New Delhi, Sep 2 (UNI) Senior Indian diplomat Deepak Mittal, who previously served as Indian Ambassador to Qatar and also did a stint with the PMO, has been appointed as India’s next Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. A Ministry of External Affairs statement said: “Dr. Deepak Mittal appointed as the next Ambassador of India…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (UNI) Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will be on a three-day official visit to India from September 2, as the two nations celebrate 60 years of diplomatic relations. His visit to New Delhi, at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is his first to India in his capacity as Singapore’s…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to hold bilateral talks with Singapore PM Lawrence Wong on Thursday, exactly a year after the two had met in Singapore and agreed to elevate the bilateral ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. A number of agreements are set to be inked during the…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today spoke with the Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi and conveyed that India has delivered 1,000 family tents and 15 tonnes of food material, in the aftermath of a massive quake that hit Afghanistan. The phone call between EAM and the Afghan…
Tainjin/ New Delhi, Sep 1 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated Moscow’s long-held stance that the Ukraine conflict was not the result of a Russian “invasion”, but rather the outcome of a Western-backed coup in Kyiv in 2014 and persistent attempts to draw Ukraine into NATO. Speaking at the plenary session of the Shanghai Cooperation…
Tianjin/New Delhi, Aug 31 (UNI) Chinese President Xi Jinping said that for China and India achieving a Dragon-Elephant Dance is the right choice, being friendly neighbours and mutually supportive partners. A Chinese readout of the talks between PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, held today on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Tianjin,…
Tianjin/New Delhi, Aug 31 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping began their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the SCO Summit here this morning. The bilateral meeting with the Chinese President is the first engagement in Tianjin of PM Modi, who arrived here yesterday from Japan. The meeting between the two…
Tokyo/ New Delhi, Aug 30 (UNI) After concluding his productive visit to Japan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has departed for Tianjin, China, where he will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit scheduled from August 31 to September 1. PM Modi will participate in the two-day SCO meeting, joining global leaders for high-level deliberations on…
Tokyo/ New Delhi, Aug 30 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi met today with the Governors of 16 Japanese Prefectures in Tokyo and encouraged them to actively leverage the State-Prefecture Partnership Initiative, launched at the 15th Annual India-Japan Summit, to enhance cooperation in trade, technology, tourism, skills, security, and cultural exchange between the two countries. Prime…
Kolkata, Aug 29 (UNI) The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) today handed over a dividend cheque of Rs 7324.34 crore to the Government of India. LIC’s CEO and MD R. Doraiswamy presented the dividend cheque of Rs.7324.34 crore to union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman, as the Government of India’s share…
