Indian Prime Minister Modi and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will hold a virtual summit today (February 9). This will be the first virtual summit of PM Modi in 2021. In 2020, PM Modi had several virtual summits with his counterparts from Australia, EU, Sri Lanka, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam. The virtual summit will see many announcements including a likely signing of the agreement on Shahtoot Dam that will provide clean water to 2 million residents of the national capital Kabul. This will be the 2nd dam India will be building in the country after the Salma or India–Afghanistan friendship dam in Herat Province of the country.

Source: dna February 09, 2021 01:07 UTC