The first Steering Committee meeting for the 57th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) was held on 21 August 2026 at Kartavya Bhawan-2 in New Delhi. The 57th...
Uttar Pradesh and Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture signed multiple Memoranda of Understanding on 21 August 2026 at the UP-Japan Investment Meet 2026 in Lucknow. The event was held at...
BRICS Tourism Ministers adopted the BRICS Tourism Ministers’ Communiqué 2026, also called the Jaipur Declaration, by consensus in Jaipur, Rajasthan, on 21 August 2026. The ministerial meeting was...
India and Brazil signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Pune on 21 August 2026 to expand cooperation in telecommunications and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). The signing...
India and Mauritius signed a Government-to-Government Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the oil and gas sector in Port Louis, Mauritius, on 20 August 2026. The agreement was...
The Cameroon-flagged general cargo vessel M/V LUTUF was seized by armed pirates on 17 August 2026 off Marraya in Somalia’s Puntland region. Six Indian nationals are among the...
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, a veteran Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader, was elected as the 23rd President of Bangladesh on 20 August 2026 in a parliamentary vote held in...
The 31st Southern Zonal Council meeting commenced on 20 August 2026 at Kovalam near Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu. The meeting was chaired by Union Home and Cooperation Minister...
India and Japan signed a Memorandum of Arrangement on Maritime Security Cooperation in New Delhi on 20 August 2026. The pact creates a formal framework for cooperation between...
The 2nd BRICS 2026 Tourism Working Group Meeting was held in Jaipur, Rajasthan, on 19 August 2026 under India’s BRICS Chairship. The Ministry of Tourism of the Government...
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iturup Island, also known as Etorofu in Japan, on 13 August 2026. Iturup is one of the four main islands in the Kuril...
India hosted the virtual Eighth BRICS Youth Energy Summit on 17 August 2026 under its BRICS Chairship. The summit focused on youth participation in energy cooperation and brought...
