International

Helsinki: India and Finland agreed to strengthen bilateral ties across multiple sectors, including trade, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, and clean technologies, during their 13th Foreign Office Consultations in Helsinki Thursday. Sharing details regarding the meeting, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal in a post on...

Islamabad: Pakistan's Foreign Office rejected as "unfounded and misleading" the allegations that some Hindu pilgrims were denied entry into the country while travelling with a Sikh group Thursday. A group of nearly 1,900 Sikh pilgrims crossed over to Pakistan through the Attari-Wagah border for Guru...

Lahore: A Pakistani minister and close aide to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif  Thursday visited the office of the Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), a political face of Hafiz Saeed's banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah, in Punjab and met its leaders. Minister of State for Interior Senator Talal Chaudhry...

Bangkok: The Indian Embassy in Bangkok announced Thursday that 270 Indian nationals, including 26 women, were repatriated from Thailand's Mae Sot city to India through a coordinated effort involving two special Indian Air Force flights. The Embassy of India in Bangkok and the Consulate of India...

Rotorua (New Zealand): Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Thursday said talks are progressing fast between India and New Zealand and expressed hope that the free trade agreement will be finalised soon. Goyal is here on a four-day official visit to review progress of the...

Washington: India's Ambassador to the United States, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, discussed bilateral trade and the signing of a 10-year defence framework agreement between the two countries in a meeting with Senator Steve Daines. “It was an honour to meet Senator @SteveDaines, esteemed member of the...

Islamabad: Anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi Thursday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan's sister Aleema Khan for the eighth consecutive time due to her repeated failure to appear before the court, local media reported. The case being heard in...

New York: Known to make inconsistent comments, US President Donald Trump now claims that eight planes were shot down during the war between India and Pakistan in May, once again without specifying who they belonged to. Addressing the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, Wednesday,...

Los Angeles: Meghan Markle is returning to acting in the upcoming Jason Orley film Close Personal Friends, which stars Lily Collins, Jack Quaid, Brie Larson and Henry Golding. As per the entertainment news outlet Variety, Markle will appear in a cameo in the comedy that...

Louisville (US): A UPS cargo plane's left wing caught fire and an engine fell off just before it crashed and exploded after takeoff in Kentucky, a federal official has said, offering the first investigative details about a disaster that killed at least 12 people, including...