International

Bogota/Copenhagen/Addis Ababa: As all-party parliamentary delegations continued global outreach on Saturday, meeting multiple stakeholders in various countries, Colombia withdrew a statement offering condolences to Pakistan for the loss of lives following India's Operation Sindoor. Ethiopia conveyed a strong commitment to working with India in countering...

New Delhi: India has said that Pakistan should stop blaming it for the breach of the Indus Water Treaty, as the unrelenting cross-border terrorism from its soil is interfering with the treaty's implementation. Addressing the plenary session of the first UN conference on glaciers in...

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that he planned to double tariffs on foreign imports of steel to 50 percent starting next week, further casting a cloud on steelmakers around the globe. "We are going to be imposing a 25 per cent increase. We're...

New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump has said the “deal” he is most proud of is that he was able to stop “potentially a nuclear war” between India and Pakistan through trade as opposed to through “bullets”. In the last few weeks, Trump has also...

Jakarta: BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi, a member of the All-Party Parliamentary delegation part of Operation Sindoor outreach, Saturday inaugurated the 'Biju Hall' of the Indian Embassy in Jakarta, and unveiled a commemorative plaque of late Odia leader Biju Patnaik, who played a key role during...

Bogota: Colombia’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has said that her country was withdrawing its inadvertent statement expressing condolences over the deaths in Pakistan from 'Operation Sindoor', according to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who is leading a Parliamentary delegation. “The vice minister...

Washington: The Supreme Court Friday again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million. The justices lifted a...

Colombo: China wants to enhance its economic collaboration with Sri Lanka, a top Chinese minister has said, noting the current political and economic stability in the island nation. During a meeting with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Thursday, Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao also reiterated...

Islamabad: Pakistan Friday announced to upgrade its diplomatic ties with Afghanistan and appoint an ambassador to the country, a major indicator of improvement in ties between the two neighbours. Pakistan had tacitly applauded the capture of Kabul by Taliban in 2021 with the hope that...

Kyiv: Ukraine is ready to resume direct peace talks with Russia in Istanbul Monday, a top adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, following days of uncertainty over whether Kyiv would attend a further meeting proposed by Moscow. But Ukrainian officials have insisted that the Kremlin...