This section includes articles on recent visits of foreign dignitaries to India and outgoing visits of Indian leaders to other nations of the world. Read articles on a wide range of topics related to the new developments in India's foreign policy.
Conceived as an international mechanism for governance of the global economy, the G20, which includes all the major economies, has, over time, evolved into one of the most powerful economic and financial groupings. Formally known a....
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India’s foreign policy in the 21st century has been dominated by the quest for creating an enabling environment in its neighbourhood and the world, which allows its economy to grow, its society to develop and its soft power to fl....
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The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is an organisation which brings together Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Bhutan and Nepal. The aim of this regional org....
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India and China, have contributed the concept of “informal summits” to global diplomatic practice. The seminal Wuhan Informal Summit held between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in April 2018, is a perfe....
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Indian foreign policy in the Middle East under the Narendra Modi government has come into its own. The recently-concluded first state visit of Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and also the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of ....
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With an aim to strengthen India’s bilateral ties with the Republic of Korea (ROK) in diverse areas including trade and investment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a two-day visit to Seoul from February 21 to 22, 2019. PM Modi....
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Against the backdrop of India’s renewed interest in the Latin American region, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu made a state visit to Paraguay and Costa Rica from March 5 to 9, 2019. Aimed at stepping up political engagement and increasing trade and....
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With 31 million people of Indian origin scattered across the world, the Indian diaspora is the second-largest in the world after China. Indians residing in foreign countries are seen as representatives of the nation’s talent, culture and skills acr....
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It was a historic occasion when India’s Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, addressed the inaugural plenary of the 46th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Ma....
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In 2018, when External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was on an official visit to Uzbekistan in August 2018, she was pleasantly surprised by an elderly Uzbek woman on the streets of the country’s capital Tashkent, who sang the song “Ichak dana bi....
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