India, China hold strategic dialogue
The Dollar Business Bureau India and China on Wednesday conducted a strategic dialogue to strengthen their bilateral relations. This is the first ever strategic dialogue between the two nations nearly 67 years after they established diplomatic relations, and the first ‘strategic dialogue meet’ after 30 bilateral dialogues that happened over the years. Many have labelled this visit by the Indian foreign secretary as a significant one albeit not as historic as Nehru’s visit in 1954 or Rajiv Gandhi’s visit in 1988 nor the recent visit by PM Modi in 2015, but significantly important and strategic enough for the world to sit up and notice. The foremost agenda of the foreign secretary is to try and understand China’s reluctance to support India’s membership ...
Modi in Moscow: defence, nuclear, trade high on agenda
The Dollar Business Bureau During the 15th Annual India-Russia summit in New Delhi in December 2014, the two leaders had adopted vision document called Druzhba-Dosti to strengthen Indian-Russian partnership over the next decade Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a two-day visit to Russia for the 16th annual summit with President Vladimir Putin that will be aimed at expanding their agreements in a broad range of fields, especially nuclear energy, defence and hydrocarbon. This will be the Prime Minister’s second visit to Russia during the current year. He had earlier visited Russian city of Ufa to take part in the SCO and BRICS Summits. “We expect to sign a number of agreements covering a broad range of fields. Final ...