External Affairs

News: Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal, with an agreement that could transform the Middle East, and which Israel called an “historic surrender”. Under the deal, sanctions imposed by the US, EU and UN would be lifted in return for Iran agreeing long-term curbs on a Nuclear ...

News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited all the five Central Asian Republics with the aim of  generating as much international cooperation as possible for his primary domestic agenda of generating jobs, Make in India, Skill India and starting the second green revolution. Here are some of the highlights and key takeaways ...

News: Middle powers hold the key economically and geopolitically for India’s growth and security. Modi’s international engagements were a continuation of India’s foreign policy and he injected a new energy into the relationships with neighbors like Bhutan and Nepal, and major powers like China and the U.S. which has been ...

News: Use of the Ayni airbase for the Indian Air Force, tops the agenda for discussion with Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Ayni airbase near Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe has long been key to expanding India’s strategic footprint in Central Asia. The origins of the airbase ...

News: Memorandum of understanding on supply of chemical products between the Indian Public Sector undertaking ‘Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited’ and the Turkmen State concern ‘Turkmenhimiya’. Memorandum of understanding between the Foreign Service Institute of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Republic of India and the Institute of International ...

News: The Prime Minister electronically unveiled a plaque commemorating the inauguration of the extreme high altitude test laboratory, Phase 2 of the Kyrgyz-India Mountain Biomedical Research Centre project and situated in the Syok Pass at an altitude of 4000 metres. Modi said that the research done at this Centre will ...

News: PM’s trip to five countries in Central Asia in one go, as well as Russia, from July 6 to 13, have boosted India’s multi-directional strategy. They have strengthened India’s presence in a geopolitically vital region labelled historically as the ‘heartland’ determining the fate of the world. Beijing’s inroads in ...

News: The Beijing-based Shanghai Cooperation Organisation currently has China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan as members. India made an application last year for full membership of the grouping whose focus is on connectivity, counter-terrorism cooperation, bolstering cooperation in energy sector, enhancing trade and dealing with drug trafficking. India, which ...

News: PM has proposed a 10-point initiative that includes India hosting the first trade fair for the grouping and establishing research centres for railways and agriculture. Calling it ‘Das Kadam: Ten Steps for the Future’, PM has put forward new initiatives for the BRICS . The proposed initiatives for the ...

News: Modi strongly took up the issue of China blocking the resolution for action by the United Nations against Pakistan on the release of jailed Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. Prime Minister Modion Wednesday “strongly” and “clearly” conveyed concerns to China’s President Xi Jinping over China blocking the proposal. Modi also voiced India’s concerns ...