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India and Thailand will sign a
double taxation treaty and an MoU for setting up an Ayurveda Chair in one of
the Thai Universities during the three-day visit of External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj. The Minister will be the guest of honour on Sunday at the
inaugural ceremony of the 16th World Sanskrit Conference, where she will
deliver her speech in Sanskrit. Over 600 scholars from 60 countries will
participate in the five-day conference. Ms. Swaraj will co-chair India-Thailand
Joint Commission meeting during which the two countries will sign a double
taxation avoidance treaty and exchange instruments of ratification on the
extradition treaty signed between them in 2013. She will have an audience with
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, a scholar of Sanskrit and Royal Patron of the
World Sanskrit Conference. Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani
will attend the concluding ceremony of the conference on July 2.
Ø Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while sharing the roadmap for
Digital India, will unveil various e-governance schemes such as Digital Locker,
e-education and e-health at the Digital India Week. The big-ticket launch of
the Rs. 1.13 lakh crore Digital India project will witness participation
from over 10,000 guests. Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry, RIL Chairman and MD
Mukesh Ambani, Airbus India CEO Peter Gutsmiedl, Adiya Birla Group Chairman
Kumaramangalam Birla and Delta Electronics CEO Ping Cheng are among the
corporate heads expected at the event.
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As part of India’s deepening
maritime security cooperation with Indian Ocean littoral nations, INS Teg a
stealth frigate of the Indian Navy which is on a two-month long deployment in
the South Indian Ocean has docked at Port Victoria in Seychelles on Friday.
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