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January
MoUs Purposes
Maharashtra&Pawan Hans To boost tourism
GOI&Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, For operational & financial turnaround of Discoms under the
UP and Bihar Scheme UDAY
India & Bangladesh For operation of traditional haats
On heavy industry,especially in industrial
India & Czech Republic
cooperation and facilities construction.
India &Australia Social Security Agreement
Reliance Defence Ltd & Andhra Pradesh To set up naval facility at Visakhapatnam
Sri Lanka & Pakistan To expand their bilateral free trade agreement
To set up a USD 10 billion industrial park and smart cities in
Haryana&China
the state
NABARD & NRSC For monitoring of watershed projects
India&Maldives Cooperation in the field of Health.
Government of India & JICA For Cleaning of Mula-Mutha River in Pune
For use of spatial technology for monitoring and managing
NHAI - ISRO and NECTAR
National Highways
Madhya Pradesh &Singapore Field of New & Renewable Energy
Exim Bank & Andhra Pradesh For promoting exports in the state.
Maharashtra &Tata Trust skill training programme for the youth
ISRO & KISR Cooperation in the area of outer space
Indian Bureau of Mines &NRSC For monitoring mining activity
MSDE & DoT For skill development in telecom sector
India & Armenia Double Taxation Avoidance Convention Amendment
India with Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan For cyber security pacts
India and Singapore Field of Civil Aviation

February
MoUs Purposes
NIIF&Rusnano OJSC To set-up Russia-India High Technology Private Equity
Fund
Labour Ministry and employment & career To engaged in employment and career related activities.
activities orgs
India & Sweden On Technical Cooperation in Rail Sector
India and UK To explore pact on information exchange on criminals
Collaboration of Crop Sciences
India & Singapore In the field of Urban Development Governance
and Capacity Building.
India & BRICS Cooperation in the fields of Science, Technology and
Innovation
IIPE and Andhra University To start the IIPE sessions during the academic year2016-
17.
India and Armenia Agricultural Cooperation
India and Tehran $150 million for Chabahar port in Iran
PrasarBharati& To the broadcast related endeavors Exchange of News
Empressa de communicacao Programmes and co-production.

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BML Munjal University &Axis Bank To promote cooperation and advance academic and
business exchanges.
NRDC & Indian Institute of Chemical Biology To Promote Entrepreneurship
Jharkhand&Adani Group To set up thermal power plant
CBDT &United Kingdom Bilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs)
India and US To improve systems at DGCA
NRDC&IACS Technology Transfer
India & Maldives Avoidance of Double taxation income
India-US Space cooperation mechanism
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement 12 nations
India, Afghanistan For visa-free travel by envoys
NATO, EU Cyber defence cooperation
US and Russia To stop Bloodshed in Syria
Manipal University &University of Chicago For academic cooperation
USA
Israel & Turkish To sell $1.3 billion worth of gas to Edeltech
Indo-UK Healthcare To establish medical institutions in Haryana

March
MoUs
Tata Power SED &Cranfield University
Telangana& Maharashtra
NTPC and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Union Government and Jammu & Kashmir
India and Australia
India and China
MS Swaminathan Research Foundation&Kalinga
Institute of Social Sciences
Railway ministry with Japan and Russia
India & Bahrain
M/O Tourism and Ecotourism Society of India
Ministry of Railways &ISRO
India & Bangladesh
India & World Bank
Indian Army and Indusind Bank
RBI &Bank of Israel
Yes Bank &Indo-Brazil chamber
NHAI & Indian School of Business
India &Myanmar
World Health Organisation
TATA motors &Indian Army
Consumer Affairs Ministry & industry bodies
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Purposes
Strategic partnership through research and development
(R&D)
For construction of five Barrages on Godavari River
For Research and Development
UDAY Scheme
Social Security Agreement Pact
Exchange offers on tariff cuts in goods imports
To establish Research Chair
For technical cooperation in the railway sector
Cooperation for Prevention of Human Trafficking
To take its commitments to Responsible and Sustainable
tourism
For developing Remote Sensing and geographic
information system (GIS) for Remote Sensing at
unmanned railway crossing
Petroleum trade with a special goodwill train loaded with
High speed diesel from India to Bangladesh
USD 35 Million loan deal to Madhya Pradesh for the
Citizen Access to Responsive Services Project.
Defence Salary package
For Information Exchange and Banking supervision
For cooperation in knowledge sharing, consultancy, skill
and technology
For skill development of its technical and managerial
manpower
To supply 18 Meter Gauge 1350 HP Diesel Electric
Locomotives to Myanmar Railways
To popularize the Ayurvedic medicines
To supply 619 more Highly mobilized trucks
to the Indian Army
To promote consumer welfare
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India & France To create 6 Nuclear Reactors

