New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) India on Thursday strongly denied allegations in the media that a research centre in Dehradun may have violated UN sanctions by training North Korean experts who went on to occupy…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) India on Thursday strongly denied allegations in the media that a research centre in Dehradun may have violated UN sanctions by training North Korean experts who went on to occupy…
Tashkent, June 23 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the Uzbekistan capital on Thursday to attend the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, that will kick off the process for India’s absorption as a…
London, June 23 (IANS) “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union – or leave the European Union”? This is the verbatim text of a question for which voting in Britain started…
Beijing/New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Even as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley arrived in Beijing on Thursday on a five-day official visit, an important financial dialogue between India and China was pushed back to July, as…
Mumbai, June 23 (IANS) Four Ghana sailors who were stranded on a grounded cargo ship barely two nautical miles off Mumbai for a whopping 66 months have been finally rescued and have flown home. The…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday extended his greetings and felicitations to the Grand Duke and people of Luxembourg on the occasion of their National Day, observed on June 23. In…
Tashkent, June 23 (IANS) Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain said on Thursday that his country firmly supported China’s position on the South China Sea as well as Taiwan and Tibet. Hussain made the remarks while meeting…
Moscow, June 23 (IANS) Russia and China are “close allies” with their ties running at a very high level and bilateral cooperation expanding steadily, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “We see each other…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, June 23 (IANS) An India-China dialogue on economy and finance scheduled for June 27 has been “cancelled”, an official source told IANS. “The meet stands cancelled,” the source told IANS. The…
Bangkok, June 23 (IANS) A planned visit by Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to a Myanmar refugee camp in western Thailand, earlier scheduled for Saturday, has been cancelled, said a Thai government official…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that India is glad to be a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and it looks forward to fruitful outcomes particularly in…
Caracas, June 23 (IANS) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has put aside criticisms and announced a second attempt to re-establish diplomatic relations with the US, officials said. The two nations have been without ambassadors in their…
Tashkent, June 23 (IANS) Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Uzbek counterpart, Islam Karimov, hailed the inauguration of the Qamchiq Tunnel in Uzbekistan, the longest in Central Asia. The two leaders on Wednesday watched…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Industry body FICCI on Wednesday said it is organising the 10th edition of Global Business Forum in Madrid, Spain, on June 24 to commemorate 60 years of diplomatic relations between…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves for Tashkent on Thursday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit with India set to become a member of the China-led grouping. Modi is…
Cairo, June 22 (IANS) An Egyptian court on Wednesday acquitted 22 defendants charged with illegally protesting in April against a government decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, the media reported. Wednesday’s…
Riyadh, June 22 (IANS) Saudi Arabia has announced a distance education programme for one million Yemenis from the beginning of the new academic year, the media reported on Wednesday. Launched by King Salman Humanitarian Aid…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for Tashkent on Thursday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit with India set to become…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing/New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) China on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of India getting Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) membership at the group’s meeting in Seoul as Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar flew…