Tag: MEA

Indian defense ministry team in US

by Saurabh Joshi • September 23, 2014

The team is in the US to discuss the Defense Trade and Technology Initiative (DTTI) and terms for the new Defense Framework Agreement in a trip timed just before the Modi visit.

by Archis Mohan • October 19, 2013

The agreement to enable Canada sell its uranium to India came into force in end-September after Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid met Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver. Both New Delhi and Ottawa are keen to begin supplies at the earliest.

by Archis Mohan • September 4, 2013

China and Bhutan will be conducting a “joint technical field survey” in September in a move to settle their boundary disputes, which could shrink the buffer zone between the Siliguri corridor and the India-China border in Chumbi valley.

by Archis Mohan • August 8, 2013

After Defense Minister AK Antony diverged from the Indian Army’s statement on the killings on Tuesday, the Ministry of External Affairs also now seems to have mixed up priorities between domestic politics and international pressure.

by Archis Mohan • July 2, 2013

Although Pakistan’s Sartaj Aziz attempted to defend the visa denial on the basis of technicalities, he was unable to explain the hasty visa denials to reporters Anita Joshua and Rezaul Hasan Laskar or the delay in processing visas of other Indian journalists.

by Archis Mohan • June 23, 2013

South Block is upset over events in Qatar where the Taliban betrayed the presumption of having secured international recognition, and has reserved for Kerry the frostiest reception accorded to a visiting US Secretary of State in recent times.

by Archis Mohan • June 19, 2013

Foreign Affairs Editor, Archis Mohan, narrates how the battle for the position of India’s foreign secretary is to be decided by the government’s discomfort with the perceived proximity of S. Jaishankar to the United States, leaving the field open for Sujatha Singh.

by Saurabh Joshi • March 4, 2013

This is the central plan segment of the MEA’s total expenditure, which is budgeted to be INR 11719 crore after last weeks budget announcement. Bhutan remains far ahead of Afghanistan as India’s largest beneficiary of foreign aid.

by Shruti Pushkarna • February 15, 2013

Shruti Pushkarna puts together a graphic representation of the process of selection of the AgustaWestland AW101 helicopter by the Indian Air Force (IAF), on the basis of the White Paper issued by the defense ministry on Thursday.

by Saurabh Joshi • February 6, 2011

The Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reports that two Chinese officials and one media rep have now been invited to the air show.

by Saurabh Joshi • January 16, 2010

The Singapore-based arms firm, which was earlier reported to have been blacklisted has questioned such a description of itself and has offered its books up scrutiny by Indian agencies.