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  • Israeli FM meets PM Modi, discusses strengthening of strategic relations

    Israeli FM meets PM Modi, discusses strengthening of strategic relations

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    New Delhi: Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Tuesday met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed the strengthening of strategic relations between India and Israel.

    With PM Modi, the Israeli Foreign Minister discussed expanding the Abraham Accords and also promoting a free trade agreement.

    Following his meeting with the PM, Cohen tweeted. “India is a world power, the fifth largest economy and the most populous country in the world. I spoke with PM Modi about strengthening the strategic relations between the countries, expanding the Abraham Accords, and promoting a free trade agreement that will boost Israel’s economy.”

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    His tweet added, “I thanked him for his warm attitude towards the State of Israel and the Jewish community in India, and we agreed to continue to strengthen the excellent ties between Israel and India.”

    Israeli Foreign Minister Cohen is on a three-day visit to India, however, he had to cut short his visit due to the security situation in Israel following Operation Shield and Arrow.

    Israel Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has decided to cut short his India visit due to a security update amid action by the Israel Army against members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.

    Cohen, who arrived in India on Tuesday on a three-day official visit, will now return to Israel after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    “I landed a short time ago in New Delhi, the capital of India, and immediately upon landing I received a security update. In light of the events in Israel, I decided to cut short the diplomatic visit to India and return to Israel after my meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that will take place today,” the Israeli Foreign Minister said in a tweet on Tuesday.

    Three senior members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement were killed by the Israeli army in an early Tuesday morning bombing in which explosions ripped through Gaza under ‘Operation Shield and Arrow’, The Times of Israel reported.

    The Israeli army began hitting targets in the Strip just after 2 am in what appeared to be a coordinated surprise attack on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement’s senior leaders.

    Prior to the operation, Israeli residents of areas within 40 kilometres (25 miles) of Gaza were instructed to enter or stay near bomb shelters amid fears of retaliatory attacks, as raids continued to thunder across the Strip.

    During his day-long visit, Cohen also met his Indian Counterpart S Jaishankar, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.

    In India, Cohen also led an economic delegation consisting of 36 Israeli businesspersons mainly from the fields of water management and agriculture.

    He also tweeted, “Strengthening the economic ties with one of the biggest powers in the world For my visit to India, I arrived at the head of an economic delegation of dozens of businessmen and company representatives. The trade potential between Israel and India is enormous, and today we have taken significant steps that will expand cooperation on the way to a free trade agreement, and contribute to the economies of both countries.”

    Both countries noted the progress in I2U2 and held wide-ranging discussions on cooperation in security, economy, technology, innovation, connectivity and health.

    Foreign Minister Cohen also opened the CII India-Israel Business Forum. Three MoUs were signed during the event, marking a new era of cooperation and partnership between the business communities of both nations.

    During the visit, there was a signing of the framework of the agreement between Israel and India on the facilitation of the temporary employment of Indian workers in specific labour market sectors (caregivers and construction workers) in the State of Israel.

    Both countries also signed a letter of intent to establish two Centers of Water Technology in India.

    A project called World on Wheels (WoW Bus) was launched by the Embassy of Israel in India in the presence of Foreign Minister Cohen. The aim of this initiative is to facilitate digital literacy, personality development, and entrepreneurship training in rural parts of India. This is one of the many projects undertaken by the embassy with local partners in India in the field of education.

    (Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)



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  • India, South Korea aim to consolidate special strategic partnership

    India, South Korea aim to consolidate special strategic partnership

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    New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday held wide-ranging talks with his South Korean counterpart Park Jin to take forward the special strategic partnership between the two countries, especially in areas of trade and defence.

    The two foreign ministers also deliberated on the Ukraine conflict and the overall situation in the Indo-Pacific, a region that has witnessed growing Chinese military assertiveness.

    Park is on a two-day visit to India.

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    On the bilateral side, the Jaishankar-Park talks covered cooperation in areas of trade and investments, defense, science and technology, energy, space, semiconductors, emerging technologies and cultural exchanges.

    “I’m really very glad to have the opportunity to take forward our special strategic partnership. This is also the 50th anniversary of the establishment of our diplomatic relations,” Jaishankar said in his opening remarks at the meeting.

    “And you come at a very good time, because our trade is very good, our political relations are very cooperative,” he said.

    In his opening remarks, Park referred to the commonalities between the two sides and their commitment to the Indo-Pacific. “We are both exemplary democracies, vibrant economies and cultural powers and we are both committed to contributing to a free, open, peaceful and prosperous Indo-Pacific region,” he said. “In this way, South Korea and India are natural partners and I have a strong belief that the special strategic partnership between our two countries is the strongest partnership in the Indo-Pacific region,” the South Korean foreign minister said.

    Park also spoke about India’s “increasingly pivotal role” in the international stage and that the country is is set to further impact the world as the president of the G20.

