Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Important International news of year 2017 and India's role

Current Hindi News Lucknow
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Jordanian counterpart Ayman Al Safadi held a bilateral meeting in New Delhi  where they discussed deepening bilateral ties across multiple sectors. Mr Safadi discussed steps to set up a robust agenda for deepening and diversifying areas of cooperation in the fields of trade and investment, defence and security and people-to-people contact. In other news from Yemen that we saw in the latest updates
India provided medical assistance worth about $1 million to Yemen in response to a request from the Yemeni government. As part of its commitment to provide humanitarian assistance to Yemen, being a member of Friends of Yemen Group India helped in providing medical assistance to Yemen.
Our PM Narendra Modi will be the first PM in twenty years who will be attending the World Economic Forum (WEF). The meeting will be held in Davos town of Switzerland. The five-day Davos Annual Meeting of Geneva-based WEF will start in January 2018.  During this meeting Indian CEOs will also be present at the meeting including Mukesh Ambani, Chanda Kochhar and Uday Kotak. Lucknow city news headlines
The 11th edition of Naseem-Al-Bahr (Sea Breeze) 2017 Naval exercise between India and Oman was held at Said Bin Sultan Naval Base, Wudam in Oman. The year marks 24 years of Indian Navy-Royal Navy of Oman bilateral exercises that has been a biennial feature since 1993.

the two countries India and Myanmar signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at developing Myanmar’s Rakhine state.Government of India proposes to take up, among others, a project to build prefabricated housing in Rakhine State so as to meet the immediate needs of returning people.
Iraq overtook Saudi Arabia for the first time to become India’s top crude oil supplier in the current fiscal, according to the Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Saudi Arabia traditionally has been India’s top oil source but in the April-October period of 2017-18, Iran was India’s second biggest supplier of crude oil after Saudi Arabia till 2010-11 but western sanctions over its suspected nuclear programme relegated it to the 7th spot in the subsequent years. Iran fell to third and Venezuela is in fourth followed by Nigeria.The eight edition of India, Maldives bilateral military exercise EKUVERIN 2017 was held in India in Belagavi, Karnataka. The aim of the exercise was to conduct military training between armies of both countries with emphasis on counter insurgency, counter terrorism operations (CICT Ops). Raebareli news in Hindi
Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) decided to admit India as its new member.  India’s entry into the export control regime would enhance its credentials in the field of non-proliferation despite not being a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The decision was taken at the two-day plenary meeting of the grouping in Vienna.  The grouping statement that the Wassenaar Arrangement participating states reviewed the progress of a number of current membership applications and agreed at the plenary meeting to admit India.  India will become the Arrangement’s 42nd participating state as soon as the necessary procedural arrangements for joining the WA are completed. Gorakhpur news in Hindi

1 comment: