Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba reached New Delhi on Thursday after completing her pilgrimage to the Baidyanath shrine, also known as Baba Baidyanath Dham in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

She was received and welcomed by Additional Secretary at Ministry of External Affairs, India Munu Mahawar, and Nepali ambassador to India, Shankar Sharma, among others at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, according to the Nepali Embassy in New Delhi. Mahawar is in-charge of Nepal-Bhutan desk at the Ministry of External Affairs.

Minister Rana will participate in the inaugural session of the Raisina Dialogue on March 17 which is going to be organised by Observer Research Foundation with support from India’s Ministry of External Affairs. The event, regarded as India’s premier conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, will conclude on March 19. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the conference, which focusses on addressing the most challenging issues facing the world.

On March 18, Foreign Minister Deuba will be a panelist at “Climate Cataclysm: The Adoption Agenda is Gasping” and will be the speaker at “What Does the South Want” at Raisina Ideas Pod”, according to the Nepali Embassy in New Delhi.

On the same evening, she will attend a closed-door dinner session on the theme of “Policy and Palate.”

During the Raisina Dialogue, Foreign Minister Deuba will hold bilateral talks with her Indian counterpart, S Jaishankar and other foreign ministers attending the event, the Nepali embassy said in a statement.

Last year, Foreign Minister Deuba met Jaishankar in August in New Delhi. A month later, in September, they also held talks in New York on the margins of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Earlier this year, Deuba and Jaishankar met in Muscat, Oman, on February 16. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 8th Indian Ocean Conference.

During the meeting, they reviewed high-level exchanges and progress in areas such as trade, transit, and hydropower cooperation. Trade, transit, electricity trade between Nepal, India and Bangladesh, operationalising additional port facilities for Nepal, the Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project, and progress made on the Upper Arun Hydropower Project, strengthening regional cooperation among others, was also discussed on the occasion.

On March 20, she will be speaking as a guest speaker at a digital public infrastructure conclave organised by the Raisina Dialogue, the Nepali embassy in New Delhi said.