India welcomes ceasefire between Afghan government and Taliban
New Delhi: India on Sunday welcomed the ceasefire between the Afghan government and the Taliban over three days covering the festival of Eid.“We hope that this ceasefire would extend fu…
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COVID-19: PM Modi talks to Sri Lankan President and Mauritius counterpart
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth and discussed about global pandemic coronavir…
India builds military war game centre for Ugandan defence forces in Jinja
Jinja (Uganda): Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Sunday inaugurated a military war game centre in Jinja district, which was built with the help of the Indian community in Uga…
Desert Locust control: India is yet to hear from Pakistan
New Delhi: Taking a lead in developing regional cooperation to control Desert Locust, India has sent a proposal to Pakistan for a coordinated response along with Iran but it is yet to h…
Chinese side hindering India’s normal patrolling patterns: MEA
New Delhi: Amid simmering border tension between them, India on Thursday rejected Chinese claim that Indian troops had undertaken activity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in east…
Won’t accept artificial enlargement of territorial claims: India to Nepal
New Delhi: India on Wednesday sharply reacted to Nepal government’s move of issuing artificially enlarged map.India dismissed Nepal government’s claims, saying New Delhi won’t accept th…
The Intra-Afghan Peace and an India Pakistan cold war
New Delhi: When the US-Taliban peace accord was signed, everyone had hoped for a better future for the war-torn country that had been battered by war for 19 years now. With the withdraw…
India provides US$ 2 million to UNRWA for welfare of Palestine refugees
New Delhi: India on Monday contributed US$ 2 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in support of the Agency’s core progra…
India welcomes power sharing deal between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, rival Abdullah
New Delhi: Welcoming the political agreement between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah on power-sharing and creation of the High Council of National Reconcil…
Vande Bharat Mission: 169 Indians to be brought from Dhaka to Kolkata
New Delhi: As part of the government’s Vande Bharat Mission initiative, a total of 169 Indian nationals will be repatriated from Dhaka to Kolkata on Monday on a special Air India flight…
COVID-19: India hands over RT-PCR test kits to Nepal
Kathmandu: India on Sunday handed over Pathodetect COVID-19 real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR test kits, which would enable Nepali Health Professionals…
Indo-Pacific partners underline need for new template of globalization
New Delhi: In the backdrop of coronavirus pandemic across the globe, select countries of the Indo-Pacific on Thursday underlined the need for a new template of globalization and for int…