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India, Seychelles Deepen Parliamentary Ties
GG News Bureau
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday held a bilateral parliamentary dialogue with Speaker of the National Assembly of Seychelles Azarel Yolanda Ernesta and a parliamentary delegation from Seychelles,…
India, China, South Korea Join Nepal Tunnel Rescue
By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON - Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that specialized tunnel rescue teams from India and China, South Korea have joined the Nepal Army at critical hydropower tunnel sites to search and rescue…
Mass Burials and Global Grief: Nepal-China Flash Floods Leave Over 1,000 Foreigners Missing
Poonam Sharma
The mountain valleys of Nepal and China are reeling from a devastating aftermath as flash floods have not only swept away villages and infrastructure but also the lives of more than a thousand foreign nationals. In a grim…
Modi-Xi-Putin Handshake Signals India-China Engagement
By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday exchanged handshakes, it was a warm and closely watched moment in Bishkek ahead of the 26th Shanghai…
Modi-Putin-Xi Handshake: The Picture That Tells All About India’s Diplomatic Confidence
Poonam Sharma
Sometimes international diplomacy is not spelled out in a long declaration but a few seconds of human interaction. This is just the kind of moment that the brief handshake between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian…
OCHA reports rising death toll, voices concern for women and girls in Nepal floods
By Anjali Sharma
UNITED NATIONS - UN aid coordination office OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke, on Tuesday said that as rescue efforts continue in Nepal, humanitarians are focused on how the deadly flash floods have impacted women and girls,…
OCHA head warns Ebola response must outpace spread in DRC
By Anjali Sharma
UNITED NATIONS – UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher warned on Tuesday that the world must move faster to contain an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that is growing exponentially
He noted…
Guterres calls for wider global governance representation at SCO summit
By Anjali Sharma
UNITED NATIONS - UN head António Guterres on Tuesday urged world leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to help reshape global governance for a changing world, argued that a more multi polar international order…
India, Denmark Step Up MSME Cooperation
The 4th India–Denmark Joint Working Group meeting was held in Copenhagen from August 24–28.
Discussions focused on technology adoption, innovation, IP, entrepreneurship and MSME clusters.
Indian delegates visited Denmark’s…
India, Nepal Deepen Multilingual AI Cooperation
BHASHINI SANGAM workshop brought together government, academia, technology and research stakeholders in Kathmandu.
India and Nepal explored co-creation of language datasets and locally relevant AI applications.
Live demonstrations…