Reaching out to Bhutan

Tue, 17 June 2014

11:44

Thimphu has been as out of the ordinary a choice of destination for the first bilateral visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as was his invitation to the heads of SAARC countries to his swearing-in. The common theme though is India's neighbourhood, and the strategic overtones in the Prime Minister's Bhutan visit were hard to miss. Read

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