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Pannun 'murder plot': Why West must cease its 'My terrorist is good and yours is bad' approach
Anil Trigunayat •The issue of security is as paramount and sacrosanct for any nation as it is for America or any other power that has the capacity to operate wherever required and has done so repeatedly
Pannun ‘murder plot’: Time for the West to harmonise unwritten codes
Tara Kartha •In the US, the threats that Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has made are serious. If such threats were made against President Biden in India, the US would demand action within 48 hours
If we take US prosecutors seriously, Austin Powers directed India’s ‘murder plot’ of Pannun on American soil
Sreemoy Talukdar •The entire case reeks of a bad Hollywood plot in a C-grade film where the audience is asked to suspend disbelief at gunpoint
Africa an important partner in India’s rise as economic power, says Sherpa for 15th BRICS Summit
•Dammu Ravi, secretary, Economic Relations in the Ministry of External Affairs and the Sherpa for the 15th BRICS Summit, on Tuesday said India will soon be the third largest economy, adding that Africa was an important partner in the country's emergence as an economic power
Why India has asked its nationals to leave Niger 'as soon as possible'
Fp Explainers •In its advisory on Friday (11 August), MEA asked Indians to leave coup-hit Niger. The foreign ministry also urged citizens to rethink their travel plans to the West African nation, which saw a military takeover and ousting of its elected president on 26 July
EAM Jaishankar begins four-nation Central, Latin America visit today
Fp Staff •EAM S Jaishankar will make official visits to Guyana (21-23 April), Panama (24-25 April), Colombia (25-27 April) and the Dominican Republic (27-29 April), the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said
India holds 100th G20 meet under its presidency of bloc
Fp Staff •The 100 meetings have been held across 41 cities, covering 28 states and union territories of India, the Ministry of External Affairs said
EAM Jaishankar to visit Uganda, Mozambique to strenghthen bilateral ties
Fp Staff •Jaishankar will also inaugurate the transit campus of the National Forensic Science University (NFSU) in the Ugandan city of Jinja. Both countries will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on creating the first overseas campus of NFSU
Attempts to assign invented names won't alter reality: India reacts as China renames 11 places in Arunachal
Umang Sharma •China has for the third time made an attempt to lay claim to areas inside the Indian territory by renaming 11 places in India’s Arunachal Pradesh which it calls 'Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet'
Trade settlement between India, Malaysia now possible in Indian Rupee
•"India International Bank of Malaysia (IIBM), based in Kuala Lumpur, has operationalised this mechanism by opening a Special Rupee Vostro Account through its Corresponding Bank in India i.e. Union Bank of India," the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on Saturday.