    “India has also demonstrated to the world its cultural prowess with the recent Oscar win, and I must say the ‘Naatu Naatu’ song and dance has captivated the world,” he added. In a Twitter post, Jaishankar described the talks as “warm and wide-ranging”.

    “Noted steady progress in our ties. Discussed political contacts, trade & investments, defense, S&T, energy, space, semiconductors, emerging technologies and cultural exchanges,” he said.

    “Also shared perspectives of our neighborhoods, our visions and policies in the Indo-Pacific and the Ukraine conflict. Agreed to cooperate closely on global and multilateral issues,” he said.

    Before meeting Jaishankar, Park called on Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.

    On Saturday morning, Park will leave for Chennai.

    “I know tomorrow you’re visiting the Hyundai plant in Chennai. So that itself, Hyundai in many ways is a symbol of the relationship that we have,” Jaishankar said in his opening remarks.

    “We have also expanded our relationship today to cover the economic development cooperation fund; we are doing projects under that,” he said

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Russia vows to build on privileged strategic partnership with India

    Russia vows to build on privileged strategic partnership with India

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    New Delhi: Russia on Friday described India and China as “friendly sovereign global centres of power” and vowed to give particular importance to comprehensive deepening of ties and enhancement of coordination with them.

    Unveiling its new concept of foreign policy, approved by President Vladimir Putin, Moscow also asserted that its attitude towards other countries and multilateral bodies is contingent on the constructive, neutral or unfriendly character of their policies with respect to it.

    Russia also said it places special emphasis on increasing the volume of bilateral trade with India, strengthening investment and technological ties, and ensuring resistance to destructive actions of “unfriendly states and their alliances”.

    In the document, Russia underlined that it will build on a privileged strategic partnership with India with a view to enhance and expand cooperation in all areas on a mutually beneficial basis.

    “A comprehensive deepening of ties and enhancement of coordination with friendly sovereign global centres of power and development, which are located on the Eurasian continent and committed to approaches which coincide in principle with the Russian approaches to a future world order and solutions for key problems of the world politics, is particularly important for achieving strategic goals and major objectives of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation,” the policy statement said in its sub-section on China and India.

    Russia aims at further strengthening the comprehensive partnership and the strategic cooperation with China and focuses on the development of a mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas as well as enhancement of coordination in the international arena to ensure security, stability and sustainable development at the global and regional levels, both in Eurasia and in other parts of the world, said the policy document titled ‘The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation’.

    It said it seeks to transform Eurasia into a continental common space of peace, stability, mutual trust, development and prosperity.

    Achieving this goal implies comprehensive strengthening of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) potential and role in ensuring security in Eurasia and promoting its sustainable development by enhancing the organisation’s activities in the light of current geopolitical realities, the document said.

    The goal also implies establishment of the broad Greater Eurasian Partnership integration contour by combining the potential of all the states, regional organisations and Eurasian associations, based on the EAEU, the SCO and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as the conjunction of the Eurasian Economic Union development plans and the Chinese initiative “One Belt One Road”.

    Russia also called for strengthening the economic and transport inter-connectivity in Eurasia, including through modernisation.

    It also sought a comprehensive settlement in Afghanistan, assistance in building it as a sovereign, peaceful and neutral state with stable economy and political system which meets the interests of all the ethnic groups living there and opens up prospects for integrating Afghanistan into the Eurasian space for cooperation.

    In the document, Moscow also sought enhancing the capacity and international role of the interstate association of BRICS, the SCO, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the RIC (Russia, India, China) and other interstate associations and international organisations.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • BRO opens 427 km strategic Leh-Manali highway in 138 days

    BRO opens 427 km strategic Leh-Manali highway in 138 days

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    Jammu-Srinagar highway closed again

    New Delhi: The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) opened the strategically important Leh-Manali highway (NH 3) on Saturday in a record time of 138 days.

    The Leh-Manali highway generally remains closed from November end with the onset of winter till it is opened in March.

    Officials said that last year, it took 144 days for the BRO to open the highway for traffic movement. It is a 427 km long strategic highway connecting Ladakh with the rest of India through Manali, having strategic importance for the movement of the armed forces and their supplies to the forward areas in Ladakh, as well as connecting the people of Ladakh with the rest of the country.

    The highway is an alternate route to the 422 km long Srinagar-Kargil-Leh highway (NH-1D), which was opened by the BRO on March 16. BRO also opened the mighty Shinkula Pass located at 16,580 feet on Nimmu-Padum-Darch road in a record time of 55 days on March 23.

    The entire 427 km Leh-Manali highway has been cleared of snow by the BRO frontline Project Himank in Ladakh and Project Deepak in Himachal Pradesh. These challenging operations commenced from two extremities of the road by two different teams comprising skilled manpower and state-of-the-art machines. As the two snow clearance teams converge at a common point in Sarchu, Himachal Pradesh, a ‘Golden Handshake’ ceremony is organised there to declare the highway open.

