External Affairs

China and India agreed to actively exchange intelligence on terror groups and their activities through a dedicated communication channel, said in a joint statement issued after talks between Home Minister Rajnath Singh and top Chinese leaders. China and India also agreed to coordinate positions on anti-terrorism endeavours at regional and multilateral ...

PM Narendra Modi, who is visiting UK for three days, said India’s relationship with the UK is of “immense importance”. “Not simply to celebrate the immense economic ties, with India a top investor into Britain and Britain a top investor into India, but actually building a thoroughly modern partnership between ...

Indonesia is the largest ASEAN member and India looks forward to its continued support as we move to increase our engagement with ASEAN member states as part of our Act East policy. India and Indonesia on Monday signed agreements in the fields of renewable energy and culture and discussed possibilities ...

India will sign an agreement with Bangladesh for selling 100 MW power from Tripura’s Palatana power project in Gomati district, a Tripura minister said. The 100 MW power will be in addition to the 500 MW Bangladesh already receives from the West Bengal and a like amount that is on ...

Highlights India’s major imports from Africa are resources and minerals, including crude oil, coal, gemstones and gold. African countries are a big market for Indian-made pharmaceuticals, motor vehicles and processed petroleum products, with trade growing quickly. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking out for a change to the Security Council to ...

India is Africa’s fourth-largest trading partner after China, the US and the EU. South Africa is already a major coal supplier to India. India’s current trade with Africa is around USD 75 billion dollar and it has granted a whopping USD 7.4 billion for various developmental and capacity building projects ...

Russia is an important partner for India in peaceful uses of nuclear energy. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, chairing the 21st India-Russia Inter-Governmental Consultations, looked at ways to enhance the mutual direct investment to $15 billion by 2025. India and Russia today discussed ...

The Indian Investment Initiative was launched on 9th Oct which aims to bring investment from Indian diaspora living in the US. The initiative was launched in partnership with US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Calvert Foundation. The highlights of this initiative are: This is first of this kind of ...

India hopes to sign three large agreements on water, energy and education, during Indian President Pranab Mukherjee’s state visit to Israel. Ever since India established diplomatic relations with Jewish State in January 1992, bilateral cooperation between the two countries has increased. Indian multinationals have made long-term investments to the tune ...

PM Narendra Modi has said that Germany will provide India more than 2 billion euros ($2.25 billion) for developing a clean energy corridor and solar projects. PM has made ambitious renewable energy targets a key part of his development agenda and climate change mitigation commitments ahead of a landmark international ...