Copernicus - European Union’s Earth Observation and Monitoring Programme and Indian fleet of Remote Sensing Satellites will now be sharing Earth Observation Satellite Data to allow the benefits to extend beyond the borders of the partners, as per a landmark Cooperation Arrangement signed on March 19, 2018 at Bengaluru between European Commission (EC) and India’s Department of Sp...
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India-France Strategic Partnership on a Solid Foundation
French President Emmanuel Macron during his State Visit to India from 10 to 12 March 2018 held wide ranging discussions with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that underlined the growing convergence between the two countries on regional and international issues as the two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to deepen and strengthen bilateral ties based on shared principles and values of democr...
India’s Splendid Performances at Commonwealth Games
Gold Coast 2018 officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games, an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, were held between 4 and 15 April 2018 in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; in which some of the world’s best athletes from 71 nations and territories competed in 275 events in 19 sports and 7 Para-sports; with its main venue...
India has kept its Indus Waters Treaty commitments
Permanent Indus Commission’s 114th Meeting between India and Pakistan was held on March 29 and 30, 2018 in New Delhi to discuss Indus Water Treaty (IWT) dispute and resolution of outstanding issues. India’s Indus water commissioner PK Saxena and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) officials were part of Indian delegation and Pakistan’s six-member delegation was led by Syed Muhammad Mehar Ali Shah...
India & Nepal to Boost Connectivity between the Two Countries
Nepal’s Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oliwason a State visit to India from April 6 to 8, 2018, at the invitation of India’s Prime Minister NarendraModi. The two Prime Ministers comprehensively reviewed the entire spectrum of multifaceted ties between the two countries,underlined the need for expeditious implementation of bilateral projects in Nepal, and to reinvigorate the existing bilateral mecha...
GSAT-6A Will Provide Mobile Communication to Armed Forces
GSAT-6A, a communication satellite that will provide new possibilities for mobile applications, was successfully launched into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on board India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle - GSLV-F08 with indigenous Cryogenic Upper Stage on Thursday March 29, 2018. This launch of GSLV was its twelfth and took place from the Second Launch Pad at Sat...
Electoral Bonds to Bring Transparency in Election Funding
In a significant development to evolve a transparent political funding system and to cleanse the system of political funding in the country and in keeping with the government’s desire to move to a cashless economy, the government of India has come up with the new scheme of electoral bonds. In the new mechanism of electoral funding through issuance of bonds the quantum of money which a donor has contributed to a ...
DefExpo 2018 to Boost Defence Manufacturing in India
DefExpo 2018 or Defence Expo 2018’ held in Chennai at Tiruvidanthal, in Kancheepuram district from 11 to 14 April 2018with its tag line “India: The Emerging Defence Manufacturing Hub”to showcase India’s capability in export of defence systems and components hada gathering of defence industry representatives from private and public sector representing some 500 Indian companies an...
Jordan an Oasis of Stability & Peace in the Troubled Middle East
Jordanian King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein was in Delhi from February 27 to March 1, 2018 and held bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 1, 2018; before both the leaders addressed a gathering of prominent representatives of various sects of Islam in India, at a conference on "Islamic Heritage: Promoting Understanding and Moderation". King Abdullah II w...
Prime Minister’s Tour of Arab Countries includes Historic Visit to Palestine
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s four nation tour of Arab countries was the visit to an extended maritime neighbourhood and the key priority in external relations in terms of engagement with the Gulf countries. This was his 5th visit to the Gulf and the West Asian region since 2015. PM arrived at Amman on the 9th of February 2018 and this visit to Jor...