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  • Strategic Sgr-Leh highway thrown open for traffic in record 68 days

    Strategic Sgr-Leh highway thrown open for traffic in record 68 days

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    Zojila pass, Mar 16: The strategic 434 km long Srinagar-Leh highway was thrown open by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in a record 68 days, officials said Thursday.

    Talking to reporters after throwing the highway open for traffic officially, Director General Border Roads Organisation (BRO) Lt General Rajeev Chaudhary, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), it is always a toughest challenge to throw open Zojila pass. “It was due to the hardwork of BRO officials and men that we were able to throw the pass open in a record number of 68 days. For the past three years, we have been breaking our own records,” he said, adding that first the road was thrown open in 110 days, then in 78 days and now in just 68 days.

    “Our efforts will be make the road through in just 60 days (two months),” he said. “BRO officials and men are fully acclimatized and familiar with the area. No equipment was damaged during the road opening process.”

    He said the locals who work with the BRO are being provided with adequate wages, shelter and food besides warm clothes. “Some people are with us since 25 years. We are like a family,” the DG BRO said.

    He said that early opening of this road helps save RS 7 Crore a day for the government. “This road helps to send defence equipment including guns, bullets and tanks besides troops to Ladakh. Similarly, the early road opening helps give an economic push to the Ladakh region who remain cut-off from the rest of the world for six months,” the DG said, adding that “people of Ladakh can come to Srinagar through this road and carry out their economic activities—(KNO)

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    ( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

  • A panel of experts analyzes the strategic agenda of the Community

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    E.F.Q. MURCIA.

    Set up a strategic agenda that contributes to reaching the cruising speed that the Region of Murcia needs to guarantee a prosperous and solid development. This is the main objective of the ‘En Futuro’ cycle, which will hold its second day tomorrow, February 28, with a panel of experts from different sectors of activity. A cycle that has set itself the purpose of unifying positions and shedding light on the challenges and trends that mark the short, medium and long-term future of the Community in different areas.

    Moderated by the head of the Local Area of ​​LA VERDAD, Manuel Buitrago, the meeting will take place in the Graduate Hall of the Faculty of Law, on the La Merced Campus of the University of Murcia, starting at 9:30 am. The president of the regional government, Fernando López Miras, will be in charge of the institutional opening of the act, which will include two round tables. The first, of a markedly institutional character, will have as protagonists Marcos Ortuño, Minister of the Presidency, Tourism, Culture, Youth, Sports and Spokesperson; Miguel López Abad, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Murcia; José María Albarracín, president of Croem, and Ramón Madrid, dean of the College of Economists of the Region.

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    • That.
      ‘In Future Region of Murcia’.

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      LA VERDAD, sponsored by the Region of Murcia, CaixaBank, Universae, Grupo Orenes, Hozono Global, Hidrogea, University of Murcia and the Murcia Chamber of Commerce.

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      Tuesday, February 28, at 9:30 a.m., at the UMU Law School.

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    The business table, for its part, will be made up of Joaquín Hernández, president of the Círculo de Economía de la Región de Murcia; Pilar Berral, notary and member of the Circle of Economy of the Region of Murcia; Carmen Ayala, director of AC Hotel and president of the Tourism Board of the Region of Murcia; Francisco Espín Sánchez, president of the Business Association for Renewable Energies and Energy Savings (Aremur), and Pedro García, director of Institutional Relations, Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility of Grupo Orenes.

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    ‘En Futuro: Región de Murcia’ is organized by LA VERDAD and is sponsored by the Region of Murcia, CaixaBank, Universae, Grupo Orenes, Hozono Global, Hidrogea, University of Murcia and the Chamber of Commerce of Murcia.

    looks to the past

    The ‘En Futuro’ cycle is complemented by ‘Expo 120 years’, an exhibition that rescues a selection of the most outstanding front pages of LA VERDAD from the year the newspaper was founded to the present day. The exhibition will open tomorrow at the Auditorium of the University of Murcia, when the event ‘En Futuro: Región de Murcia’ ends, and can be visited until March 28. It consists of a series of 40 covers, selected for the relevance of the news. Among them, the first cover of LA VERDAD stands out, dating from September 25, 1903; the approval of the Tajo-Segura Transfer, on September 14, 1968; the massive demonstration against the 11-M attacks, on March 13, 2004, and Carlos Alcaraz’s first Grand Slam at the US Open, on September 12, 2022. This initiative is organized by LA VERDAD, sponsored by the Region of Murcia, Murcia City Council, CaixaBank, Universae, Hozono Global, Hidrogea, Murcia Chamber of Commerce and University of Murcia.

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    ( With inputs from : pledgetimes.com )