{"id":309615,"date":"2019-02-20T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309615"},"modified":"2019-02-20T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:48:11","slug":"saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-arrives-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-arrives-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-arrives-in-india\/modi-salman\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-309620\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309620 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/modi-salman-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/modi-salman-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/modi-salman-768x642.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/modi-salman-696x582.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/modi-salman-503x420.jpg 503w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/modi-salman.jpg 882w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday evening arrived in New Delhi for a two-day official visit. He was warmly received by Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0at the airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Modi said, &#8220;India is delighted to welcome HRH Mohammed Bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">After Salman\u2019s arrival, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted, \u201cA new chapter in bilateral relations Breaking protocol, PM @narendramodi personally recieves HRH Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as he arrives on his first bilateral visit to India!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On Wednesday, Prime Minister Modi will hold bilateral talks with the Crown Prince at the Hyderabad House. The two sides will also sign several agreements after the talks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">India and Saudi are expected to sign five agreements in areas of investment, tourism, housing and information and broadcasting. Informing about the visit, Secretary, Economic Affairs in the External Affairs Ministry T S Tirumurti said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to the official sources, Modi and Salman are expected to look at ways to enhancing defence ties, including having a joint naval exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The two nations are expected to set up a &#8221;Strategic Partnership Council&#8221; at a ministerial level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel on Tuesday said, \u201cAs Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman arrives in Delhi, his decision to reward Pakistan by giving them a $20 billion package,96 hours after our jawans were martyred is most unfortunate I expect the Prime Minister to convey the nation\u2019s sentiments to the Saudi Arabian delegation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday evening arrived in New Delhi for a two-day official visit. He was warmly received by Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0at the airport. Modi said, &#8220;India is delighted to welcome HRH Mohammed Bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.&#8221; After Salman\u2019s arrival, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309622,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309615\/revisions\/309622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}