As map row simmers, India & Nepal foreign ministers to meet today to improve relationship
Nepal’s Foreign Minister arrived in New Delhi Thursday in what is the first high-level official visit from the country after India rejected its controversial new political map.
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New Delhi: Keeping aside the map row that kept bilateral ties between India and Nepal on tenterhooks last year, both sides now seem to be moving on a steady path of progress with New Delhi and Kathmandu holding the 6th Joint Commission meeting Friday.
This is the highest level dialogue mechanism between both the countries that takes place at the level of foreign ministers.
India Claims China Is Supporting Insurgents on Its Border With Burma
NEW DELHI Indian officials are accusing China of supporting insurgents who have been active in recent months in its northeast region.
The insurgents are being provided with weapons by Chinese proxies inside Burma (also known as Myanmar), according to Indian media, and are helping China open a new battlefront on India’s northeastern border, at a time when India–China relations are already tense because of a conflict in Ladakh in north-western India.
“There are telltale signs, which indicate that the Chinese have been supporting the internal insurgent movement in the northeast, in the sense that some of the armed groups that are operating in the northeast do have weapons that clearly have Chinese marks on them,” N.C. Bipindra, editor of strategic affairs magazine Defence.Capital and the chairman of Delhi-based think tank Law and Society Alliance, told The Epoch Times.
WTO meet today to take up India, South Africaâs proposal to waive IP rights for Covid drugs
India and South Africa had jointly submitted the proposal on 2 October seeking ease of intellectual property rights, patents and other provisions for Covid-related drugs.
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New Delhi: The General Council of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is set to take up a proposal floated by India and South Africa in October to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights (IPR) to make Covid-19 vaccines, medicines and medical devices accessible to poorer countries.
The Geneva-based WTO General Council, the highest decision-making body for setting global trading rules, is scheduled to take up the proposal Thursday.