Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will lead an Indian Parliamentary Delegation (IPD) to the tenth BRICS Parliamentary Forum (PF) to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 11 and 12, 2024.
A day ago (Thursday), four Indian students studying at the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, drowned in the Volkhov river, with a fifth student narrowly escaping and currently receiving medical attention.
In an unfortunate incident, five Indian students drowned in a river, of which one was saved in Russia's St Petersburg. The Indian embassy has assured that the authorities are working to send the bodies to the relatives as soon as possible.
The programme includes more than 150 thematic sessions with over 1,000 speakers. The event will focus on developing business relations and expanding contacts with trade partners from the CIS countries, the Arab world, India, China, EAEU-ASEAN and Latin America.
On the sidelines of the XII International Meeting of High Ranking Officials Responsible for Security Matters in St Petersburg, NSA Doval had a bilateral meeting with Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held a bilateral meeting Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev and both sides reviewed progress in bilateral cooperation and discussed important issues of mutual interest.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who is on a visit to Russia, shared his delight as he visited the school named after Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in St. Petersburg
Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on Thursday batted for shaping international relations with Indian characteristics, stressing that it is his "major preoccupation" to devote more time to looking at India's reservoir of culture and knowledge.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a meeting with leading representatives of the Russian strategic community on Monday and discussed connectivity, multilateralism, big power competition and regional conflicts. They spoke about the importance of rebalancing and the emergence of multi