Xi pitches for closer ties with Bangladesh, calls for joint promotion of Belt Road Initiative
Bangladesh also is among over a dozen countries where the final phase of clinical trials of Chinese vaccine is being conducted.
India
Legislation introduced to boost India-US clean energy and climate cooperation
The activities under the CEPTP include promoting joint research and development on clean energy technologies, encouraging US private investment in the Indian clean energy market and supporting initiatives to develop new and renewable energy generation capacity in India.
Strategic Energy Partnership emerged as cornerstone of expanding India-US ties: Envoy
India’s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, in an op-ed in The Houston Chronicle, wrote that numbers speak for themselves.
Rajnath Singh unveils new Defence Acquisition Procedure
Under the new policy, the offset guidelines have also been revised facilitating preference to defence majors offering to manufacture products in India over relevant components.
Reform of UN is ‘the need of the hour’: India premier
Indian leader pledged that, as the largest vaccine producing nation in the world, India would use its capacity to help all humanity in fighting the crisis.
12 factors driving Indian Americans towards Trump: Survey
“It is mostly about the Trump-Modi factor,” the survey said, adding that Indian Americans increasingly believe that the teamwork of Trump and Modi over the next four years will successfully checkmate China at the world stage
Terrorism, clandestine nuclear trade Pakistan’s ‘only glory’ for 70 years: India hits out at UN
India firmly said, “The only dispute left in Kashmir relates to the part of Kashmir that is still under illegal occupation of Pakistan. We call upon Pakistan to vacate all those areas”
Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent only capable of small-scale regional attacks: US official
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent was set up by al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2014 to expand the terror group’s influence in the region.
G4 countries reiterate their demand for UN reforms
They also expressed their concern at the lack of any meaningful movement forward in the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) on Security Council reform
The India-Uzbekistan Partnership in Peace Building in Afghanistan
During his current address the Uzbek President has proposed a new strategic format of international cooperation on Afghanistan – the creation of a Permanent Committee (PC) at the UN (PCUN).