Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in India
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is believed to have played a role in securing the release of IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman from Pakistani custody
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Month: March 2019
Saudi’s Falih says no OPEC+ output policy change until June
Along with China and the U.S., India’s expanding economy was driving global oil demand growth.
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China’s stand in the recent India-Pakistan tensions reinforces incremental pro-India tilt in Beijing
Dr Swaran Singh is professor of Diplomacy and Disarmament at School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. He specialises in Asia Affairs with focus on China-India relations and is visiting faculty at several Chinese and other Asian Universities. He regularly contributes to media and lectures at various national and international defence and foreign policy institutions. He spoke to IAR on India-China relations and Beijing’s stand on the latest round of India-Pakistan tensions.
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“Israel should consider India as the biggest manufacturing hub”
Eddna Samuel is a Mumbai-based entrepreneur and event manager, currently heading MOTIF Advertising. Motif is majorly focused on enhancing and deepening business and trade ties between India and Israel and has been organizing a series of B2B meetings between Indian and Israeli entrepreneurs and corporate houses. The next such B2B meeting will be taking place in Tel Aviv in June 2019 and Samuel will be leading a big business delegation from India. IAR caught up with Eddna to get a sense of where India-Israel business ties are headed:
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UNESCO #WIKI4WOMEN WORLD CONTRIBUTORY MOVEMENT INVISIBLE, NO MORE
#WIKI4WOMEN is an initiative led by UNESCO and Wikimedia
Women’s Day Special: Women and the Iranian Revolution: A Historical Perspective
Women’s movement in Iran cannot be understood without tying it to people’s nationalist, democratic, and anti-imperialist struggles
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Work-related gender gaps persist but solutions are clear – new ILO report
International Women’s Day
Work-related gender gaps have not seen any meaningful improvement for 20 years, but a new ILO report says that the path to progress is clear.
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Who owns the fight for LGBT+ rights in the Arab world?
Luxembourg’s prime minister’s called out homophobia in the Arab world at the Arab League-EU summit
LGBT+ relationships are illegal across most of the Middle East and North Africa
After Netanyahu’s Moscow visit Iran insists Moscow ties ‘strong’
On a visit to Moscow last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had met with Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Alarming global surge of measles cases a growing threat to children–UNICEF
Ten countries accounted for approximately three-quarters of the total increase in measles in 2018,including significant outbreaks inBrazil, Madagascar, the Philippines, Ukraine, and Yemen
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