India &Lithuania In the field of Agriculture
India & UAE In the fields of Infrastructure development with the NIIF
India & Russia To minimize the consequences of Natural calamities like
Flood and Earthquake
Telangana& French aviation trainer To provide training to the aviation fraternity and
aerospace
Nepal&China To build a strategic railway link between the two
countries through Tibet
Iran &France Confidential oil agreement
Iran & Pakistan To boost trade and security
Mizoram & JICA(Japanese International Capacity Enhancement for Sustainable Agriculture and
Cooperative Agency) Irrigation Development
Asian Development Bank (ADB) To collaborate on supporting Indias expansion plans for
United States Agency for International clean energy infrastructure
Development (USAID)

April
MoUs Purposes
Indian Oil Corporation & Bangladesh Petroleum To scrutinize the possibility of jointly working on setting
Corporation up a LPG import terminal at Chittagong port
India&USA for setting up a new Laser Interferometer Gravitational-
wave Observatory (LIGO) in India
India and Saudi Arabia Labour Co-operation
Technical Cooperation Program
Executive Program for Cooperation in the Field of
Handicrafts
Cooperation in the Exchange of Intelligence
Framework for Investment Promotion Cooperation
India & Papua New Guinea Cooperation in the field of health area and medical
science
India & South Korea Cooperation and mutual assistance in development of
Ports
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority To enhance the cooperation between the two bodies in the
of India and the Insurance Authority,UAE field of insurance supervision by providing a framework
for co-operation such as channels of communication.
Bombay stock exchange & For listing S&P BSE Sensex-based derivatives contracts
Korea Exchange (KRX) of South Korea on the latter.
IMPRINT programme 25 ministries comprising human resource development
Maharashtra & To link all government colleges and medical colleges to
Tata Trusts the national cancer grid for uniform cancer profiling and
quality treatment
The Department of Space (DoS) and Airports To deliver scientific considerations for airports
Authority of India (AAI) construction in India.

India & Sweden For technical cooperation in the rail

sector.
India & Maldives Cooperation in the fields of defence, tourism, taxation,
space research, and conservation of mosques.
Paris Agreement 172 countries signed and Environment Minister
PrakashJavadekar on behalf of India
Central Council for Research in homoeopathy Field of education and research in Homoeopathy.

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(CCRH)with Canada and Armenia

