Greece

India and Greece have now become “strategic partners,” announced Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Greece H.E. Kyriakos Mitsotakis. But what are the reasons for the friendship and strategic synergy between India and Greece? According...

Researchers have determined that skeletons found at India's Roopkund Lake belonged to Greeks who visited the site in the 1800s.

On a recent visit to India, Lt Gen Themistoklis Bourolias, Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff (Greece) paid homage to Indian fallen soldiers at the National War Memorial. He also met with India's military top brass and discussed...

India has a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Eastern Orthodox faith stems from the Apostolic Church, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India. Orthodox Christians have confronted certain challenges from the Latin West. As per the book...

The Indian variant of the coronavirus, or B.1.617, has arrived in Greece, as two cases of the mutation were confirmed in the country.

Greece's Foreign Minister and his Indian counterpart discussed ways to strengthen diplomatic and military relations between the two countries in a video conference on Thursday. Nikos Dendias briefed Indian FM Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Greece's commitment to resolving tensions in the...

Five tons of the malaria-fighting medication called chloroquine was sent recently from India to Greece, after the Greek government managed to secure this enormous quantity of the drug to equip its National Health Service. The use of chloroquine has been...

With just $200 in his pocket and his father’s blessing, Gulzar Singh traveled almost 5,800 miles from his native land of India to Greece to find a better life thirty one years ago. And by any measure, he most certainly...

An Indian student who fell in love with Thessaloniki is publishing an online English-language magazine to promote its beauty and vibrancy in India and the rest of the world. 26-year-old Kushal S. Mehta of the International University of Greece, who...

The Mayor of Lasithi Plateau Yiannis Stefanakis has petitioned Greece's Ministry of Culture and Sports to include the windmills of Lasithi to the National Catalog of Intangible Cultural Heritage, according to the Athens News Agency (ANA). According to the mayor,...

President of India Ram Nath Kovind while visiting Greece earlier in the week praised the contribution of Alexander the Great to the history of his nation. "The most famous Greek to come to India was of course Alexander the Great....

Greek Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura returned from Mumbai optimistic for a large number of tourists from India visiting Greece in the summer of 2018, according to the Athens Macedonia News Agency (AMNA). The Hellenic Tourism Organization (EOT) participated; for the...

Greece and India agreed to deepen bilateral cooperation in a range of key areas including trade, investment and energy, and inked a pact for launching the first direct flight service between the two countries. Greek Foreign minister Nikos Kotzias and...

The number of Indian tourists visiting Greece rose over 100 pct in 2017 compared to the previous year, Pranav Kapadia, founder and director of Mumbai-based Global Destinations said. In an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, he estimated that the...

It's not the first time that Deputy Education Minister Kostas Zouraris has made controversial comments about the state of the country. The academic and Independent Greeks (ANEL) MP admitted the country's dire straits, in an edgy interview. Talking to SKAI...