New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron are set to meet in Mumbai on Tuesday to assess the progress achieved under the India-France strategic partnership and exchange views on key regional and global developments.Prime Minister Modi will travel to Mumbai for the meeting with the visiting French President, who will be on an official trip to India from February 17 to 19. President Macron’s visit comes at the invitation of PM Modi to take part in t…
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United Nations, Feb 17 (IANS) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres heads to New Delhi to participate in the India AI Impact Summit 2026, where he will press for making artificial intelligence more inclusive and for ensuring the world understands its risks, his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday. Guterres is scheduled to speak at the opening session, where several world leaders and 35,000 people from over 100 countries have signed up to participate.Twenty prime ministers or preside…
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Nvidia Corp on Saturday confirmed that its Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang will not attend the India AI Impact Summit scheduled to begin next week in the national capital. Huang was earlier expected to speak to the media on February 17, but his visit has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, the company said.”Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jensen Huang is unable to travel to India at this time,” it said.”NVIDIA remains deeply committed to the AI Impact S…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Top world leaders – including French President Emmanuel Macron, Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis – are scheduled to attend the India–AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi from February 16–20, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Friday. The summit is anchored in three ‘Sutras’ – ‘People, Planet and Progress’ which define India’s approach to cooperation on AI, the MEA stated.It will bring together global…
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be on a State Visit to India at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from February 18-22, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Thursday. During his visit, President Lula will also attend the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi scheduled to be held on February 19-20. While addressing a weekly media briefing in New Delhi, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also stated that the Brazilian President will be h…
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) South Africa’s High Commissioner to India Prof. Anil Sooklal said on Wednesday that the proposed SACU (Southern African Customs Union)–India Free Trade Agreement would significantly boost trade and investment flows between the two regions. In an exclusive interview with IANS, the High Commissioner said that this would be the first free trade agreement between India and a regional bloc in Africa. The SACU consists of five member countries – Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho…
Sao Paulo, Feb 8 (IANS) Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lashed out at the US administration’s intervention in the internal affairs of Cuba and Venezuela.”Our country stands in solidarity with the Cuban people, victims of a massacre fueled by US speculation. And we, as a party, must find ways to help them,” he said on Saturday during the closing ceremony of the 46th anniversary of the Workers’ Party in Salvador, Bahia state, Xinhua news agency reported.The president also stressed th…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s upcoming visit to India is expected to significantly strengthen bilateral ties amid a rapidly changing global order, Brazilian Ambassador to India Kenneth H. da Nobrega has said, underlining growing coordination between the two countries on trade, technology and geopolitics.In an exclusive interview with IANS, Ambassador da Nobrega noted that President Lula’s visit comes less than a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s t…
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has confirmed that he will make an official visit to India in February, after which he will travel to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump.Lula said in a post on X that he spoke to President Trump by telephone and the two leaders agreed on a meeting in Washington after his visits to India and South Korea in February, with dates to be finalised soon.Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a telephone …
Washington, Jan 27 (IANS) Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told US President Donald Trump that expanding the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council is necessary and that the proposed Peace Council should be limited to the Gaza issue, according to a readout of their phone call issued by the office of the Brazilian President.The two leaders also agreed that Lula would visit Washington after completing his trips to India and South Korea in February. A date for the …