United Nations Childrens Emergency
Fund(UNICEF) &GITAM University
India & German
India & UAE
India & Bangladesh
India &South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network
(SAWEN)
Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS)
&Educational Consultants India Limited, a central
PSU
India & the US
Indian School of Business (ISB) and Singapore
Management University (SMU)
India and Mauritius
India with Bahrain, Kuwait, Nepal, South Korea,
Sri Lanka, Vietnam and BRICS Nations
India & Bhutan
UNICEF &Indian Medical Associations
Kerala
India & Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka With Japan, India
India & Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
FICCI &Australia Indian Business Council
(AIBC).
Tata Trusts &Odisha government
To empower the adolescents 10-19 years and address the
adolescent issues in the district.
For Ganga Rejuvenation under the NamamiGange
Programme
To prevent all forms of human trafficking, especially
women and children.
Cooperation in the field of Fisheries
andaquaculture and allied sectors through mutually
agreed activities and procedures.
To strengthen ties with the member countries in
controlling the trans-boundary wildlife crime through
communication, coordination, collaboration, capacity
building and cooperation in the region.
To work in areas of education and human resource
development.
To enhance collaboration on tackling offshore tax evasion
and increase cooperation in sharing of cross-border tax
information.
For collaboration in innovation, entrepreneurship and
research for five years.
Cooperation in the field of Traditional Medicine and
Homoeopathy
To Organize Youth Exchange Programmes with these
countries.
Technical Cooperation in the Field of Capacity Building,
BenchAprking and Bilateral Exchange in Infrastructure
Engineering
To promote safe and healthy practices across the state for
improving maternal and child health.
To Supply 150 Boats to Mullaitivu Fishermen
Collaboration in Science & Technology
For a possible $100 million line of credit to simplify
exports to IDBs member countries.
To strengthen and promote business ties with Australia.
The agreement signed during the Invest in India
To achieve elimination of Malaria from the state by 2030

May
MoUs Purposes
India & Australia To enhance R&D capabilities in biotech
India &Qatar Cooperation in field of IT and Telecom sector
Indo &Japan Collaboration in the Field of Science & Technology and
sign MOU for Cooperation in Sports
India & Slovenia Protocol amending the India-Slovenia Double Taxation
Avoidance Convention
India &Bangladesh 21st-century nuclear deal
India &US To deepen scientific collaboration
India & Japan For power development
India &Maldives Cooperation in the field of tourism
Canada, Iceland, India, Israel, New Zealand and To deal with issues related to taxes.
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the Peoples Republic of China

AyushMinistry &WHO
India &WHO
Swinburne University in Australian &India
India &Mauritius
India &Mauritius
ISRO &37 countries
Indian Space Research Organisation & the United
Arab Emirates Space Agency
SEBI and Financial Services Regulatory
Authority, Abu Dhabi
J&K Gov and Delhi IIT
Ministry of Women & Child Development
(MWCD) and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
(BMGF)
Ministry of Railways and Forest Department of
Haryana & Punjab
National Research Development Corporation
(NRDC) Agreements with
NabagramReshamShilpaUnnayan Cooperative
Society Ltd of West Bengal and Dariapur Rural
Development Society of West Bengal
Infosys Foundation &Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research (IISER)
Gov&NDTV Ethnic Retail Ltd.
Telangana gov&US-based healthcare tech firm
Eclat Health Solutions
To spread significance of Ayurveda
For Global promotion of Traditional Systems of Medicine
To figure out major health challenges in India.
To start imposing capital gains tax oninvestmentsfrom
April 2017
Cooperation in cooperatives and related fields.
For exploration and use of outer space
Cooperation in the exploration and user of outer space for
peaceful purposes.
For mutual co-operation and technical assistance.
To establish Indian Institute of Technology in the Jammu
& Kashmir
Cooperation in Information and Communication
Technology
For plantation of trees alongside Railway Track on
Railway Land Boundary
For the commercialization of GharSodhon.
To pursue high quality education for economically
weaker section students.
To popularize India Handloom products
To invest USD 15 million in the state to provide 1,000
jobs

June
MoUs Purposes
India & Qatar 1.Cooperation in Tourism, Skill Development and Health
2.Collaboration and mutual assistance in custom matters
3.In the field of Youth and Sports
India &French Civil Aviation Authority For technical Cooperation in establishing International
Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standards and
Practices
India & Switzerland To enhance cooperation in skill development
India &Tanzania Field of water resources
India & Taiwan Air Services Agreement
India & Tunisia Co-operation in IT, handicrafts sector
India&Namibia On capacity building for civil servants, centre of
excellence in ICT
India & Morocco In the fields of
1.Water resources
2.Television broadcasting
3.Institutional cooperation
4.Cultural &Educational exchange
5.Trading partnership
IndiaandUS 1.To enhance cooperation in wildlife conservation,
Management and Combating Wildlife Trafficking

