New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said the government has recognized the role and importance of private sector in the development of the country.“Since 2014, when the NDA came into power, the government has encouraged the priv...
BSF troops patrol along the India-Pakistan border in Akhnoor, Jammu. (File photo)The recent detection of tunnel in Samba area of India-Pakistan border has generated a lot of brouhaha, and allegations of laxity and/or incompetence on part of Border Se...
New Delhi: Categorically rejecting the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) resolution adopted against it, India on Sunday asked them to refrain from making such references in future.In a statement, the ministry of external affairs said, &l...
New Delhi: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu will Chair the 19th meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government to be hosted by India in virtual format on November 30.It will be the first time that a Summit-level Me...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his UK counterpart Boris Johnson on Friday reviewed the promising cooperation between the two countries in the area of vaccine development and manufacturing.They also exchanged thoughts about the chal...
Kathmandu: Stating that India and Nepal are symbolically linked, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday said that the two neighbouring countries “need” each other.Speaking at a public lecture in Kathmandu on Friday, he s...
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday briefed a select group of Heads of Missions about how the terrorists belonged to Pakistan based Jaish-e- Muhammed got into India.The diplomats were informed about the discovery of a ...
New Delhi: Aiming at enhancing mutual understanding among themselves, India and European Union on Monday held their sixth round of consultations on disarmament and non-proliferation matters in a virtual format.The consultations between them involved ...
As an otherwise dull and drab November rolls on in 2020 and the memories of India’s latest victim of anti-personnel mine, SFF Commando Nyima Tenzin, fades away, let us take our readers back to another November, 49 years ago – and another ...
New Delhi: In order to adopt low-carbon and climate-resilient development practices, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that India is taking a big step ahead to achieve 450 Giga Watts of renewable energy by 2030.Speaking on the occasion of v...