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Montevideo, August 2nd 2025 - 19:41 UTC

Tag: Narendra Modi

  • Saturday, July 5th 2025 - 19:21 UTC

    Milei welcomes Modi at Casa Rosada

    It was the first official visit to Argentina by an Indian PM in 57 years, although Modi had been in Buenos Aires for the G20 Summit in 2018

    Argentine President Javier Milei welcomed India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss trade, investment, energy, critical minerals, defense, aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and other issues.

  • Wednesday, June 4th 2025 - 09:56 UTC

    Peña and Modi discuss bilateral ties between India and Paraguay

    “It is an honor to represent Paraguay on this official visit,” Peña said

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to strengthen bilateral relations. The South American leader highlighted his country's clean energy, fertile land, abundant water, and a hardworking population, emphasizing the potential for cooperation in technology, agriculture, health, education, defense, and science.

  • Saturday, November 11th 2023 - 09:47 UTC

    Lula discusses international agenda with Indian PM Modi

    “Had a good conversation on phone with President @LulaOficial,” Modi wrote on X

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed Friday during a telephone conversation the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and other matters of mutual interest, it was reported.

  • Saturday, September 9th 2023 - 09:58 UTC

    African Union joins G20, Modi announces

    This year's summit is being touted as the grandest diplomatic event in India since the ceremonial cremation of slain Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Saturday on the opening day of the G20 Summit that the African Union (AU) had been granted permanent member status in the group of top world economies. The AU thus becomes the second regional bloc to become a permanent member after the European Union (EU).

  • Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 08:47 UTC

    Modi highlights encounter between oldest, largest democracies

    When you talk of democracy, if there are no human values, and there is no humanity, there are no human rights, then it’s not a democracy,” Modi said in a post-meeting press briefing

    India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday highlighted before a joint meeting of the US Congress in Washington DC that his state visit brought together the oldest and the largest democracies in the world. Modi also underlined Vice President Kamala Harris’ Indian heritage.

  • Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 07:00 UTC

    Draupadi Murmu to become India's next president

    Murmu started her career as a school teacher

    India, the country slated to have the world's largest population by the end of the year, and a member of BRICS, Thursday announced the name of the person to become the next head of state.

  • Monday, April 25th 2022 - 11:57 UTC

    Tepid New Delhi support for Argentina's sponsored Falklands/Malvinas dialogue commission

    The initiative seems to have run into rough weather since members of the ruling party BJP of Prime Minister Narendra Modi declined to attend

    The Commission for Dialogue referred to the Falkland Islands dispute which was launched in India, with the support of outstanding political figures, as was announced by Argentine minister of Foreign Affairs Santiago Cafiero, does not seem to have had the response expected, according to the Indian media in the framework of the annual Raisina Dialogue organized by the Indian government.

  • Friday, April 22nd 2022 - 18:31 UTC

    Johnson and his “special friend” Modi advance bilateral ties between UK, India

    It was Johnson's first trip to India since becoming Prime Minister (Pic AFP)

    India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart Boris Johnson Friday discussed in New Delhi a possible Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries, in addition to other matters concerning defense, trade, climate, and energy.

  • Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 13:30 UTC

    Bolsonaro thanks Indian PM Modi for allowing export of hydroxychloroquine raw materials

    In his address to the nation on Wednesday Bolsonaro said he thanked the Prime Modi and the people of India for the “timely help to the people of Brazil”.

    Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro has thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allowing the export of raw materials to continue production of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug believed effective in the treatment of the novel coronavirus. In his address to the nation on Wednesday, Mr. Bolsonaro said he thanked the Prime Modi and the people of India for “timely help to the people of Brazil”.

  • Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 06:38 UTC

    Trump receives a hero's welcome in Gujarat, India, Prime Minister Modi's home state

    Trump reveled in pomp and pageantry as Prime Minister Narendra Modi went all-out to welcome him in his home state of Gujarat.

    Emerging in a stadium to the appropriate strains of the Village People's “Macho Man” as 100,000 people cheered on, US President Donald Trump looked like he was at a campaign rally in America's Midwest.

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