Ambassador of India Sanjay Rana visited Lahij, Ismayilli to meet the youth and women participating in the business development and management program organised by the Azerbaijan Rural Investment Project (AZRIP) of the Ministry of Agriculture of Republic of Azerbaijan with support of trainers from Kudumbashree organization from the Indian State of Kerala.

An Iranian official says that reports on handing over the operation of the strategic Chabahar port to India are not true.

Uzbekistan has invited the Indian IT companies to participate in investment projects in the country, the Ministry for Development of Information and Communication Technologies of Uzbekistan announced.

Director for investments at Iran's National Petrochemical Company (NPC) said the Indian government has always been seeking to purchase gas from Iran at a lower price.

The first state visit of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to India will take place in October 2018, Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Sukhrob Kholmuradov said, opening the meeting of the eleventh Uzbek-Indian intergovernmental commission, Uzbek media reported Aug. 16.

Two privately-owned Iranian banks, Parsian and Saman, plan to open branches in India, Chairman of Iran-India Business Council (IIBC) Ebrahim Jamili said.

Indian officials are scheduled to discuss at length the US sanctions on Iran with a delegation of US experts, which is expected to arrive in New Delhi on July 16, Sputnik news reported.

India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj says New Delhi will keep trading with Iran and will only follow sanctions imposed by the United Nations and not those imposed by any other country, such as the United States, against the Islamic Republic, reported Trend with a reference to PressTV.

India, which hosted the founding summit of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in March 2018, invited Azerbaijan to join the Alliance as a partner country. Although Azerbaijan is not located between the two tropics, it enjoys a large amount of sunlight.

India is interested in developing cooperation in tourism, education, transport, energy and other spheres with Azerbaijan, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on April 4.