

“The exercise is aimed at bolstering cooperation and coordination between the armed forces of both the nations and to share the expertise of both the contingents in conduct of counter-insurgency operations in jungle terrain,” the Defence Ministry said. The Indian Army will be represented by 4 Grenadiers, one of the oldest infantry battalions which has … Read more

India, Nepal agree to review bilateral trade treaty

Both countries agreed to initiate a comprehensive review of bilateral trade treaty by July 2018. The treaty which governs bilateral trade was last revised in 2009. The two sides also discussed amendments to the bilateral Treaty of Transit signed in 1999 to further facilitate transit movement of Nepal’s trade with third countries. Since most of … Read more

India sends sacred Buddha relics from Sarnath to Sri Lanka

Enshrined at the Mulagandhakuti Vihara at Sarnath, the sacred Buddha relics have been sent to Sri Lanka for public veneration during the annual Vesak/Buddh Purnima festival. Relics were brought to Sri Lanka for first time in nearly a hundred years. This is only the second time these relics, discovered by British archaeologists in colonial India in … Read more

India welcomes summit between leaders of two Koreas; hopes it will pave way for regional peace

In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) hoped that the engagement will help in reducing tensions and pave the way for lasting peace and reconciliation. India hoped that all efforts to find resolution of the Korean Peninsula issue will also include addressing concerns about the proliferation linkages of North Korea’s nuclear and missile … Read more

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