Islamabad, Oct 12 (IANS) Pakistani and visiting US officials held talks here on Thursday and agreed to “continue bilateral engagements at all levels”, an official said. The inter-agency US delegation included Lisa Curtis, Deputy Assistant…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) A joint field training exercise on flood rescue was conducted at the Yamuna Barrage in Wazirabad on Thursday as part of the first Bay of Bengal Initiative For Multi- Sectoral…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) With three Left parties in Nepal forming a surprise alliance ahead of provincial and federal parliamentary elections, India on Thursday said it was only for peace, stability and prosperity of…
Washington, Oct 12 (IANS) The US on Thursday said it is pulling out of the UN’s cultural organisation Unesco, accusing it of an “anti-Israel” bias. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement that…
Brussels, Oct 12 (IANS) The Brexit talks are currently in a “disturbing deadlock” but no agreement between the European Union (EU) and Britain would be a bad deal, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on…
Islamabad, Oct 12 (IANS) The Pakistan Army on Thursday said it had rescued a family of foreign hostages held by a militant outfit “safe and sound” after it acted on intelligence shared by the US….
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The next course of action by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Indian national sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage,…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) India has reiterated the need for an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled national peace and reconciliation in the strife-torn country, the External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday. New Delhi’s views were…
Seoul, Oct 12 (IANS) South Korea will offer voluntary medical examination to North Korean defectors who lived near the nuclear base where the Pyongyang regime has carried out six atomic tests since 2006, to check…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron will be present at the founding ceremony of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) due to take place here on December 8,…
Gaza, Oct 12 (IANS) The leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Thursday announced it had reached a reconciliation agreement with its rival, the nationalist party Fatah, following the first round of talks under…
Pyongyang, Oct 12 (IANS) North Korea will “shower fire” on the US in response to the threats by its President Donald Trump, the regime’s Foreign Minister has said. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho made…
Washington, Oct 12 (IANS) Pakistan Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has urged the US not to look at the CPEC from an Indian perspective but as an economic plan for bringing peace and stability to South…
By Bhaswati Mukherjee It was a summit based on huge expectations on both sides, the first between the leaders of India and the European Union since Brexit. The meeting was rich in symbolism, marking 55…
Moscow, Oct 12 (IANS) Leaders of the Commonwealth of Independence States (CIS) have signed a series of deals to expand economic and security cooperation within the Russia-led organisation. The agreements were reached during a summit…
Washington, Oct 12 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said if talks to reform North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) fail, he could envisage a US-Canada trade pact, excluding Mexico. The US president said if…
Ankara, Oct 12 (IANS) US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu have discussed “mutual visa suspension issue” over phone. The phone talk on Wednesday marks the first time between the…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) India has reiterated its call for a permanent solution to the food security issue at the World Trade Organisation at a WTO meet in Morocco’s Marrakesh, an official statement said…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The cabinet on Wednesday approved signing of MoUs by market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) with its counterparts in Gibraltar and Kuwait for strengthening the information sharing…
Rome, Oct 11 (IANS/AKI) The influx of migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe is just “the tip of iceberg” of a wider global phenomenon of historic proportions, Italy’s Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said on Wednesday….