Kathmandu, June 21 (IANS) The Nepalese government has decided to dispatch an aircraft to Afghanistan to bring home the remains of 12 Nepali nationals killed in the Kabul suicide bombing on Monday. A meeting of…
Bhopal/Beijing, June 21 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is on a five-day official visit to China, participated in a Yoga programme in Beijing on the occasion of the International Yoga Day….
New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) A high-level official team is headed for Mozambique to explore imports of pulses and also the feasibility of contract farming in the southern African nation. The team is being led…
Seoul, June 21 (IANS) North Korea on Tuesday threatened to detain indefinitely two Americans if former detainee and Christian missionary Kenneth Bae kept publicly criticising the Kim Jong-un regime. “Pyongyang will neither make any compromise…
Washington, June 21 (IANS) Amid China’s reluctance to back India’s NSG bid, the US said it will continue to urge countries in the 48-member bloc to support India’s membership application at the plenary session in…
By Arul Louis United Nations, June 21 (IANS) “Yoga is not Indian” and “it does not belong to India”, mystic and yoga master Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev told a UN meeting on Monday with a rhetorical…
Tehran, June 21 (IANS) Iran has condemned Bahrain’s move to strip of the country’s top Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, of his citizenship. Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned the Bahraini regime’s “intensification of its…
Washington, June 21 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Ash Carter and his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman on Monday reaffirmed the strength of the US-Israeli defence relationship, the Pentagon said in a statement. At their meeting at…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) Two Indians were killed in the suicide blast targetting a mini bus carrying private security guards in Kabul on Monday, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The Indian nationals were…
Islamabad, June 20 (IANS) Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Monday termed Hindu “extremist” organisations and their “influence” on the present Indian government as the biggest hurdle to the Pakistan-India peace dialogue. “In…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi/Chandigarh, June 20 (IANS) Hundreds of thousands of people across the country and abroad will bend and stretch and do some deep breathing as part of yoga…
Hyderabad, June 20 (IANS) China’s Hainan province on Monday signed an MoU with Telangana for establishment of sister-province relationship. The agreement was signed by the Principal Secretary, Industries and Commerce, Arvind Kumar on behalf of…
Kolkata, June 20 (IANS) Bangladesh High Commissioner to India, Syed Muazzem Ali on Monday expressed faith in West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee making a breakthrough in the Teesta water sharing. “We have said that…
Jerusalem, June 20 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel would ratify a treaty banning nuclear tests, according to a statement from his office. Netanyahu, who met on Monday morning with…
Islamabad, June 20 (IANS) Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday agreed to peacefully resolve a border issue that has seen both sides locked in a fierce stand-off over construction of a gate by Pakistan. Clashes between…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The CPI-M on Monday denounced the 100 per cent FDI in defence, aviation and pharmaceutical industries, saying this was not in India’s interests. Referring to the growing strategic ties between…
By Mahendra Ved Budapest, June 20 (IANS) People in nine different cities of Hungary, including Budapest, had a tryst with things Indian as part of the Ganges-Danube Festival and International Day of Yoga. The Yoga…
Beijing, June 20 (IANS) Officials and experts from six countries will meet in Beijing to discuss Northeast Asia cooperation, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Monday. China, Russia, Japan, the US, South Korea and…
Moscow, June 20 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to China on June 25 when he plans to sign a series of bilateral agreements, the Kremlin said in a statement on…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, June 20 (IANS) In a blow to India’s NSG hopes, China said on Monday that the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was still divided over admitting the country and that New Delhi’s…