In this article, we have updated all-important Bilateral and Regional Groupings in 2018 between January 2018 to December 2018 on monthly basis. The events are compiled from newspapers (The Hindu, TOI, IE & ET), magazines, and various online resources.
December 2018
- India to Chair Kimberley Process
- 5 action points in Indo-Pacific region
- India to host G20 Summit in 2022
- 2nd trilateral meeting after 12 years
- China rejects India’s proposal
- CBDT to host WCO meet
- G20 avoids commitment on free trade
- India gets WTO nod to establish dispute panel
- MoU ink for projects in third countries
- MoC between India and Japan in Environmental Cooperation
- Ex Aviaindra 2018
- India, China to resume Hand in Hand
- Platform for diplomacy launched
- Hand-in-Hand 2018
- Review pact to build nuclear reactors
- India extends assistance to Maldives
- France to introduce GAFA tax
- China, Pakistan and Afghanistan sign MoU
- MoU between India and Afghanistan approved
- India and RCEP members
November 2018
- Dharma guardian 2018 commenced
- MoC between India and Russia
- The MoC will enable technical cooperation in the following areas
- Joint research on WTO reforms
- Solar Alliance to all UN countries
- Trade through Lipukekh pass
- India and the Republic of Korea sign MoU
- Quad countries to focus on maritime security
- US exempts India from Chabahar port.
- MoU between India and Italy approved.
- SIMBEX 18.
- Indo-German project for human-wildlife conflicts.
- Exercise ‘Samudra Shakti’
- RCEP pact put off till next year
- First India-Singapore Hackathon felicitates
- India votes against UNGA draft
- Theresa May wins backing for Brexit deal
- Australia takes India to WTO
- Exercise INDRA
- MoU regarding AIM apprised
- Djibouti gets first India-built centre
- India to press for a better deal
- India extends aid for border development projects
October 2018
- India, Uzbekistan sign 17 agreements
- IBSAMAR-VI kicks off
- IORA Countries adopt the Delhi Declaration
- India- Russia S-400 defence deal
- AIM & SIRIUS sign MoU
- Codeshare pact sign with Air Seychelles
- JIMEX 18 Commence
- 32nd CORPAT
- First India-Israel Innovation Centre opens
- 1st joint project of India and China
- India urges IMF to implement quota reforms
- India, China to sign ISC agreement
- Dharma Guardian – 2018
- India and China to sign first security pact
- India to host UNICEF’s global meet
- Multilateral air encounter code
- India, China ink security pact
- MoU amongst BRICS approved
- India, Myanmar agree to take on insurgents
- India, Japan ink pact in Yoga
September 2018
- Fourth BIMSTEC Summit
- 6th EAS-EMM and 15th India-ASEAN- EMM held
- KAZIND 2018
- India wants 20 years to cut tariffs under RCEP
- India ready to take steps forward
- BIMSTEC embarrassment for India
- The US reviewing India’s Chabahar port development
- Chinese intrusions declined
- PM Modi & Sheikh Hasina flag off India-Bangladesh Friendship pipeline
- India opening rupee window for Iran oil
- Yudh Abhyas 2018 concluded
August 2018
- India STA-1 status
- China, ASEAN navies stage first emergency drills
- Government to defer ‘retaliatory tariff’
- India get STA-1 status
- Exercise Maitree 2018
- India not to join US-led counter to China’s BRI
- Adoption programme with India
- Maitree 2018 concluded
- PB-18 conclude
- India, Japan to expand defence ties
- Ink protocol to amend CECA
July 2018
- Bolivia offers its Lithium reserves
- World’s biggest trading bloc
- India in talks to run ‘world’s emptiest airport’
- New visas to Indian scientists
- Join hands for industrial revolution 4.0
- India, South Korea Sign Five MoUs
- First Chairman of Rajya Sabha to sign an MOU
- India, South Korea sign 11 agreements
- Indians in ‘Windrush’ immigration scandal
- Brexit strategy
- Largest visa centre in World
- UN elects Iceland to replace US
- Govt gives nod to Iran bank
