The admission portal for the programme is being executed by IIT Delhi for offering PhD fellowships to ASEAN students in all IITs in India. read more

The PM’s trip to Bhutan is important because the bilateral relationship is at acrossroads. Three emerging policies of India remain critically juxtaposed in these bilateral exchanges. read more

Footage showed an explosion in a shopping mall minutes from the summit venue in the early hours of Friday morning, after it was apparently planted by a man dressed in a student’s uniform about 12 hours earlier. read more

Small devices -- believed to be so-called “ping pong bombs” around the size of a table tennis ball -- exploded at several locations across the city, none close to the summit venue. read more

Gongsakdi suggested recent negotiations in China and a RCEP trade ministers meeting in Beijing should focus on give and take to ensure the free trade pact is concluded by the end of 2019. read more

India had earlier informed Asean that Jaishankar would be unable to attend the meetings because of commitments in Parliament but a last minute change paved the way for his presence at the crucial discussions, people familiar with developments said on... read more

The ministry has on Thursday readied a plan under which 1,000 students from Asean countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam etc would be given fellowships to undertake research in the Indian Institutes of Technology. read more

Asean members – Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – are keen on finalising RCEP in time for a summit in November. read more

During their meeting, the two leaders expressed mutual desire to synergise India’s Act East Policy with South Korea’s New Southern Policy. read more

But individual efforts alone can’t fully stop the 8 million tonnes of plastic that make their way to the ocean each year, and with four of the five worst ocean polluters in Southeast Asia, the region’s governments must take action, he says. read more

Under the Trump administration, a free and open Indo-Pacific has emerged as an important aspect of the relationship between the US and Japan and other like-minded nations in the region. read more

It has also closed reservations for its Mumbai-London, Mumbai-Amsterdam-Mumbai and Bangalore-Amsterdam flights, up to April 18, as per the information. read more

The company has informed the country’s aviation regulator that it has stopped taking forward bookings for its flights to SAARC and ASEAN destinations including Colombo, Kathmandu, Singapore, and Hong Kong till further notice. read more

The negotiations on RCEP were last year extended into 2019 as the parties – the 10 ASEAN states and their six partners, India, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand – were unable to reach an agreement on key issues. read more

The plans included in the International Education Strategy, however, do not go so far as to accept the sector’s demand to revive the two-year post-study work visa that was popular with self-financing Indian students, but was closed in 2012. read more