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National Investment and Infrastructure
Fund &Qatar Investment Authority
ISRO & Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
South Delhi Municipal Corporation &SECI
RD Ministry & ISRO
Union Public Service Commission and Royal
Civil Service Commission, Bhutan
TERI&Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL)
India &Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German
Research Centre
Andhra Pradesh &Threenation consortium of
China Huanqin Contracting and Engineering
Corporation, LEPL Ventures Private Limited and
Isomeric Holdings
FSSAI&ASCI
IWAI &IPGPL
SBI&Caixa Bank
MoUs
Himachal Pradesh &National Thermal Power
Corporation (NTPC) and National Hydel Power
Corporation(NHPC)
SBI & IIT Bombay
IRCTC & SBI
NITI Aayog&Intel
National Aluminium Company
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
Ola&National SafaiKaramcharis Finance and
Development Corporation (NSKFDC)
Dabur& DIHAR Defense Institute of High
Altitude Research
NetApp& Varanasi and Karnal
Andhra Pradesh &Japan
UP & Netherland
AYUSH & WHO
Karnataka&Sanya People Municipal Government
of China
Bihar&Bangkok-based Asian Disaster
Preparedness Centre (ADPC)
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2.For Exchange of information on terror
To facilitate hassle free entry of Indians into the United
States at Selected airports
3.Cooperation on Energy Security, Clean Energy and
Climate Chang
To encourage Infrastructure Investments in India.
Cooperation in the field of outer space
To install solar panels
For geo-tagging the assets created under MGNREGA in
each gram panchayat.
For sharing of experience and capability of both the
parties in the area of recruitmentprocess
To work together in empowering farmers.
For geosciences
To set up a gasbased fertilizer
To check misleading advertisements
For 476 crore Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport
Project
To fund Indo-Spanish Joint Ventures
July
Purposes
To establish first hydro engineering college in
Bilaspur to boost regional development.
For promoting Startups
To promote UTS and E-Ticketing System to ease the
Service for Passengers
To set up the first 10 Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) in the
country to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination
among young innovators.
For research and development cooperation in the fields of
mutual interest.
To focus on building a sustainable framework by
supporting
To establish sustainable cultivation of rarefied medicinal
plants in Ladakh
To develop Smart City Developments.
To develop food value chain
To set up a new Skill Development Centre for Famers of
UP.
For promotion the systems Indian medicines that
encompasses Yoga and Ayurveda, Worldwide.
To nurture the trade between Sanya City and Karnataka
To implement the Roadmap for Disaster Risk Reduction
in Bihar (2015-30).
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Haryana & China Fortune Land Development To develop new industrial township in Gurgaon district at
(CFLD) $ 5 billion
BHEL&Bangladesh To build the 1,320MW coal-fired power plant at Rampal
of Bagerhat, near the Sundarbans mangrove forest.
India & Mozambique 1.For long term agreement for purchase of pulses from
Mozambique,
2.On drug demand reduction and prevention of illicit
trafficking of drugs
3.In the field of youth affairs and sports
4. On Airline Promotions
India & South Africa 1.On grassroot innovation in selected areas
agricultural technology
2.For indigenous knowledge systems
3.In tourism and information and communications
India &Tanzania 1.To work closely and efficiently to combat the twin
threats of terrorism and climate change,
2.On water resource management and development.
3.For establishment of vocational training centre
at Zanzibar.
4.On visa waiver for diplomatic/official passport holders
India & Kenya 1.On revised double taxation avoidance agreement,
2.On Defense Cooperation.
3.For the line of Credit Agreement for the US $29.95
million
4.MoU between Bureau of Indian standards and Bureau
of Kenya standards
India & Switzerland For Education, Research and Innovation of the Swiss
Confederation for cooperation in skill development
India &Mauritius In the field of rural development and poverty alleviation
India & Tanzania In the field of Traditional Systems of Medicine and
Homeopathy.
India & USA For Petroleum & Renewable Energy conservation
India &Japan social security agreement
Indian & Thyssennkrupp marine systems, To enhance Indias defense capability.
Germany

