“We are coming from an important year, 2023, for India and Italy, with the signing of the Cooperation Agreement between the two States governed by principles of equality, reciprocity, interest and mutual respect” thus, yesterday afternoon, the Undersecretary of State for Defense Matteo Perego of Cremnago in his greeting address to the inter-force delegation of the College of [...]
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At the end of the G20 in New Delhi, a final joint declaration was released which dealt with various topics of common interest such as climate, energy, food security, but also female empowerment, health, artificial intelligence and digitalisation and above all the conflict in Ukraine and the issue migratory
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On August 28, the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources published the 2023 edition of the "National Charter of China", an official document that has become a point of reference for "national sovereignty".
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India's space agency said Saturday it had shut down its lunar rover after completing two weeks of experiments. The images that were sent to Earth are spectacular. The Pragyan rover of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was "set to sleep mode" but with the batteries charged and the receiver turned on, the Organization declared [...]
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The size of the Indian telecom market has grown exponentially in recent years. The country's economic survey last year revealed that wireless data usage rose from an average of 1,24GB per person per month in 2018 to over 14GB in 2022.
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India lands on the lunar South Pole, water ice exploration begins
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The expansion of the BRICS bloc, under discussion at this week's summit in Johannesburg, has attracted a diverse group of potential candidates – from Iran to Argentina – intent on starting a new inclusive process to compete with the western block. There are many issues that emerging countries complain about: According to officials of the [...]
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Italian government action highlighted in the Final Report At the end of the G20 Education Ministers' Meeting, held yesterday in Pune, UNESCO, OECD and UNICEF, together with the Indian Presidency, presented the final report of the works. Among the best practices, the actions promoted by Italy have been highlighted [...]
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The Axios portal has revealed the American project to hinder the Chinese Silk Road. On the table a railway and maritime network capable of uniting the Middle and Far East, Saudi Arabia and India and why not, in the future also Israel. The US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan would have talked about it during the [...]
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Moscow oil traffic off the Indian Ocean, away from trade routes. Repubblica resumes an investigation by the WSJ where it is told how Moscow circumvents the sanctions with the complicity of the large global oil companies. Oil companies get 49 percent of their crude oil needs from firms in Moscow. To avoid […]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The war in Ukraine is taking a direction that does not help Vladimir Putin both internally and abroad. The defeat of the Russian forces in the Kharkiv region does not portend a rapid end to the conflict. The Russian army was unable to overwhelm the Ukrainian one with the help of Western intelligence and resources [...]
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The US, Japan, India and Australia - Quad - have started a maritime surveillance program in the Pacific to control Beijing. Biden spoke with the premier, the Japanese Kishida, the Indian Modi, and the Australian of Italian origin, Albanian, about all the world disputes, including Ukraine, specifying that the latter is more than a question [...]
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The Biden Administration on April 18 announced a unilateral moratorium on anti-satellite missile tests, inviting other nations operating in space to follow the initiative. Vice President Kamala Harris announced a ban on conducting such tests for the United States, after tests conducted in recent years by Russia, China and India which have [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Turkey and Qatar today have become the referents of the Western world in Afghanistan, their diplomatic and intelligence network is growing day by day within the country. Main objective: to counter, as far as possible, competition from China and Russia, the only countries, together with Pakistan, which have kept open the [...]
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The New York Times has published satellite images, taken in the Xinjiang region, which show the construction of at least 110 silos intended to house intercontinental missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. It is the second site identified in recent weeks. The first journalistic scoop on the subject was made by the Washington Post. The images were taken by [...]
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Surprise visit yesterday to Kabul by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the day after Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September. An inevitable decision for the American president, but probably made not without some stomach ache within his administration. According to some sources close to the House [...]
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India to counter the spread of Covid-19 has made it mandatory to use an app for tracking all public and private employees. The central government's announcement came at a time when it was thought to loosen the restrictive measures. It was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who declared this yesterday while raising awareness among the population [...]
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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accused India of planning military action in the disputed region of Kashmir in a speech delivered on the occasion of the celebration of "Independence Day". India revoked the special status of its portion of Himalayan Kashmir, known as Jammu and Kashmir, and on 5 August it intervened to quell the [...]
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The Indian lunar mission is called "Chandrayaan-2" will make India the fourth nation capable of placing its own equipment on the moon. The mission started from the Sriharikota Space Center in the south-east of the country. The purpose of the expedition is to place a lander and a mobile robot near the satellite's south pole, as well as to position [...]
