PM Modi offers linking UPI with payment systems of BIMSTEC nationsPrime Minister Narendra Modi proposes linking India's UPI with BIMSTEC member nations' payment systems to enhance trade, business, and tour...
04 Apr, 2025, 01.27 PM IST
BIMSTEC Summit likely to adopt FTA and clinch maritime transport pactThe upcoming Bimstec summit in Bangkok, held from April 2-4, aims to establish a maritime transport agreement to enhance trade between Indi...
24 Mar, 2025, 12.34 AM IST
BIMSTEC can finalise regional FTA in phases to promote investment & jobsRecommendations for taking forward the BIMSTEC grouping with the engagement of businesses of the member states include Finalising a regiona...
12 Aug, 2024, 05.47 PM IST
FTA, investment promotion, connectivity are key to greater BIMSTEC cooperationThe two-day CII BIMSTEC Business Summit 2024 in New Delhi highlighted the need for concluding the BIMSTEC Free Trade Agreement and promotin...
07 Aug, 2024, 11.06 PM IST
Piyush Goyal suggests a rethink on BIMSTEC FTACommerce Minister Piyush Goyal urged the seven BIMSTEC nations to reconsider the slow-moving free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations, sugge...
07 Aug, 2024, 02.18 PM IST
Piyush Goyal suggests BIMSTEC group members to relook proposed FTACommerce Minister Piyush Goyal called on BIMSTEC nations to reassess their sluggish FTA negotiations, proposing a preferential trade agreem...
07 Aug, 2024, 01.58 PM IST
Act East Policy gets new momentum as EAM Jaishankar, NSA Ajit Doval visit South East Asia simultaneouslyIndia accelerated its Act East Policy under Modi 3.0 with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval visiting Laos and Myanm...
29 Jul, 2024, 02.48 PM IST
PM Modi, BIMSTEC Foreign Ministers discuss ways to strengthen regional cooperationForeign Ministers from the BIMSTEC member countries have gathered in the national capital for a two-day retreat meeting to bolster cooperat...
12 Jul, 2024, 02.49 PM IST
Jaishankar suggests expansion, local solutions for BIMSTECIndia advanced BIMSTEC, focusing on South Asia-SE Asia connectivity. Jaishankar stressed the BIMSTEC Charter, 'Neighbourhood First', 'Act E...
12 Jul, 2024, 12.31 AM IST
India pitches for infusing new energies into BIMSTEC groupingIndia has called on the seven-nation Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) grouping to i...
11 Jul, 2024, 08.23 PM IST
India pushes to link South Asia with South East Asia via BIMSTECIndia is spearheading efforts to enhance connectivity between South Asia and SE Asia through BIMSTEC, starting with a Foreign Ministers mee...
06 Jul, 2024, 11.08 PM IST
View: Time has come to realise the BIMSTEC dreamThough the progress in regional integration in the BIMSTEC, even after the 25 years of BIMSTEC, has remained slow, the successful implement...
02 Apr, 2022, 11.32 AM IST
BIMSTEC member states must collectively combat terrorism, violent extremism: JaishankarSpeaking at the 18th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting in Colombo, Jaishankar also said that cooperation on port facilities, ferry services, coas...
29 Mar, 2022, 07.30 PM IST
India to urge Nepal to hold Bimstec meetWith both Bhutan & Bangladesh set to polls in 2018, India is also keen on the coastal shipping arrangement to infuse momentum into the sub-...
08 May, 2018, 08.20 AM IST
Sushma Swaraj gears up for Nepal visitThe meeting will help prepare for the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit— to b...
22 Jul, 2017, 09.05 AM IST
ET GBS 2017: Keep initiative people-centric, say panelistsEnthused by India’s outreach during the Goa summit in 2016, Sri Lanka’s minister, Sajith Premadasa, suggested setting up a BIMSTEC fund for...
30 Mar, 2017, 12.38 AM IST
- India restarts free trade talks with Bimstec
After months of inaction, negotiations on the free trade agreement (FTA) between India and Bimstec countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, ...
27 Oct, 2006, 02.59 AM IST