August
MoUs Purposes
Sri Lanka & China Tripartite pact to construct mega port city
- $1.4 billion
India & South Africa Cooperation in the field of Tourism
India & Croatia Economic Cooperation
India & Mauritius Revised tax treaty from April 1 next year in a bid to curb
tax evasion.
India &Germany To foster conditions that will help create and improve
workplace-based vocational training in Indias industrial
clusters
India & Myanmar Cooperation in the field of traditional systems of
medicine
India & Cyprus DTAA pact to avoid Tax Evasion
India & Fiji To allow Indian airlines to fly to any point in the island

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nation.
India & South Africa To establish cooperation in Grassroots Innovation.
CERT-In & CERT-UK To exchange technical information on cyber
attacks,response to cyber security incidents and find
solutions to counter the cyber attacks.
India & US LEMOA(Logistics Exchange Memorandum
of Agreement) for the revival of defense sector
renovation
Rajasthan &ITEC Dubai For the promotion of Tourism Sector
Andhra Pradesh &Japans Agriculture Ministry To develop food chain value.
and Foresty and Fisheries Dept
Anna University & Fifth Generation Technologies To study about the remaining life of critical
equipment that are working in high temperature
environments
National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) & To establish STP in Mathura
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).
Gujurat& Indian Railways To Develop Surat Station
Chhattisgarh & Indian Railways To extend the State Railway Connectivity
Telangana&ISRO To monitor water resources
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) & For developing tools for strengthening cybersecurity and
IIT Kanpur advising the stock exchange on current and future cyber
related issues
BARC and SreeChitraTirunal Institute for Medical For joint development of Deep Brain Stimulator
Sciences & Technology
NITI Aayog& US EIA To set up portal on Energy Data
Ministry of Civil Aviation & Government of Regarding Regional Connectivity Scheme
Maharashtra and Airports
Authority of India
Maharashtra &Telegana For three inter-state Irrigation Projects in Godavari River
ISRO & Central Tool Room and Training Centre For technology transfer and a contract for supply of
(CTTC), Bhubaneswar spacecraft component
Union Labour Ministry &job portals Indeed, First To enhance the quality and reach of its employment
Job and HT Shine generation services.
Urban Development Ministry&Amar Chitra Katha To bring out a comic book on the Swachh Bharat Mission
Goa&Google To promote digital literacy, develop internet safety
education for students, and promote android development
GAIL&Bloom Energy For fuel cell power generation
BSNL & Microsoft India To provide telecom & IT solutions for big businesses
Bengal Chamber of Commerce For promoting renewable energy.
andIndustry (BCCI) &The Energy and Resources
Institute (TERI)

September
MoUs
Gujarat & Ministry of Civil Aviation
Chhattisgar & Ministry of Civil Aviation
Himachal Pradesh & Singapore
Telangana & Goa
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Purpose
To boost regional air connectivity
Airports will be developed in Bhavnagar, Porbandar,
Keshod, Kandla, Deesa, Amreli, Mahesana and Mandvi
Jagdalpur, Ambikapur, Raigarh and Bilaspur will get
connected to state Raipur through air services.
For developing a smart integrated township in Jathiadevi
near Shimla airport
To work together in IT development
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Telangana & ISRO to improve services of its educational channel Mana

