Australian PM calls on Hamid Ansari

New Delhi April 10 (IANS) Visiting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called on Vice President Hamid Ansari at the latter s residence here on Monday.

PM @TurnbullMalcolm held talks with Vice President Hamid Ansari in New Delhi External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay tweeted.

India and Australia signed six memorandums of understanding (MoUs) following delegation-level bilateral talks headed by Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Turnbull.

Modi and Turbull also jointly inaugurated through video-conferencing the TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre in Gurugram Haryana set up by India s TERI and Australia s Deakin University.

Earlier on Monday Turnbull was accorded a ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Thereafter External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called on him.

In the afternoon Modi and Turnbull travelled by a Delhi Metro train to visit the Akshardham temple in east Delhi.

The Australian Prime Minister arrived here on Sunday on a four-day state visit to India.

This is Turnbull s first bilateral visit to India since he assumed office in September 2015.

His predecessor Tony Abbott had visited India in September 2014 and this was followed by Prime Minister Modi s visit to Australia in November that year.

--IANS
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