- Revised travel agreement with Bangladesh
- A deal signed to defy protectionism
- India’s BRO completes road in Bhutan
- First Meeting on Border Haats
- India, US set to sign COMCASA
- Invest India and UAE sign MoU
June 2018
- US Pacific Command renamed
- Join hands to counter expansionist China
- IND-INDO CORPAT
- Agreement in the field of Sustainable Urban Development
- Ex-Malabar 2018
- Sign MoU to extend health cooperation
- India, China ink 2 MoUs
- India refuses to endorse China’s BRI
- Document sign at Singapore summit
- Malabar 2018
- Yoga Day in SCO
May 2018
- WTO sets up key panel
- First Ever Joint Army exercise on Malaysian Soil
- India-Japan Energy Dialogue
- India rejects US request
- India- South Africa Business Summit Concludes
- India in Asia-Pacific on power index
- Joint surveillance of Maldives EEZ
- WTO sets up panel for renewables energy case
- India takes convention centre route to Africa
- MoU between India and France apprised
- India drags US to WTO
- Steps to fight US sanctions on Iran
- China’s another flashpoint with India
- India, China agree to start talks on bilateral SSA
- Surya Kiran begins
April 2018
- India abstains from voting on Moscow’s proposal
- India, Nepal seek new direction to bilateral ties
- Fuel pipeline project
- China protests India’s ‘transgression’ in Arunachal
- India at CWG 2018
- India, South Korea to ink pact for seafarers
- China protests India’s ‘transgression’ in Arunachal
- Indian Consortium and Saudi Aramco Sign MoU
- First India-Nordic summit
- Seven MoUs at DefExpo
- Nordic free-trade bastion
- UK joins International Solar Alliance
- India wins UN subsidiary bodies
- Joint task force on natural gas
- India, Nordic countries vow to strengthen ties
- India takes US to WTO’s safeguard committee on steel
- Increase in voting rights at World Bank
- MoU in the field of Traditional Systems of Medicine approved
- HARIMAU SHAKTI 2018
- India-China Informal Summit
- Joint economic project in Afghanistan
March 2018
- First initiative under an Indo-Russian deal
- India, Jordan ink 12 pacts
- India, Vietnam ink three MoUs
- Planned Indian military base stirs
- Freedom of navigation in SCS
- India to become EBRD’s member
- MoU between UPSC and PSC of Mauritius
- First ever ‘crime-free zone’ launched
- WTO mini-ministerial in Delhi
- First ISA summit
- India, France ink 14 agreements
- Delhi agenda adopted
- India nudges WTO services council
- NDB, ISA tie up
- WTO to work on alternative mechanism
- WTO dispute on export schemes
- US drags India to WTO
- First India-Japan Workshop on DRR
- Anti-dumping duty imposed on Ofloxacin
- First India-Japan Workshop on DRR
- WTO summit in India
- Anti-dumping probe on solar cells
- ISA and India sign the Host Country Agreement
- India close to signing COMCASA
- First US shale gas reaches India
February 2018
- India joins Ashgabat agreement
- Createch Summit in Mumbai
- India invites WTO members for the mini-ministerial meet
- Minamata Convention approved
- US blocks India’s request for WTO compliance panel
- Grand Collar of the State of Palestine
- India, UAE agree to strengthen economic ties
- India, UAE to hold first joint naval drill
- India, Oman sign 8 agreements
- India US sort our issues on poultry
- MoU Signed between BSI and NHM
- India, Iran sign pact
- India notifies revised pact with Kenya
- Pact for smart city cooperation
- TAPI breaks ground on Afghan section
- India to host Milan
- India, US hold talks on defence cooperation
January 2018
- Six countries enter UNSC
- Cabinet nod to India, UK pact
- India rejects US solar claim at WTO
- India, UK ink pacts on illegal migrants
- India attends its first SCO meeting
- Exercise ‘Vajra Prahar’
- India now in ‘Australia Group’
- India, Cambodia ink pacts.
- India, Seychelles sign revised agreement
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