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The Islamic State has announced the establishment of a new overseas province in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The announcement was made over the weekend by Amaq, the Islamic State news agency. According to the press release, the Islamic State (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has appointed the new province [...]
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According to the former president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, the government of Pakistan and the Indian government have hired terrorist groups to attack India. Musharraf, 75, took power in Pakistan in 1999 through a coup d'état supported by the country's military leadership. The four-star army general ruled as the tenth president of the [...]
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The information portal Jurno reports an interesting article on the now long-standing Agusta-Westland affair in India. We are talking about the large sum, over 50 million euros, paid in 2010 by AgustaWestland to win a contract of 556 million for the sale of 12 helicopters in VIP configuration, intended for the transport of members of the Delhi government. [...]
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The Indian CBI (Central Boureau of Investigation) reported that AgustaWestland had given Christian Michel 42,27 million euros to pay Indian politicians and officials for the VVIP helicopter order, the Indian online newspaper Timesnownews.com reports. Christian Michel, the alleged intermediary in the order, was extradited from Dubai to India after [...]
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A truly incredible story that comes from distant India. His mother saw him kidnapped before her eyes without being able to do anything. The newborn was later found dead on the terrace of an adjacent house in a village near the city of Agra, in northern India, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. What more [...]
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Reuters reported that the Milan Attorney General and the civil parties of the Revenue Agency and the Indian Ministry of Defense filed today the appeal before the Court of Cassation of the second sentence of acquittal issued by the Court of Appeal of Milan against the former CEO of Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland Giuseppe Orsi and [...]
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A senior Pentagon official reported on Wednesday, ahead of a high-level dialogue between Washington and New Delhi, the United States cannot guarantee India a sanction waiver to the extent it acquires important weapons and defense systems. from Russia. The United States has imposed radical sanctions [...]
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The former CEO of AgustaWestland and Finmeccanica Giuseppe Orsi and Bruno Spagnolini, the former head of the IAF SP Tyagi and other defendants were summoned in late July in India by the New Delhi court for money laundering, related to the VVIP chopper scam . Times of India reports. Special judge Arvind Kumar ordered the defendants to [...]
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It is no coincidence that the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was organized while the G7 is taking place in Canada. It is also no coincidence that Trump had talked about the G8, trying to include Russia, among the greats of the earth. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional alliance led by China and Russia, of [...]
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Pakistan has officially fired a former director of its powerful intelligence agency and warned him not to leave the country after co-authoring a controversial book with his Indian counterpart. Asad Durrani is a retired Pakistani Army general who served as Director General of the Pakistan Military Intelligence Directorate […]
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to China to strengthen bilateral relations. Chinese State Councilor Wang Yi announced the news that the Indian Prime Minister and President Xi will meet on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 April in the city of Wuhan, in central China. Confirmation […]
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Saudi Arabia has opened its airspace for the first time to a direct commercial flight to Israel. The inauguration of the historic route, with the New Delhi-Tel Aviv route, operated by Air India, took place yesterday, March 22, 2018. Flight 139 of the Indian company landed yesterday at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv at the end […]
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French President Macron began his visit to India today with the intention of "sealing a strong pact" with the big Asian, of which Paris would like to become the privileged partner in Europe. Arriving last night in New Delhi, the French president was welcomed at the presidential palace by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This first visit [...]
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After the electoral defeat of the Communist Party (CPI-M) in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura, a crowd of BJP militants, the center-right party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that won the elections, went to the city of Belonia with a bulldozer and knocked down a statue of Lenin that dominated the College [...]
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Iranian President Hassan Rohani was received in New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday on the last day of his visit to India. Rohani: “Relations between Iran and India do not aim to harm any other nation. The two countries must exploit common capabilities to broaden and deepen their [...]
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Pakistan is cooperating in the construction of the "peace" pipeline to transport Iranian natural gas to the country. This is the accusation launched by the Iranian oil minister, Bijan Zangeneh against Islamabad. Interviewed by the "Irna" news agency, the minister stressed that Iran has completed its part of the pipeline to the border with Pakistan and [...]
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India has developed a new test of its ballistic missile ground-to-ground long-range Agni-V, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead up to 5.000 kilometers away. The success of the launch, carried out this morning from Abdul Khalam Island off the coast of the State of Orissa, was confirmed by the Indian Defense Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman. [...]
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An Indian drone violated Chinese airspace and crashed, causing a protest in Beijing. This was reported by the deputy head of the military operations office of the Western Command Zhang Shuili. "India's move has violated China's territorial sovereignty and we are strongly opposed to this," Shuili said, according to [...]