TV.
Telangana & Cisco To create more employment opportunities.
Rajasthan & Cisco To promote digital learning across the state using virtual
digital room solutions
Chandigarh & France For Smart City Project and Technical Cooperation in
the field of Sustainable Urban Mobility
Haryan & Gionee mobile phones To set up its phone manufacturing hub in Haryana
Indian Oil & Praj Industries For setting up multiple second Generations (2G) bio-
ethanol plants
Indian Oil Corp & GAIL For taking equity stake in upcoming Dhamra LNG
terminal
Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) & To design vessels, especially suited to navigate the 1620
DST, Germany km stretch of NW-1
Andhra Bank & To provide health and general insurance services to its
Cigna TTK, Reliance General Insurance customers.
Burn Standard Company Limited & the state department for execution of the project to install the
transport monorail in West Bengal
India & Vietnam For signalling a strong upward push in their strategic ties
in the field of defence, IT, space, double taxation and
sharing white shipping information.
India & Nepal Three agreements including improvement of road
network to cement ties between the two neighbors
India & France 7.87 billion deal for Rafale fighter jets, equipped with
latest missiles and weapon system
India & AfDB ink For hosting banks annual meetings at Ahmedabad from
May 22 to May 26, 2017
India & Singapore To boost innovation, creativity and technological
advancement in both countries.
India & Korea For Mutual Recognition of Certificates for Seafarers,
1978
Indian & Australia To develop a variety of salt-tolerant rice
India & Sri Lanka To Support Fishermen And Farmers
India & Mauritius For collaboration in the area of defence and security
India & Chile To expand the India- Chile Preferential Trade
Agreement (PTA)
India & Greece For Air Services Agreement (ASA) under the open sky
policy
India & Samoa For exchange of information on Taxes
India & Afghanistan Ratification of an extradition treaty
India & Switzerland Identification and return of Swiss and Indian Nationals
and its implementation.
India & International Seabed Authority For exploration of Polymetallic Nodules upto 2022
India & Kenya Cooperation in the field of National Housing Policy
India & South Africa For promoting bilateral cooperation in the field of
Information and Communication Technologies.
India & Mozambique Cooperation in the field of Youth Affairs
Union Water Resources Ministry To encourage farmers of over 5,000 villages along
Agriculture & Ministry the Ganga to take up organic farming
US & Israel For Largest-Ever Military Aid
Afghanistan & Hard-Line Militant Group Hezb-e- To seek a peaceful resolution through political dialogue
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MoUs
Goods and Services Network (GSTN) &
Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT)
Oil India (OIL) & University of Houston (USA)
GOI & Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution
Co. Ltd. (MSEDCL)
Ministry of Civil Aviation &
Government of Puducherry
Arunachal Pradesh & National Institute of
Electronics and Information Technology
Arunachal Pradesh & AP Ruchi Soya Industries
Ministry of Railways & Government of Odisha
Economic Development Board of Andhra
Pradesh & Russias JSC United Shipping
Corporation
Punjab Agricultural
University (PAU) & FieldFresh Foods
Uber & Ministry of Electronics and ITs
CSCs(Common Services Centres
Railways & Urban Development Ministries
L&T & Maha Govt
Mizoram & Japanese International Cooperation
Agency (JICA)
PetroFed & TERI
India & EXIM Bank
India & India and African-Asian Rural
Development Organisation (AARDO)
India & European Union
India & Switzerland
India & Qatar
India & Hungary
India & the Russian Federation
India & Russia
India & Germany
India & Italy Joint Committee
Kigali Protocol
India & South Korea
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Purposes
For sharing of foreign exchange realisation data
To collaborate in the fields of Improved Oil Recovery &
Enhanced Oil Recovery for production enhancement from
matured fields, seismic interpretation & reservoir
characterisation studies
For Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY)
To Promote Regional Connectivity Scheme
For skill development of local people
For development of Oil Palm in the state
For cost sharing of two new railway line projects.
For setting up a ship-building unit in the state
To carry out a corn productivity research programme.
For skilling drivers on its platform
To redevelop stations under smart city plans
For Nagpur smart city project .
For sustainable Agriculture and Irrigation Development
in Mizoram
To undertake a study on Climate Change Risks
General Cooperation with New Development
Bank (NDB) through the BRICS Interbank Cooperation
Mechanism
For capacity building programmes in the rural
development sector.
In the field of water resources.
1.Mutual Visa Exemption Agreement for Holders of
Diplomatic Passports,
2.Technical Arrangements on Identification and Return of
Illegal Migrants and Arrangement for Dependent Person
of Diplomatic, Consular, Technical and
3.Administrative Staff of Diplomatic and Consular
Mission to Perform Gainful Employment
Cooperation in the field of Youth and Sports
Cooperation in the field of water management
On Expansion of Bilateral Trade and Economic
Cooperation.
To set up 25 integrated infrastructure centers for
irradiation treatment of perishable food items
To collaborate for Rs 1-lakh cr projects
Cooperation in the sectors of science, technology and
innovation.
To cut HFC greenhouse gases
Revised double tax avoidance agreement
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to promote and stimulate flow of investment, technology

