New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- India and Qatar on Tuesday signed an agreement to formally elevate their relations to a Strategic Partnership and exchanged multiple Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with focus on trade, energy, investments, innovation, technology, food security, culture & people-to-people ties.

The Agreement on Establishment of Strategic Partnership between the two countries was exchanged in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar, at the Hyderabad House here in the national capital.

Prime Minister Modi and the Amir of Qatar held delegation-level talks and both countries also signed an agreement on the Revised agreement for the avoidance of double taxation and ...