Prime Minister Narendra Modi is embarking on a two-day journey to Moscow on Monday for summit-level talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
PM Modi will likely be in Moscow from July 8 to 9 on the invitation of President Putin for the twenty second India-Russia Annual Summit. It will likely be Modi’s first go to to Russia since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
The 2 leaders will overview the “total vary of multifaceted relations between the 2 nations and alternate views on modern regional and world problems with mutual curiosity,” the Ministry of Exterior Affairs stated in New Delhi on Thursday whereas asserting the high-level go to.
This will likely be PM Modi’s first go to to Russia in practically 5 years. His final go to to Russia was in 2019 when he attended an financial conclave within the Far East metropolis of Vladivostok.
The final in-person bilateral assembly between Modi and Putin occurred in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in September 2022. That was when Modi informed Putin that “this isn’t the period of battle” — a line used within the formulation on the G20 summit in Bali in November 2022, and by different western leaders and interlocutors to press on Russia to finish the battle.
In reflection of its robust friendship with Russia, India has not but condemned Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and it has been sustaining that the battle should be resolved by way of diplomacy and dialogue.
Within the two-and-a-half years since their final annual summit in New Delhi in December 2021, Modi and Putin have maintained common contact by way of not less than 10 phone conversations. Modi’s go to to Russia comes simply after his go to to Italy for the outreach session on the G7 leaders’ Summit on June 13-14. Nonetheless, he didn’t go for the peace summit on Ukraine which was held in Switzerland.
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Following his Russia go to, PM Modi will likely be in Austria on July 9-10. This would be the first go to by an Indian PM to Austria in 41 years, after Indira Gandhi in 1983.
Rahul Gandhi in Assam, Manipur
The Chief of Opposition (LoP) within the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, will journey to Assam and Manipur on Monday. This will likely be Gandhi’s first journey to Manipur because the LoP, which comes days after he expressed within the Home his concern in regards to the ethnic battle between the Meitei and the Kuki-Zomi communities within the state.
Senior Congress leaders hope that this go to would ship out a message that “it’s excessive time Prime Minister Narendra Modi also needs to go to the strife-torn state”, as Asad Rehman reported.
After visiting a reduction camp within the Cachar district of Assam, the place these affected by floods are looking for reduction, Gandhi will head to Manipur by way of highway.
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There, he’ll meet violence-affected individuals in reduction camps in three locations – Jiribam, Churachandpur (districts), and Moirang (Bishnupur district). He’s additionally scheduled to fulfill Governor Anusuiya Uikey to debate the disaster.
Gandhi’s go to to Jiribam assumes significance because it remained largely unaffected by the clashes till June this 12 months, when a killing shattered its tenuous year-long peace.
Within the Lok Sabha on July 2, PM Modi’s over two-hour-long reply to the talk on movement of thanks on the President’s handle was disrupted by the Opposition members, who repeatedly raised the slogans of “Justice for Manipur” and “Bharat Jodo”.
HC to listen to Kejriwal petition
The Delhi Excessive Court docket is scheduled to listen to on Monday a plea by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who’s looking for extra conferences together with his legal professionals. The plea is listed for listening to earlier than Justice Neena Bansal Krishna. Kejriwal, who has been in jail for his alleged function within the Delhi excise coverage case, has challenged a trial court docket’s July 1 order rejecting his software for instructions to the jail authorities for granting two extra conferences in every week together with his legal professionals by way of video conferencing. Presently, he’s allowed two conferences together with his legal professionals in every week.
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SC to listen to pleas on NEET
The Supreme Court docket will on Monday hear a batch of pleas associated to NEET-UG 2024, together with these alleging irregularities and malpractices within the Could 5 check and looking for a path to conduct it afresh.
The Centre and the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA), which conducts NEET-UG, not too long ago informed the apex court docket that scrapping the examination can be “counterproductive” and “critically jeopardise” lakhs of sincere candidates within the absence of any proof of large-scale breach of confidentiality.
In keeping with the trigger listing for July 8 uploaded on the apex court docket’s web site, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is scheduled to listen to a complete of 38 petitions associated to the examination.
With PTI inputs
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