External Affairs

News: Ministry of external affairs decided to rely on Aadhaar card for identification of the applicant for passport and on the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) database for validation of his/her criminal antecedents with the simplified police verification system. The home and law ministries, and the Intelligence Bureau, the government, on the ...

News: Taiwan’s Quanta Computer the world’s top contract PC manufacturer which makes laptops and assembles watches for Apple, is considering to establish a manufacturing base in India. Quanta’s move comes after its rival Foxconn, announced that it will likely plow billions of dollars into establishing 10 to 12 facilities in India ...

News: Tokyo is likely to change its policy to allow reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from Japanese-made reactors. Since the 2011 Fukushima tragedy, Japan had concluded civil pacts with six countries including Jordan, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam, but has not approved reprocessing of spent fuel generated by Japanese-made nuclear reactors. ...

News: Pakistan has released 113 Indian fishermen following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to his Pakistani counterpart  to offer Ramazan wishes. The fishermen were in a jail in Karachi for nine months to a year. Now, they  were put on a train from Karachi to Lahore from where they will cross ...

News: Nearly 300 deals worth USD 55 billion have been signed at the 3rd China-South Asia Expo in Kunming, capital of the southwestern Yunnan Province. The signed contracts included 255 domestic investment projects with a value of 300 billion yuan (USD 49 billion) and 44 foreign investment and trade deals ...

News: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering revising regulations that would allow Foreign Students on F1 visas to work in the United States for upto six years Jobs/Employment under the Optimal Practical Training Program. Optional Practical Training (OPT) and Curricular Practical Training are two employment options available to students on an F1 ...

News: India is mulling the possibility of joint naval exercises with Japan and Australia to further strengthen the blossoming military relationship between the three countries.  India had received a strong protest from China the last time when it had carried out such joint talks with the US in 2007. But ...

Teesta Deal: The Teesta deal was set to be inked during the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Bangladesh in September 2011 but was postponed at the last minute due to objections by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Teesta water is crucial for Bangladesh, especially in the leanest ...

News: Australia has lined up investments worth USD 10 billion for India as it is looking for greater co-operation with the country. Description: Australian High Commissioner to India Patrick Suckling  has said that one of the key elements of Indian foreign policy is ensuring its energy security and Australia can ...

India – Bangladesh border disputes While India and Bangladesh share one of the world’s longest land borders, crossing it isn’t easy. Cargo trucks drive hundreds of miles through a chokepoint known as the Chicken’s Neck to circumvent Bangladesh and reach India’s isolated northeast states. Shipping containers can make detours as ...