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Bangladesh envoy apprises India of problems faced due to Rohingya exodus
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 9 (ANI): Bangladesh High Commissoner Syed Muazzem Ali met Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar in New Delhi on Saturday and apprised him of the problems caused due to Rohingya Muslims amid their rising exodus from Myanmar's Rakhine State.
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BRICS Summit: Peace, tranquility at border a pre-requisite for India-China
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Xiamen [China], September 5 (ANI): Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping affirmed that the maintenance of peace and tranquility along the border was a pre-requisite for the further development of relations
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Maori greeting could be misinterpreted as 'headbutt': UK Foreign
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [US], July. 25 (ANI): UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who has a history being gaffe-prone, joked that the traditional Maori greeting 'hongi', in which people press their foreheads and noses together, could be mistaken for a headbutt.
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India must adopt a 'government approach' to challenges like Chin
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Pitching for the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) to play a more proactive and responsible role in implementing policy-related projects and face existing geo-political challenges professionally, former foreign secretary Shyam Saran said Thursday, "We simpl
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Necessary for India, China to resolve legacy issues such as borders: Shyam
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran has said both India and China should take steps to try and resolve existing legacy issues such as reaching an understanding on demarcation of borders.
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Doklam Impasse: India should not engage China in 'tit for tat' r
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran on Thursday said there was no need for India to look for what he called a "tit-for-tat" kind of exchange with China over the current impasse in a tri-junction border area in the Doklam Plateau that involves Bhut
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China dismisses Jaishankar's comment, says withdraw troops to resolve
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 12 (ANI): China has reiterated that the standoff in the Sikkim sector is "different" and to "settle disputes" India should recall troops who crossed over the China-India boundary as it played down Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar's remark t
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U.S. not withdrawing from world, it is seeking better deals: Jaishankar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Singapore City [Singapore], July 11 (ANI): Deliberating on United States' changing global strategic approach, Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar said that Washington is not 'withdrawing' as is being widely speculated, but is instead seeking to negotiate a better deal.
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India sees Japan as its special strategic partner: Jaishankar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Singapore City [Singapore], July 11 (ANI): Japan has steadily emerged as a special strategic partner of India and is committed to its infrastructure modernisation, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar said Tuesday.
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Don't turn complex Indo-China ties into disputes: Jaishankar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Singapore, July 11 (ANI): Describing ties between India and China as multifaceted and complex, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar on Tuesday said that both sides should not allow their differences to become disputes, and cautioned that the debate over the rise of these two powers should not be
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Strategic partnership in agriculture with Israel aimed at doubling farmer
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Jerusalem [Israel], July 5 (ANI): The strategic partnership in water and agriculture with Israel is aimed at the Indian Government's goal of doubling farmer incomes by 2022, said Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Wednesday.
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U.S. terming Salahuddin a global terrorist is a "big outcome" of
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): After the United States declared Syed Salahuddin, the chief of Kashmiri militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, as a "global terrorist", former foreign secretary Salman Haider on Tuesday termed it as the "big outcome" of Prime Minister Narendr
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