Bangkok: The US and China have signed an agreement on trade, President Donald Trump said, adding he expects to soon have a deal with India. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Bloomberg TV that the deal was signed earlier this week. Neither Lutnick nor Trump provided...
New Delhi: Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Friday said India wanted a reference to terrorism in the outcome document of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) defence ministers' meeting, but it was not acceptable to one member country, an oblique reference to Pakistan. Jaishankar said...
Tel Aviv: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Friday announced that its 12-day military operation against Iran resulted in significant damage to three of the country’s main nuclear facilities, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, dealing a major blow to the Iranian regime’s nuclear infrastructure. The IDF asserted...
Washington: US President Donald Trump said a "very big" trade deal is on cards with India, hinting at significant progress in the negotiation process of a long-awaited bilateral trade agreement between the two countries. “We are having some great deals. We have one coming up,...
Dhaka: Bangladesh interim government of Muhammad Yunus Thursday dismissed the idea of any emerging alliance between Dhaka, Beijing and Islamabad, saying the recent meeting between the three countries was not “political”. “We are not forming any alliance,” foreign affairs adviser M Touhid Hossain told reporters...
New Delhi: India Thursday strongly condemned the demolition of the Durga Mandir (temple) in Dhaka, criticising the role of Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in allowing the destruction and projecting it as a case of illegal land use. "We understand that extremists were clamouring for the...
New Delhi: In a giant leap for India, IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla Thursday scripted history by becoming the first from the country to enter the International Space Station (ISS). After a long and ardent wait of 41 years, India now has an astronaut in...
Dubai: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made his first public statement Thursday after the end of the Israel-Iran war. Khamenei took shelter in a secret location during the 12-day war as Israeli forces pounded Tehran before the US intervened on its behalf. AP
Dehradun: Relief and rescue efforts are underway in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district with the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and state police rescue teams working assiduously to lift the victims from the accident zone. Till the last reports came in, two people have died in the...
New Delhi: Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke has urged the Canadian Federal government to declare the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, and any other groups involved in extortion and violence targeting Canadians of South Asian descent, as terrorist organisations under Canadian law. According to the Canadian media, Mayor...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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