India
Economy
Gold Price Hits Record Highs as Countries Ease Reliance on US Dollar
The price of spot gold reached $2,364 per ounce on Tuesday after hitting record highs for seven consecutive sessions and trading at $2,336 per ounce on Monday. Year on year, gold is up 16.5 percent.
The main driver of the...
Diplomacy
Greek General Given Guard of Honour on Trip to India
Greek General Dimitrios Choupis, Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, met with various navy officials in India today. The two nations signed the Landmark Military Cooperation Programme 224 Agreement, and the general received the Guard of Honour...
Environment
These 7 Countries Are the Only Ones That Meet WHO Air Quality Standard
According to a new report, only seven countries meet the international air quality standard, while dangerous levels of air pollution are on the rise in certain areas due to both an uptick in economic activity and the toxic impact...
Business
Greece’s Eurobank Eyes Presence in India
Greece's Eurobank is looking to establish a presence in India and is in the process of consulting with advisors and the Reserve Bank of India to open a representative office in Mumbai, the Economic Times reports.
With 80.5 billion euros...
Business
Mitsotakis Touts Greece as Attractive Investment Destination for India
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis highlighted the investment opportunities now offered by Greece to India during a speech in Mumbai on Thursday.
Addressing the Greek-Indian business forum held on the last of his two-day visit to India, Mitsotakis assured Indian businesspersons...
Culture
What Did India Learn From the Ancient Greeks?
The interaction of the two great ancient civilizations of Greece and India began with the invasion of Alexander the Great in 326 BC.
Diplomacy
Greece Is India’s Gateway to the EU, Mitsotakis Says in New Delhi
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis highlighted the importance of Greece in India's efforts to get closer to the EU during his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday.
He emphasized that thanks to the India-Middle East-Europe...
Diplomacy
Greece, India to Strengthen ‘Strategic Partnership’ in Mitsotakis Visit
The PM of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be on a two-day state visit to India beginning on February 21, 2024. The last prime ministerial visit from Greece to India took place in 2008.
India-Greece relations were elevated to a “strategic...
Ancient Greece
Why is the Ancient Greek City of Antioch Special to Indians?
Indians have a special connection with the ancient city of Antioch. The city, now part of Turkey, was renamed Antakya but their connection with it is fleeting at best when compared to the Greeks and Syrians, taking a chronological...
World
The Mystery of the Sentinelese: The Stone Age People Killing Outsiders
The Sentinelese people, residing on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, are a stone age tribe that has inhabited the island for an estimated 60,000 years.
Their population ranges from about 80 to 150 individuals, and they maintain a...