Current affairs

Finnair, the fastest Airline to Northern Europe has started new route between Helsinki and Delhi with three flights a week with Finnair’s Boeing MD-11 fleet. Thanks to Helsinki’s optimal geographical position, the flight time from Helsinki to Delhi is only 6 hours and 30 minutes.

For the first time ever, more than 100 European higher education institutions from more than 20 European countries gathered in New Delhi for the European Higher Education Fair on 24–26 November. The European Union had taken this initiative to provide an opportunity for the Indian students to get a close and direct insight into the diversity of European higher education, research, the high quality of education, and Europe in general.

Finland and India have many unused opportunities for cooperation, said Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja and India´s Deputy Foreign Minister Anand Sharma at their meeting on October 13 after the EU-India summit meeting held in Helsinki. Matters brought up in the discussions included bilateral agreements, and new forms of cooperation such as exchanges of experts and investments.