New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will be travelling to Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conclave. India announced on Friday that Jaishankar would lead the delegation from the country. Pakistan is hosting the SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting on October 15 and 16. Jaishankar is the first Indian […]
NEW DELHI: India has consistently advocated for a peaceful resolution to disputes and has sought to promote cooperation among nations in the Indo-Pacific, with a strong emphasis on the centrality of ASEAN, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday. His remarks come amid China’s increasing military muscle-flexing in the region. In his address at the […]
New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Friday said the current geopolitical environment is in a “flux” and every nation is hedging a bet due to “this uncertain kind of a future”. His remarks at an event hosted by the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM) here come in the backdrop of […]
New Delhi: The Israeli government has taken down a map that wrongly depicted a part of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan on the country’s official website following massive outrage on social media. Reuven Azar, Israel’s ambassador to India, addressed the issue, saying that the map was taken down and it was the website’s editor’s mistake. […]
BEIRUT: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Hezbollah leader Syyed Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in an Israeli strike and is now deeply worried about Israeli infiltration of senior government ranks in Tehran, three Iranian sources said. In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Hezbollah’s booby-trapped pagers on […]
LONDON: The UK on Friday said it is boosting its humanitarian support for Lebanon with a further GBP 10 million of “lifesaving aid” to respond to the mass displacement of people and a growing number of civilian casualties amid the ongoing conflict in the region. The funding comes as the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office […]
STAVANGER (NORWAY): Wars, a refugee crisis, famine and artificial intelligence could all be recognised when Nobel Prize announcements begin next week under a shroud of violence. The prize week coincides with the Oct 7 anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, which began a year of bloodshed and war across the Middle East. The literature […]
COLOMBO: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Colombo on Friday and discussed ways in which the two countries could deepen cooperation and strengthen bilateral ties to benefit the people of their two countries. During the meeting, Dr Jaishankar conveyed warm greetings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and […]
NEW DELHI: Kangana Ranaut appears to have obliquely questioned Mahatma Gandhi’s appellation as “Father of the Nation”, her latest impetus to political controversy coming on the leader’s birth anniversary and attracting criticism from the Congress. “Desh ke pita nahi, desh ke toh lal hote hai (A country does not have fathers; it has sons),” the […]
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu on Friday said that spirituality can bring desired positive social changes by way of bringing balance and inner peace and empowering real societal issues. Speaking at Global Summit on ‘Spirituality for Clean and Healthy Society’, being organised by the Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya here, she said that in […]