External Affairs

Led by India, a number of countries joined the battle against the Chinese move, even launching a protest at UNGA president, Sam Kutesa’s residence. A few days before the UNGA session, Chinese and Russian diplomats, in a stealth operation, attempted to insert a couple of paragraphs into the text and ...

France has pledged support for India’s claim to permanent membership at the Security Council. France reaffirmed its commitment to issues of international peace and security, especially counter-terrorism. It also registered its opposition to atrocities against humans and destruction of heritage property. Source: ET

The two sides of the unique Challenge Coin created by the India-US Joint Working Group on Aircraft Career after their first meeting in United States from August 12-14 to symbolize their partnership. One side of the coin reads “Forward Together We Go” and “Chale Chale Saath Saath” in Hindi; which ...

India-Vietnam are pushing to broadbase their relations to encompass all possible areas of cooperation and deepen their strategic partnership building on exceptionally close ties since their foundations were laid more than 50 years ago. India’s relations with Vietnam are marked by growing economic and commercial engagement. India is now among ...

India’s bid for permanent membership in United Nations Security Council (UNSC) got a big momentum on Monday after UN general assembly (UNGA) agreed to have a common negotiating text for Security Council reforms. But how close India is remains a speculative question and experts of global affairs say that still ...

In BRICS, Brazil has been downgraded to `junk’ and China is battling a growth slowdown. Russia has been the worst-affected by the commodities slump and South Africa’s economy is flirting with contraction. India, on the other hand, is expected to emerge as the world’s fastest growing major economy. Source: ET

India’s goal of becoming a permanent member of the UN security council took a significant step forward. India’s UN ambassador Asoke Mukerji described it as “historic and path-breaking” decision and has significant three counts. It is the first time in the history of the intergovernmental negotiation (IGN) process that a ...

News:  The ambassador to India, for UN Security Council, Richard Verma, said that, the US “strongly supports” India’s bid for a permanent seat in an expanded US Security Council. We know there have been reports to the contrary, but they are not backed by truth. We want to clarify that US supports ...

News: The Myawaddy-Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section of the Asian highway linking India, Myanmar and Thailand has been put into service. With the 25.6-km-long section becoming operational, travel time between Thinggan Nyenaung and Kawkareik will be reduced from three hours to 45 minutes. The Asian highway runs from Moreh in India to ...

News: A 33-year-old Indian aspiring air hostess, who travelled to the UAE to fulfill her dream but was allegedly held captive by traffickers, has been rescued after Sushma Swaraj intervened following her brother’s desperate tweet to the External Affairs Minister. The next day, Swaraj tweeted to her brother with the good news: “We have ...