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European Union ambassador to India Tomasz Kozlowski, on a visit to the city of Pune, in the central-western state of Maharashtra, said the EU wants New Delhi to play a more role, according to the Nova agency. "Proactive" on the international scene and that the Asian country and the EU share many interests and objectives: relations once [...]
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As reported by the Nova Agency, the government of India today approved the text of a cooperation agreement with Russia to combat terrorism and organized crime: the Indian Minister of Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad said, according to whom it is of an extraordinary initiative taken by the government today to have an Indo-Russian agreement [...]
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New troubles in sight for the Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, who has recently returned to competitive activity after a long 15-month disqualification for taking a prohibited substance. Nothing to do this time with the Siberian's sports career, but problems linked to a fraud implemented in India. If it should be proven [...]
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The Indian Ministry of Defense has issued initial approval for the purchase of 111 naval helicopters, worth 2,7 billion euros. Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Defense, underlined the importance of the project, in the context of the "Make in India" policy, as it is aimed at strengthening the domestic production sector in the [...]
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The Marine of India and Japan began an anti-submarine drill in the Indian Ocean yesterday which will end on October 31st. The operations take place in the Arabian Sea and involve a long-range P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft of the Indian Navy and two P-3 Orions of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. The P-3 Orions have [...]
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The journey of Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni to India continues, where after 70 years of relationships, he wants to revitalize the partnership after the rust of recent years, following the affair of the marines and the order of the Agusta-Westland helicopters, completed for the investigation that involved the leaders of Leonardo-Finmeccanica of the time. To seal the good [...]
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Thaw, this is the watchword between the two democracies, the Italian and the Indian. After the disagreements of recent years, the ever-flourishing commercial relations between the two countries could not be overlooked. The court case of the two marines now seems to be left behind: this is the meaning that the Delhi press attributes to the visit [...]
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The proposals put forward by Washington in New Delhi in the defense sector have the potential to change the commercial and military cooperation between the two countries. This was stated by US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, who gave his first important political speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, the Indian government expects that gas consumption will continue to increase and aims to create a trading platform in the country to ensure the sale of gas directly from producers to consumers. This was stated by the Indian Minister of Oil and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, in a speech [...]
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Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Mohammed Asif, on an official visit to Washignton, warned that "if India were to attack the country's nuclear facilities, no one should expect restraint from Pakistan." These are the words spoken by Minister Asif in response to the threat received by the Chief of Staff of the Indian Air Force, BS Dhanoa, who had [...]
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According to Nova, Pakistan does not agree with the strategy of Donald Trump's US presidential administration for Afghanistan, does not intend to fight the Afghan war on its own territory and will continue to oppose an expansion of India's role in that country " , and for this reason it would do better to prepare for a further deterioration of relations with [...]
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US Secretary of Defense James Mattis will meet his Indian counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman today during his two-day visit to India. According to the US embassy in the country, Mattis' visit aims to emphasize that Washington is a reliable partner of New Delhi and that the two states have a wide range [...]
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India, Russia: We have begun discussions on a new nuclear power plant Russia and India have started substantive discussions on a new nuclear power plant in the country, based on a Federation project. This was announced by Alexey Likhachev, head of the Russian nuclear energy corporation Rosatom. "We await an official announcement from the Indian side, but we have [...]
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With the support of SACE, which together with SIMEST constitutes the CDP Group's export and internationalization hub, the Calabrian SME Oleifici Sità has insured the supplies of olive oil in India for 150000 euros. The intervention of SACE, present in India with an office in Mumbai, allowed Oleifici Sità to offer its [...]
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President Trump in his August 21 speech for Afghanistan made important clarifications. The first, however, was due to a greater involvement of Kabul to take greater responsibility for the war in progress, thus highlighting that the country is far from a scenario of reconciliation. The second point dealt with [...]
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On his Facebook page the Hon. Elio Vito, leader of Forza Italia in the Defense Commission, commented on the reference to the Marò di Renzi. In his book, Matteo Renzi boasts that he was the one who “saved” the Maro '. Apart from the fact that the long story of Latorre Massimiliano and Salvatore Girone is not yet over, if Renzi [...]
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India's Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT), an appellate board of India's film censor authority has cleared an award-winning Hindi language film Lipstick Under My Burkha for release, officials said Wednesday. The appellate authority has asked directors of the film to make some cuts and accorded an adult certification to the film, which means its release [...]
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