{"id":298187,"date":"2019-10-28T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=298187"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:24:37","slug":"pm-modi-to-embark-on-two-day-visit-to-saudi-arabia-today-energy-rupay-card-high-on-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-modi-to-embark-on-two-day-visit-to-saudi-arabia-today-energy-rupay-card-high-on-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi to embark on two-day visit to Saudi Arabia today, energy, RuPay card high on agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India and Saudi Arabia will sign a raft of key pacts to significantly ramp up ties in several key sectors including oil and gas, renewable energy and civil aviation during Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s two-day visit to the Gulf nation beginning Monday. The major pacts to be signed included an agreement to launch an India-Saudi Arabia Strategic Partnership Council, an MoU to roll out RuPay card, India\u2019s digital payment system, and a separate one on bringing coordination between e-migration systems of the two countries, Secretary (Economic Relations) in the External Affairs Ministry T S Tirumurti said.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing reporters on Modi\u2019s visit, the official said both sides will also deliberate on further enhancing defence and security cooperation, adding the first naval exercise between the two nations will take place by end of this year or early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Saudi Arabia will sign a raft of key pacts to significantly ramp up ties in several key sectors including oil and gas, renewable energy and civil aviation during Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s two-day visit to the Gulf nation beginning Monday. The major pacts to be signed included an agreement to launch an India-Saudi Arabia Strategic Partnership Council, an MoU to roll out RuPay card, India\u2019s digital payment system, and a separate one on bringing coordination between e-migration systems of the two countries, Secretary (Economic Relations) in the External Affairs Ministry T S Tirumurti said. Briefing reporters on Modi\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}