India & The World
- Vice-President concluded three-day visit to Hungary (Free Available)
- India declared its commitment to play role in energising the Bay of Bengal community (Free Available)
- India offered to help in reconciliation of Myanmar (Free Available)
- India extended support to Myanmar (Free Available)
- Sino-Indian military exercise in Ladakh (Free Available)
- A support scheme for the Nitaqat to help Indian workers (Free Available)
- India and Russia called for collective action against terrorism (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India and Russia to bring back old dynamism (Only for Online Coaching Members)
Vice-President concluded three-day visit to Hungary
- Vice-President Hamid Ansari concluded his three-day visit to Hungary and flew to Algiers on the next leg of the two-nation trip.
- He called on President Janos André at the presidential palace after a meeting with the Speaker of the National Assembly, Laszlo Kover, at Parliament House in the forenoon.
- Vice-President drove down from Budapest to the quaint resort town of Balatonfured and paid homage to the memory of Rabindranath Tagore who in 1926 spent a few weeks there 90 years ago.
- He was convalescing here for a few weeks after suffering a heart ailment during a visit to Budapest, where he arrived on October 26. Tagore loved Hungary and has written of it.
India declared its commitment to play role in energising the Bay of Bengal community
- India declared its commitment to play an “asymmetric” role in energising the Bay of Bengal community that held its first global diplomatic outreach during the weekend with the BRICS countries.
- Diplomats said the response of BIMSTEC countries to India’s call for greater engagement has rejuvenated the organisation, and diplomats are now “duty-bound” to take the organisation to a cooperative future.
- BIMSTEC-BRICS outreach eclipsed the SAARC event that was planned for Islamabad in November but was postponed after several member countries withdrew, citing cross-border terrorism and Pakistan’s interventionist policy.
- However issues of unsettled borders, refugee issues and ethnic tension among BIMSTEC member countries would pose a challenge to the grouping, especially the Rohingya issue between Bangladesh and Myanmar,