India and Russia to explore new areas of partnership

New Delhi: The maiden Indo-Russian Strategic Economic Dialogue will be held in St Petersburg on November 25-26 to explore new areas of partnership including artificial intelligence (AI), transport and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to expand strategic economic ties between the two countries, said officials. NITI Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar will lead the Indian side at the dialogue, which was scheduled after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin agreed that the economic partnership between the two countries was not commensurate with the political relations.