{"id":5509,"date":"2025-06-24T15:53:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2025-06-26T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:33:27","slug":"sixteenth-meeting-of-inbcgsi-was-held-in-pune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=5509","title":{"rendered":"Sixteenth Meeting of INBCGSI\u00a0 was held in Pune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Pune. The Sixteenth Meeting of the India-Nepal Bilateral Consultative Group on Security Issues (INBCGSI) was held in Pune, India on 23-24 June 2025. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Indian delegation was led by Shri Munu Mahawar, Additional Secretary (North), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India; and the Nepali delegation was led by\u00a0 Gahendra Rajbhandari, Joint Secretary (South Asia), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Nepal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The delegations comprised officials from the respective Foreign and Defence Ministries as well as Directorates of the Indian Army and the Nepali Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In the meeting both sides held productive discussions on a wide range of issues relating to security and defence cooperation such as equipment supplies, training, joint military exercises, disaster relief operations and military exchanges. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In addition, the delegations also visited key public and private defence sector manufacturing facilities to explore possibilities for mutually beneficial collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The INBCGSI, which was established in 2003, is the umbrella institutional mechanism between India and Nepal that coordinates bilateral defence and security cooperation.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250624_155217_996.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pune. The Sixteenth Meeting of the India-Nepal Bilateral Consultative Group on Security Issues (INBCGSI) was held in Pune, India on 23-24 June 2025. The Indian delegation was led by Shri Munu Mahawar, Additional Secretary (North), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India; and the Nepali delegation was led by\u00a0 Gahendra Rajbhandari, Joint Secretary (South Asia), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newspaper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250624_155123.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5511,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions\/5511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}