and services
India and Bhutan Cooperation on trade, commerce and transit
India & Estonia On transfer of sentenced persons
Ratified a landmark trade deal seven years in the making,
Canada & EU
after it was nearly being protested by a small region of
Belgium
India & Russia For the proposal to double the range of the BrahMos
For setting up of Palestine-India Techno Park in
India & Palestine
Ramallah

November
MoUs Purposes
South Korea & Japan Controversial intelligence deal
20 Countries signed at the 22nd Conference of the Parties
Framework agreement of International Solar
(COP 22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Alliance (ISA)
Change (UNFCCC), at Marrakech, in Morocco.
Colombia Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Modified Peace Agreement
Colombia(FARC)
For the implementation of Automatic Exchange of
India & Switzerland
Information (AEOI)
To extend Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project
India & Switzerland
(BEEP) by five years
India & Venezuela To increase oil production worth $1.45 billion
India & Sweden To enhance collaboration in energy sector
Co-operationon in intellectual property rights (IPR)
India & Britain
and ease of doing business
Cooperation in the field of Nuclear Energy, on the
Manufacturing Skill Transfer Promotion Program, Outer
India & Japan Space, Marine and Earth Science and
Technology,Agriculture and Food Related Industry,
Textiles, and Sports
India & Israel To Intensify Defence, Anti-Terror Cooperation
India, Bhutan Bilateral trade agreement on Trade, Commerce and Transit
Co-operation in intellectual property (IP) and also for
India & UK bilateral cooperation on raising ease of doing business.

3 Bilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) to have

India & UK
India & Cyprus
India, Sri Lanka
India & Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Indian Army and Corporation Bank
LinkedIn & Ministry of Human Resource
Development
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a smooth taxation system between the two and reduce
differences arising between the two due to transfer pricing
issues.
Evasion (DTAA) with respect to taxes on income, along
with its protocol
To form Joint Working Group on Fisheries to address
fishermen issue
$ 48 million loan to improve Assams power distribution
Co-operation in Defence Salary Package
To create more job opportunities in India.
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Maharashtra& Canada
NSDA & British Council
Google & Archaelogical Survey of India (ASI)
Assam & Civil Aviation Ministry
BSE Institute Ltd (BIL)
Telangana Academy for Skill and
Knowledge (TASK)
Airbnb & Self-Employed Womens Association
of India (SEWA)
Odisha & Software Technology Parks of India
(STPI)
Ministry of HUPA & Common Services Centre
e-Governance Services India Limited
DRDO & IIT Delhi
Indian Railway & Assam
Telangana & Microsoft
Asian Development Bank (ADB) and
the Government of India(GoI)
Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship and Ministry of Petroleum and
Natural Gas
NIT Agartala & ONGC, NEEPCO, iBuild
Arunachal Pradesh & Thailand
Coal India Ltd & SBI Capital Markets
December
MoUs
India & Qatar
IOCL, BPCL and HPCL
India & Vietnam
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Collaboration to develop Urban Infra, Smart Cities
To Collaborate for Joint Research in Skills Sector
For 360 degree virtual tour of 280-odd monuments across
the country.
For Regional Connectivity Scheme
For setting financial education center in Telangana
To promote tourism in rural areas
To Set Up 4 More STPI Centres at Angul, Jajpur, Jeypore
in Koraput and Sambalpur
For enabling online submission of applications under
PMAY
To establish a Joint Advanced Technology Centre
(JATC).
For joint venture project worth 5000 crore
To explore cloud, machine learning and mobile-based
solutions in the state.
$500 million loan to build Indias longest river bridge
To boost to skill initiatives in the Hydrocarbon Sector
To facilitate a better atmosphere for research and
development
To promote cooperation and collaboration.
To increase their market share in the rapidly growing
consultancy area
Purposes
Co-operation in the field of
visas, cyberspace and investments and to Train Qatars
Police for FIFA World Cup 2022
To build Indias biggest oil refinery and mega
petrochemical complex at a cost of $30 billion on the west
coast of India in the State of Maharashtra.
Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (N-Pact) and
agreement for
1.Enhance aviation links,
2.Jointly work in the area of energy efficiency
3.Promotion of parliamentary cooperation.
4. To train the southeast nations Sukhoi-30 fighter pilots.
5. Cooperation in the field of IT
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Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) & Cooperation in the area of zoonoses, anti-microbial
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) resistance, nutrition and pesticide residues.

