The Centre spent Rs 1.79 crore in the last two months over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign visits to seven nations between May and July, which included the high profile visits to the US and France.
Under 'Operation Kaveri', 328 more Indians landed at the New Delhi International Airport from strife-torn Sudan on Tuesday night. Nearly 3,000 stranded Indians have reached India till now.
Terrorism and transnational crime remain one of the foremost challenges to regional peace and prosperity: Sanjay Verma, Secretary, West, in the Ministry of External Affairs.
Arindam Bagchi further said that an announcement will be made if there is a change in the plan regarding scheduled G20 meetings. Notably, India assumed the G20 presidency on December
On September 23, the foreign ministers of Australia, India and Japan and the Secretary of State of the United States held a meeting in New York.
"The government's priority is to safely evacuate the remaining Indians left there and to also ensure the security of Hindus and Sikhs there as well," the External Affairs Ministry (MEA) reiterated on Tuesday.
Reports said the airstrip at Kabul airport is, however, controlled by the US forces who are supervising the evacuation of the diplomatic staff of some countries.
The decision by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to skip a meeting of global foreign ministers called by his Canadian counterpart to craft a unified response to the coronavirus epidemic a month after he had seemed to heartily welcome the initiative, was clearly provoked by remarks of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that India deems ill-informed and unwarranted.
Jai Ram Thakur urges people and netizens to be part of 'mask up campaign'
Srivastava said the senior military commanders, at their meeting on 30 June, discussed issues related to disengagement at the face-off sites along the LAC and de-escalation from the border areas.
