India, Feb. 14 -- India and Albania, two countries in Asia and Europe that witnessed resilient growth in tourism sector in the post-Covid world, are planning to forge new bilateral and multilateral ties, starting with opening each other's embassies and a common cultural organisation to commemorate humanitarian legacy of Nobel laureate Mother Teresa and a host of other trade ventures.

Mother Teresa, born an Albanian, spent her life in India and established The Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, in Kolkata in 1950. She died in 1997, but her organisation continues to remain active even today. Albania has a national holiday dedicated to her and celebrates it as the Day of Saint and even the...