India, Pakistan begins talks on Wullar barrage-Tulbul project

India and Pakistan began a four-day talks in Islamabad on Wednesday on the Wullar barrage-Tulbul navigation project as part of the bilateral dialogue process that was revived earlier this year after a two-year gap in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks.The Indian side is being led by Water Resources Secretary Dhruv Vijai Singh while Water and Power Secretary Javed Iqbal heads the Pakistani team.Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal met Secretary Iqbal on Tuesday ahead of the parleys.

FM holds Bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Vietnam

The Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee had a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi, Vietnam, today. During the meeting, Shri Mukherjee said that the Strategic Partnership established between the two countries is based on implicit mutual trust, a convergence of interests including in the field of defence and security and similar approaches on global and regional issues. As two dynamic and fast growing economies of Asia, our effort is to add greater content, through concrete programmes and projects, to our Strategic Partnership, he said.