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The Dollar Business Bureau  Based on the theme of ‘Future Energy’, India’s Pavilion at the ongoing international exhibition Expo 2017 in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, is attracting a lot of visitors. The participation of India at the event has been organised by the nodal body of the government to promote country's external trade - India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO).  The pavilion was jointly inaugurated by L. C. Goyal, Commissioner, India Pavilion and CMD, ITPO and Harsh Kumar Jain, Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan. The Expo, which is being held from June 10- September 10, 2017, is witnessing participation from 100 nations and more than 10 international organisations. The participation of India at this year’s Expo has become quite significant ...

The Dollar Business Bureau Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Kazakhstan on Thursday to attend the two-day summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). During the summit to be held on June 8-9 in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, India is set to become a member of the SCO. The Prime Minister will also attend the inauguration of the Astana Expo 2017 on Friday which is based on the theme of ‘Future Energy’ this year. “At this meeting, on completion of the process, India will become a full Member of the SCO upon which SCO will represent over 40% of humanity and nearly 20% of global GDP,” the PM wrote. “We launched the process of full membership in Tashkent meeting of the SCO last year. I look forward to deepening India’s ...

The Dollar Business Bureau India and Pakistan's admission as full members to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will be formalised at the political and security grouping's summit in Kazakhstan next week, China announced today, while hoping that they would "strictly follow" its charter. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying hoped that the admission of India and Pakistan as full members would help improve their bilateral relations. "Hope India and Pakistan strictly follow the charter of the SCO and the idea of good neighbourliness, uphold the SCO spirit, improve their relations and inject new impetus to the development of the SCO," Hua told a media briefing here. She confirmed that the lengthy process of their admission into the group, which took years ...

The Dollar Business Bureau Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday signed the MoU of obligation in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Modi underscored that the partnership will help protect the region from threats of radicalisation, violence and terror and drive the region’s economic growth. “India may benefit from the grouping's strengths in energy and natural resources and in turn India's strong economy and vast market could drive economic growth in the SCO region,” Modi said. India’s overall volume in trade, information and communication technology, investments, agriculture, space, health care, small and medium scale industry can bring wide spread economic benefit to the SCO countries including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and China, noted the Prime Minister. India needs to sign 30 ...

The Dollar Business Bureau President Pranab Mukherjee, on Thursday, stated that India and China are set to play a “significant and constructive” role in the 21st century. Addressing a crowd of Vice Chancellors and heads of higher education institutions of the two countries, at Peking University, in Beijing, the President reiterated that India is one of the brightly placed global economies, and efforts are being made to stimulate the country’s future economic growth at a much better pace. Mukherjee witnessed the signing of 10 MoUs for cooperation between the institutions of India and China, where he made a special emphasis on India’s renewed thrust on research and innovation. He mentioned that significant investments are being made on upgradation of technology. “While R&D expenditure as ...

Source: PTI   Prime Ministers of the six-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) held talks in central China's Henan province on Tuesday to improve regional cooperation in areas like trade, investment, transportation and security. Welcoming foreign leaders to the meeting, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said that since it was established in 2001, the SCO has become an important force promoting regional stability, prosperity and development. He said he believed that every SCO meeting will contribute to cooperation between member countries as well as regional development, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The meeting was also attended by Minister of State for External Affairs General V K Singh. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also attended the two-day meeting in Zhengzhou that began on Monday. ...

Source: PTI The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi at the Plenary Session of SCO Heads of State Council, in Ufa, Russia on July 10, 2015. Source: PIB, Government of India   Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) today decided to include India as a full member, prompting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to offer to work with the six- member grouping to enhance connectivity, combat terror and create an environment for boosting trade by easing barriers. India, which has an 'observer' status for the past 10 years, will technically become the member by next year after completion of certain procedures. Beijing-based SCO currently has China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan as members. Along with India, the process to include Pakistan as a member was ...