External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will be on a three-day visit to the United Arab Emirates from August 31 to carry out a review of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries. Mr. Jaishankar, alongside his UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will review the partnership during the 14th India-UAE Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) and the third India-UAE Strategic Dialogue. "These meetings will provide an opportunity to both the ministers to review the entire spectrum of comprehensive strategic partnership between India and UAE and regional and glo
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will go on a three-day trip to Uzbekistan on Tuesday for SCO Defence Ministers' meet aiming to broaden the defense partnership with Eurasia. In September, Singh is planning to tour Egypt for a long-awaited bilateral engagement that has received enormous attention since last year. Singh will meet his Chinese and Russian counterparts at the SCO meet. The meeting held in the countdown to the SCO Summit gathers importance amid current geopolitical stress. He will also meet the defense Minister of Uzbekistan, Lieutenant General Bakhodir Kurbanov. Furthermore, t
Israel has launched flights allowing Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to fly abroad from an airport in the Negev region in Southern Isreal. The first flight, which had a tourist group from the West Bank consisting of doctors, pharmacists, and their families, took off on Monday from Ramon Airport to Larnaca Airport in Cyprus. Ghassan Olyan, the Israeli government’s activities coordinator in the Palestinian territories, said that the Palestinian's travel from the West Bank through an Israeli airport “is historic and unprecedented. It was a dream and became a reality.” How
China and India could become world leaders in “clean” hydrogen, according to Jane Nakano, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. However, Nakano found China is still making and using gray hydrogen — a type of hydrogen obtained from natural gas and produced from fossil fuels and is the least renewable form of hydrogen. She also said that the hydrogen market is not big at present and that it will take time to commercialize it. "I think both China and India have potential to become major powers… not just as a potential supplier and also expo
Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have stressed the importance of strengthening joint Arab action and Arab unity to address the challenges facing the Arab world. On Sunday, Egypt's presidential spokesman Bassam Rady said that both leaders discussed both regional and international issues during their meeting at El Alamein, a coastal city in northern Egypt. During their meeting at El Alamein, a coastal city in northern Egypt, the two leaders also exchanged views on both international and regional issues, Egypt's presiden
On Friday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met envoys of Latin American and Caribbean countries. The focus of the meeting was to boat overall bilateral ties ahead of Jaishankar’s visit to South America. He tweeted on his official handle, “Pleasure to host Ambassadors in New Delhi from the Group of Latin America and the Caribbean countries- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican, Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, and Uruguay”. He further added that there is a lot of potential for growing the cooperation between the nations and
On Wednesday, information released by the country's Finance Ministry, Japan resumed its purchases of Russian oil in July. Due to the sanctions related to Ukraine, imports of Russian crude fell to zero in June. Despite not disclosing the exact volume, the oil ministry said July imports from Russia were 65.4% lower than last year. In July 2021, LNG imports from Russia decreased by 26.1%, while coal imports decreased by 40.1%. The price of global commodities rose 45.1% despite the decline in physical volumes of Russian fuel exports to Japan last year. Tokyo will gradually reduce its dep
A missile defense exercise conducted by the United States and its top two Asian allies Japan and South Korea, off Hawaii has raised the profile of military exercises that demonstrate cooperation in the face of threats. A missile warning and ballistic missile search and tracking exercise were conducted during the multinational Pacific Dragon drills Aug 8-14. In a statement, the Pentagon said the three countries demonstrated their commitment to addressing North Korea's threats, ensuring shared security, and bolstering the rules-based international order. As a result of South Korea's 2016
The UK will shortly receive liquefied natural gas from Australia for the first time in six years, showcasing the European region’s torment in struggling with its worst energy crisis in decades. The LNG tanker Attalos is en route to the UK with a cargo that started at Australia’s North West Shelf project, according to energy intelligence firm Kpler, According to the ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg show, the vessel will reach the Isle of Grain terminal in the east London on Aug. 22 The UK and Europe usually import LNG from countries like Qatar, the US, and even Peru. Because
P. M Modi, addressing the nation from the red fort on the occasion of the 75th year of India's independence, said that the country was entering a crucial stage in its war against corruption, nepotism, and misogyny, among others. He also said these practices are not only prevalent in the political realm but also existed in other societal institutions and public life and, though it's challenging to combat them, the country would do so. In his speech, which was his ninth consecutive speech from the Red Fort, the P.M said the completion of 75 years of independence was a historic time for the c