The recent appointment of former career diplomat Dr. S. Jaishankar as India’s Foreign Minister – a cabinet rank – is a bold and unprecedented step by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
When India’s “supermom” Sushma Swaraj excused herself from contesting general elections and even a second term as the external affairs minister, finding her replacement became a huge challenge.
The External Affairs Minister’s post, in a country like India that faces constant tension on its
India’s new External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar believes that India’s global stature has grown significantly in the last five years.
As the term of Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar comes to an end on January 28 this year, the focus will be on enumerating the milestones notched by the roller-coaster foreign policy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with this seasoned diplomat on the driving seat.
S Jaishankar has said that our intensive efforts to make passport available to maximum number of Indians have created an environment for the Indian diaspora in terms of their global mobility.
Dr S Jaishankar, the Indian Foreign Secretary, delivered the ST Lee Distinguished Lecture of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore on ‘India, ASEAN and Changing Geopolitics’ yesterday
Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar has said Singapore stood out as the best testimony to the extent of engagement India enjoyed with member states of the regional group.
The Indian leader, who assumed officer for his third straight term as the Prime Minister of the world’s most populous nation earlier in 2024, is visiting Singapore after six years. His last state visit was in 2018.
India and Singapore also signed four MoUs in Semiconductors, Digital Technologies, Skill Development and Healthcare sectors, which the two Prime Ministers oversaw.
The deceased have been identified as Aryan Raghunath Orampati, of Hyderabad, Farooq Shaik, a friend of Aryan, Lokesh Palacharla, another Telugu speaker and Darshini Vasudevan from Tamil Nadu.
