Beijing, Aug 31 (IANS) Canada has decided to apply for membership of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Finance Minister Bill Morneau said on Wednesday. If Canada joins the AIIB, it will be the first…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) India and the US on Wednesday called upon Pakistan to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and the 2016 Pathankot airbase attack to justice. In a joint…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry here on Wednesday sent out a strong message to China over its dispute with the Philippines on the contentious South China sea and warned…
Ankara, Aug 31 (IANS) A Turkish judge has escaped to Greece on a migrant boat and sought political asylum, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The 50-year-old judge on Tuesday embarked on a boat carrying six Syrian…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Did you come in boats? This was the question US Secretary of State John Kerry raised at the IIT-Delhi on Wednesday. “I don’t know if you came in boats or…
New York, Aug 31 (IANS) Indian American Ajei Gopal has been named CEO of US-based software firm ANSYS that produces engineering simulation software used for testing product designs across a wide spectrum of industries, including…
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) Ahead of the US-India-Afghanistan trilateral talks scheduled at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in September, Washington said it wanted New Delhi to continue its constructive role in Afghanistan….
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) China’s dissidents have urged US President Barack Obama to confront his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping over the latter’s worst human rights crisis since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, during his visit to…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to holy places here has been postponed due to heavy rains, according to officials. Kerry was scheduled to visit Sisganj Gurudwara, Jama Masjid…
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) The White House has termed the European Commission’s order for tech giant Apple to pay 13 billion euros in taxes to Ireland as unfair. According to White House Press Secretary Josh…
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) With New Delhi signing a historic defence logistics agreement with Washington, the US has described India’s presence in the Asia-Pacific region as “important” in the backdrop of China’s disputes in the…
Mexican city, Aug 31 (IANS) Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will travel to Mexico city on Wednesday and meet President Enrique Pena Nieto, just hours before his speech in Arizona to clarify views on immigration…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) India and the US on Tuesday reasserted the urgent necessity for Pakistan to dismantle safe havens for terrorist groups and criminal networks and said there can be no difference between…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday criticised the India-US military logistics agreement, terming it a “fundamental departure from Indias time-tested policy of strategic military neutrality”. The Congress also demanded that the contents…
London, Aug 30 (IANS) The United Nations is under increasing pressure to set up an independent inquiry into its Syria aid programme after a Guardian newspaper investigation found “contracts worth tens of millions of dollars…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) India and the US on Tuesday agreed to add partnership in the travel and tourism sector to the existing work streams under the bilateral Strategic and Commercial Dialogue, Indian Commerce…
Bishkek/Beijing, Aug 30 (IANS) An unidentified assailant on Tuesday rammed a Mitsubishi car into the gates of the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyzstan capital, causing an explosion that killed him and injured five others. China…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said India-US trade will get a boost from business-to-business, business-to-government and government-to-government interactions, in a context where new structural reforms like GST will boost…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday said the US continues to support all efforts to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai and Pathankot terror attacks to justice, and…
Paris, Aug 30 (IANS) French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday said negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), between the European Union and the United States cannot yield an agreement by the end…