Krishna Holdings, a subsidiary of UltraTech Nathdwara Cement, will trade its entire 92.5 percent stake in China’s Shandong Binani Rongan Cement for around $129 million. UltraTech Nathdwara Cement is a subsidiary of the UltraTech Cement.
India and the European Union (EU) will hold their 15th bilateral Summit on July 15 via video conference.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will represent India while the EU will be represented by President of the European Council Charles Michel, and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
Summit will review India-EU cooperation covering political & security relations, trade & investment and economic cooperation.
Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad epitomized India in the virtual meeting of the G20 Digital Economy Minister under the hosted by Saudi Arabia.
Defence Ministers’ Dialogue of India and Indonesia was held in New Delhi where they agreed to further improve bilateral defence cooperation mutually.
The Indian delegation was led by the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh while the Indonesian delegation was led by Defence Minister General Prabowo Subianto.
Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman attended the 5th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) through a video conference in New Delhi.
The theme ‘AIIB 2030-Supporting Asia’s Development over the Next Decade’.
BRICS conducted its 6th Environment Ministers’ Meeting through Video Conferencing in which our Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar represented India and elaborated about the efforts made by India in areas relating to sustainable urban management, tackling marine litter, air pollution and the cleaning of rivers.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern announced that the General election of the country is postponed by four weeks to October 17. This decision has been taken due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. As per the country’s law, Elections are to be held before November 21.
A two day, 6th Round Table of ASEAN-India Network of Think Tanks (AINTT) held virtually. It was organized by The Ministry of External Affairs in partnership with the Foreign Ministry of Thailand.
Theme: ‘ASEAN-India: Strengthening Partnership in the Post COVID Era’
The Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on August 27, 2020, attended the virtual meeting of ASEAN-India Business Council Meet. India extends a hand of friendship to ASEAN countries through businesses for driving mutual success.
India and Singapore conducted the fourteenth Defence Policy Dialogue via video conferencing. The conference was Co-chaired by Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar Permanent Secretary (Defence), and his Singaporean counterpart Mr Chan Heng Kee.
The 8th East Asia Summit (Economic Ministers’ Meeting) was held virtually on 28 August 2020 which was attended by the Economic ministers from the 10 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) members and eight other nations.
The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal represented India in the Summit.
Objective: to strengthen the regional supply chains, become resilient during this challenging time of Covid-19 pandemic.
Saudi Arabia will host the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Meeting virtually. India proposed the setting up of voluntary ‘G20 Principles on Coordinated Cross-Border Movement of People’. India will be represented by the External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar.
The 5th BRICS Culture Ministers’ Meeting was held under the chairpersonship of Russian Federation. India was represented by Prahlad Singh Patel in the 5th BRICS Culture Ministers’ Meet.
Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the first edition of the World Solar Technology Summit (WSTS) of the International Solar Alliance (ISA), on 8th September 2020.
It was organised by ISA and FICCI and more than 26000 participants from 149 countries joined the virtual Summit.
The 10th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers Meeting was held via video conference and was attended by the Foreign Ministers of the East Asia Summit (EAS) participating countries. It was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam Pham Bin Minh. The Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan on September 9, 2020, attended the event.
Union External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar is currently attending the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO) in Moscow, Russia.
This is the third Council of Foreign Ministers meeting that India will be attending as a full member of SCO. While the first meeting was in Beijing in April 2018, the second was in Bishkek in May 2019.
On 9th September, the Foreign Secretaries of Australia, India, and France co-chaired a first trilateral dialogue with an aim to synergizing their respective strengths to ensure a secure, peaceful, prosperous, and rules-based Indo-Pacific region.
The 27th ASEAN regional forum held recently and the Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan represented India. He stated that India will co-chair ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) workshops on port security and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.