Tehran, Feb 7 (IANS) Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the Iranian nuclear agreement is an international deal and its renegotiation was not acceptable, local media reported on Tuesday. “I believe (US President Donald)…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre said on Tuesday that there have been no incursions along the Sino-Indian border. “There have been no instances of incursions along our border…
Riyadh, Feb 7 (IANS) More than 39,000 Pakistanis have been deported from Saudi Arabia in the past four months, the media reported on Tuesday. Quoting security sources, the Saudi Gazette newspaper said the deportations were…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) The EU-led Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, with over 7,000 member cities from all over the world, will be expanding to India starting from 2017, a statement said….
Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) India cooperated with multilateral efforts to use UN-mandated sanctions to achieve a nuclear agreement with Iran, a US Congress think tank said in a report. The independent Congressional Research Service (CRS)…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) A two-day Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) workshop on conservation of monuments and artefacts concluded here on Tuesday, an official release said. It was organised by the Ministry of External Affairs in…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its “strongest displeasure” over the manner in which fencing along the India-Bangladesh border is progressing and told the Union Home Ministry to furnish all…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) With the US moving the UN to put Pathankot attack mastermind and chief of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohamed, Masood Azhar, on the list of international terrorists, India has again…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) India has offered member states of the Bimstec regional grouping important initiatives in a number of key sectors, including counter-terrorism efforts and boosting regional transportation, the External Affairs Ministry said…
Beijing, Feb 7 (IANS) By meddling in the disputed islands in the East China Sea, US would only provoke Beijing and risk turning the issue into a powder keg, a commentary on the state-controlled Xinhua…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) More Indian visitors are expected in this year’s edition of Taiwan’s leading information and communication technology (ICT) show, Computex, one of its organisers said here on Tuesday. “For now, we’re…
Colombo, Feb 7 (IANS) Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi on Tuesday called on members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) to unite in order to eliminate regional terrorism. President Maithripala Sirisena…
Tehran, Feb 7 (IANS) Iran?s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday he was grateful to US President Donald Trump for revealing “the real face of America”. “We are thankful to this gentleman… he…
United Nations, Feb 7 (IANS) Targetting India, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi on Tuesday rejected the attempts of countries to seek permanent UN Security Council membership, saying it was “inconceivable” that any institution…
Beijing, Feb 7 (IANS) India is interfering in Sri Lanka’s affairs to stop China’s growing presence in the island nation, Chinese experts feel, according to the Chinese daily. It was quite apparent that “Sri Lanka’s…
Beijing, Feb 7 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday told his Sri Lankan counterpart Maithripala Sirisena that he was “willing to work to consolidate political trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation and deepen people-to-people friendship”….
London, Feb 7 (IANS) House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has got embroiled in a controversy after insisting US President Donald Trump should not be allowed to address the lower house of parliament during his…
Seoul, Feb 7 (IANS) Top South Korean and US officials held telephone talks on Tuesday to discuss stronger bilateral alliance and North Korea’s nuclear programme, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said. South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se…
Riyadh, Feb 7 (IANS) Saudi Arabian nationals under the age of 40 will not be permitted to travel alone to Iraq, the media reported on Tuesday. But they will be allowed to travel with elder…
Vilnius (Lithuania), Feb 7 (IANS) Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite has proposed that the country’s parliament urgently ratify the defence cooperation agreement with the US, the president’s office said. Recently, Lithuanian and the US signed agreement…