What’s in the news? India, France and the UAE have agreed to establish a formal trilateral cooperation initiative with the aim of expanding cooperation in various fields of mutual interest. The three sides agreed that the trilateral initiative will serve …
What is the Indus Water Treaty (IWT)? Signed in the year 1960 by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the then President of Pakistan, Ayub Khan, the Indus Water Treaty is an agreement that was made to chalk out the …
About APPU Asian Pacific Postal Union (APPU) is an intergovernmental organization of 32-member countries of the Asian-Pacific region. APPU is the only Restricted Union of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in the region, which is a specialized agency of the …
What’s in the news? After an ‘explosion’ of asylum seekers, Austria and India have signed a comprehensive migration and mobility partnership agreement that will facilitate the return of illegal migrants back to their country. The agreement was initialled by the …
About Chabahar port Chabahar port, which is being jointly developed by India, Iran and Afghanistan, is located in south Iran on the Gulf of Oman. Afghanistan is connected to the chabahar port through its land border with Iran, and India …
Context: At the concluding session of the G-20 summit at Bali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that reforming the WTO is crucial for strengthening trust in the multilateral trading system. Need for reforming WTO Rules-based, non-discriminatory, free, fair, open, inclusive, …
What’s in the news? The 17th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organisation (APRM of ILO) set ten-point priorities of national action for the member countries to deal with the issue of dwindling wages of workers, …
What’s in the news? India and Germany have signed an agreement on a Comprehensive Migration and Mobility Partnership. The agreement will help the citizens of both the nations to study, do research and work in each other’s country. The India-Germany …
About New START Treaty The New START Treaty, which came into force in 2011, caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy, and the deployment of land- and submarine-based missiles and bombers to …