R Venkataraman, a veteran member belonging to the Congress Party, who later became the President of the republic from 1987 to 1992, participating in the parliamentary discussion on 21 February 1979, expressed the solidarity of the House with the people of Vietnam.
It was a security dilemma that shaped India’s nuanced stance with regard to Indo-China. Elucidating on the dilemma in the region, Jawaharlal Nehru said, “In order to prevent the other from being the aggressor, you become the aggressor yourself.
The Prime Minister of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh visited India and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 August. Modi iterated that Vietnam is a powerful pillar of India’s Act East policy.
India has proposed to Vietnam cooperation in emerging areas such as cyber security, information security, military medicine and submarine search and rescue.
The two leaders also recognised convergence in their world view and expressed support for a greater voice and role for Global South in international affairs, a joint statement following Vietnam PM's visit stated.
The Vietnamese economy is forecast to grow at 6.3 per cent in 2024 and 6.5 per cent in 2025, said the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office in its latest update.
When the vehicle was trapped by a landslide on a road in Bac Me district, all the people on board got out for help. The minibus was reportedly carrying around 16 people.
In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin made two significant overseas visits, first to North Korea where he signed a landmark security treaty with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and then to Vietnam, one of Asia’s fastest growing economies and one of the most diplomatically active countries in the 21st century.
No doubt, India has not been sitting idle all this while. Besides QUAD, which is a formal strategic ‘partnership’, India has been forging strategic bilateral ‘partnerships’ with littoral democracies that are similarly under threat by an openly aggressive China, such as Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Mauritius, Seychelles, Malaysia etc.
One paper factory worker died and two others were injured in a huge explosion in Vietnam's Bac Ninh province on Tuesday morning, Vietnam News Agency reported.
