External Affairs

Indian Prime Minister Modi is on a two day visit to Iran looking to strengthen infrastructure, connectivity and energy ties. It is expected that he would sign on long pending deal on development of Chabahar port. After 4 months of lifting sanctions against Iran by USA has opened the doors ...

India will push forward the agenda for a much stronger and collective global mechanism to prevent the situation of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of deadly terrorists like the Islamic State as well as to combat the growing presence of ISIS and other extremist groups in specially the Afghanistan-Pakistan ...

India today has asked the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries to unleash the “collective strength” to further work together. External Affairs minister Ms. Sushma Swaraj has stated the need for establishing a South Asian Economic Union with much greater connectivity and fast track pending agreements on rail ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today will embark on his first state visit to Russia for the 16th annual India-Russia summit. The meeting specifically will focus on expanding strategic partnership with Moscow and will highlight a number of important issues from defence to energy, hydrocarbons, trade and counter terrorism. New ...

In a symbolic move of strengthening Indo-Iran relations, India has eased the visa process for Iranians. Indian PM Narendra Modi promised to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during the world powers meet over Iran nuclear deal in Ufa, Russia this July. He assured his Iranian counterpart to bring Iran in liberalized ...

In a view to strengthen its arsenal in the midst of inveterate Chinese troop invasions, India has sought the latest version of unmanned aerial vehicle, both the armed and surveillance from the United States of America. According to industry sources close to both the governments, India is seeking for near ...

In recent visit of Prime Minister of Japan has praised the speed at which economic reforms of India and policies are being implemented by our Prime Minister Mr. Modi and also said they are as safe as bullet trains of Japan. They ear marked$ 11 to$ 12 billion for make ...

India and US are coming closure and working to finalize the mutual legal assistance treaties (MLAT) to speed up the exchange of information and evi8dences in legal matters. Presently it is taking a long time at an average of 40months. The information is mainly shared online. CBI has already established ...

Double taxation is levying of tax by two countries on the same declared income,  asset,  or financial transaction and is often eliminated by tax treaties between countries. The union cabinet approved signing an agreement for amending the double taxation avoidance convention with Japan that was first signed in 1989 to ...