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More than six months after the grandly-staged India-Africa Forum Summit, Vice-President Hamid Ansari heads on the first such trip to the North African countries of Morocco and Tunisia.
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Pledging to develop the Northeast region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the NDA government at the Centre is keen on reducing isolation of the northeastern states through its ambitious Act East Policy for all-round connectivity of the region.
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Pledging to combat terrorism and radicalism along with bolstering economic partnership, India and Iran inked 12 pacts including a pact on developing the Chabahar port that is of critical strategic importance to India.
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In a game-changer for enhancing regional connectivity, India, Iran and Afghanistan have signed a landmark pact for Trilateral Transport & Transit Corridor and another bilateral pact between New Delhi and Tehran.
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Amid China’s growing assertiveness in the Asia-Pacific Region, the US is considering lifting the arms embargo against Vietnam ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to Hanoi on May 23.
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The BJP’s political star is in the ascendant, with a historic victory in the Assembly elections in Assam and significant inroads in Kerala and West Bengal.
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Seeking to reach out to the Sikh community, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a formal statement of apology in the Canadian House of Commons for the Komagata Maru incident on May 18.
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India and Pakistan sparred over the draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill on May 17, with Pakistan expressing “serious concern” to the United Nations over the Jammu and Kashmir map.
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For the first time, India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sent a ‘formal request’ to Pakistan, seeking permission to visit the country to probe January’s Pathankot terror attack.
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India’s membership of multilateral nuclear export regimes has become a high-stakes game, with China mobilizing opposition and the US throwing its full weight behind New Delhi’s aspiration in the run-up to the NSG plenary next month.
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