India & Afghanistan Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

India & UK To support Ease of Doing Business in India
TeamIndus & Indian Space Research
For mission to land a spacecraft on the moon.
Organisation (ISRO)
To buy 145 M-777 Ultra-Light Howitzers worth $750
India & United States
million (Rs 5,000 crore)
For Youth Affairs and Sports Cooperation.
India & Indonesia For on Standardization Cooperation.
Joint Communiqu on on Ilegal and Unauthorised Fishing.
NALCO & NTPC To set Power Plant in Odisha
ISRO & USGS(United States Geological For cooperation in the exchange and use of U.S. Land
Survey) Remote Sensing Satellite Data.
India & Kyrgyzstan To Strengthen cooperation in Tourism
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
To work together to develop a mutually beneficial
(ICAI) & College of Banking and Financial
relationship
Studies (CBFS), Oman
India & Nigeria The revised Air Services Agreement (ASA)
European Union & Mali To enable the return of strucked Malian migrants
To normalize relations, change interaction on human rights
European Union (EU) & Cuba issues and increase already existing business ties between
Europe and Cuba.
Cuba & Google For faster internet access
Cooperation in the exchange of financial
intelligence related to money laundering, related crimes
and financing of terrorism.
India & Tajikistan Amending avoidance of double taxation and prevention of
fiscal evasion.
Cooperation on broadcasting in exchange of audio-visual
programmes.
To allows unlimited number of flights to six metro airports
India with Jamaica, Guyana, Czech Republic,
namely Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru
Finland, Spain and Sri Lanka
and Chennai.
Iran & Airbus To acquire 100 jetliners
GOI & Maharashtra For new railway projects worth Rs 45,000 crore in
Maharashtra
UK & Argentina To identify 123 Argentine soldiers buried on the Falkland
Islands
Cooperation in the field of Tourism
Cooperation in the field of Youth exchange
Cooperation in the field of Youth development
Cooperation between the Foreign Service Institute and the
India and Kyrgyzstan Diplomatic Academy of the Kyrgyz Republic for exchange
of information on training programmes of diplomats.
Cooperation in the field of Agriculture and Food Industry
Cooperation in the field of Broadcasting and exchange of
audiovisual programmes.
India & Bhutan For bilateral technical cooperation in infrastructure
Haryana & Andhra Pradesh To assist the state in compiling a centralised databaseof its
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population to ensure efficient and effective implementation

of welfare programmes.
Indian Army & IIT Gandhinagar To set up a research and development (R&D) cell at the IIT
campus
Third Protocol on December 30, 2016, for amending
India & Singapore
the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA)
to provide dairy loans to farmers through the lenders
Bank of Baroda & Heritage Foods Ltd (HFL)
branches across the country
To set up $950 million liquefied natural gas import project
Petronet & Petrobangla
of 7.5 million tonnes a year in Bangladesh
India & Nepal To give additional 240 MW electricity to Nepal

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