This week WorldView comes to you from Pakistan. S. Jaishankar traveled to Islamabad for the SCO and meetings with Pakistan Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Dr. Jaishankar’s visit to Pakistan for one of many firsts: – First visit by any Indian minister since 2016- when Home Minister Rajnath Singh attended the SAARC meet – First … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first foreign visit will likely be to Italy. Following his re-election, PM Modi has accepted invitation from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to participate in the G7 Summit, scheduled from June 13 to 15 in Borgo Egnazia, Apulia. According to a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs, Modi conversed with … Read more
In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, April 26, 2024, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, fourth right, and Minister of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China Dong Jun, fours left, attend the talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defense Ministers’ Meeting in Astana, … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend next week’s virtual summit of the SCO hosted by India said the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying | file photo | Photo Credit: Reuters Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend next week’s virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) being hosted by India, an official announcement here … Read more
China held its first ever summit with the heads of state of five Central Asian countries in-person on May 18-19 in Xian by emphasizing on building greater political and economic partnership between the two sides. In the presence of Heads of State of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, Chinese President Xi Jinping, unveiled a … Read more
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu at a meeting in Moscow. | Photo Credit: AFP India will host Defence Ministers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) grouping, including China’s Li Shangfu and Russia’s Sergei Shoigu, later this week, India’s Ministry of Defence said on April 25. While Pakistan Defence Minister … Read more
China’s Defence Minister General Li Shangfu. File | Photo Credit: Reuters China’s newly appointed Defence Minister, General Li Shangfu, is set to make his first visit to India in April, which is also set to be the first high-level military visit from China since the Line of Actual Control (LAC) crisis began in 2020. Separately, … Read more
The two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Tourism Ministers’ meeting began on Friday in Varanasi with a likely joint action plan on the development of cooperation in tourism to be adopted during the gathering. The plan will include promotion of the cultural heritage of the SCO member states, promotion of the SCO tourism brand, sharing and … Read more
An array of posters against drug abuse are displayed at the Government General Hospital at Kozhikode beach. File photo | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday, Janury 18, 2023, organised a virtual Expert Working Group Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member-countries on the issue of “precursor control”. The … Read more
Trade with Russia in rupees will soon start as top lender State Bank of India has agreed to facilitate the new mechanism, the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) president A Shaktivel said on Wednesday. India’s exports to Russia took a hit after the West imposed sanctions on Moscow for its late-February military offensive against … Read more