International

New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Friday said a proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Oman will be finalised soon, and Qatar also wants to negotiate a pact with India. He said that India has already signed such acts with a number of...

Tokyo: India and Japan will together shape the Asian century for stability, growth and prosperity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday as he began a two-day crucial visit to the east Asian nation. In an address at a business forum, Modi said Japan's excellence and...

New York/Washington: A day after claiming that the Ukraine conflict was “Modi's war”, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has accused India of being an “oil money laundromat for the Kremlin”. The top Trump administration official also described as "strategic freeloading" New Delhi continuing to...

Dubai: France, Germany and the United Kingdom started a process Thursday to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, further isolating Tehran after its 12-day war with Israel saw its atomic sites repeatedly bombed. The mechanism, termed “snapback” by the diplomats who...

Moscow: India has invited Russian companies to invest in innovative space ventures in the country and tap its vast market, Ambassador Vinay Kumar has said. The Government of India has offered lucrative schemes to create a conducive atmosphere in the space industry, Kumar said while...

Tokyo: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi readies for his first visit to Japan, after the imposition of a steep 50 per cent tariff by the United States, India’s Ambassador to Japan Sibi George, Thursday said that the two nations will be discussing a broad range...

Kyiv: A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital early Thursday killed at least three people and injured 24, local authorities said. Among the dead was a 14-year-old girl, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv's city administration, citing preliminary information. The numbers...

New York/Washington: The Ukraine conflict is “Modi's war”, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has alleged, saying the “road to peace” runs partly “right through New Delhi”. Navarro, President Donald Trump's Senior Counsellor for Trade and Manufacturing, in an interview to Bloomberg Wednesday claimed that...

New York/Washington: The Trump administration is planning to change the H1B programme, the most sought-after non-immigrant visa among Indian IT professionals, and also bring changes to the Green Card process, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has said. “I'm involved in changing the H1B programme....

Washington: Former US Charge d'Affaires to India, Donald Heflin, has warned that Washington's unpredictable diplomatic approach is complicating trade negotiations with New Delhi. Speaking exclusively to IANS, Heflin, who is now a Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, argued that the traditional...