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New York: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has held a series of high-level bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly session here, engaging with top officials, including UN chief Antonio Guterres and UNGA President Annalena Baerbock. Jaishankar met with UN...

United Nations/New York: The BRICS nations have expressed concern over the proliferation of trade-restrictive actions in the form of “indiscriminate rising" of tariffs, particularly measures used as a means of “coercion”, cautioning that such practices risk marginalising the Global South countries. The BRICS Ministers of...

New York: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has called on BRICS to defend the multilateral trading system amid increasing protectionism and tariff volatility during a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers here on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. “When multilateralism is under...

Jharsuguda: In a major boost to tele-communication infrastructure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday inaugurated BSNL's 'Swadeshi' 4G stack, marking India's entry into a coveted league of nations that manufacture telecom equipment. On the occasion of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's silver jubilee, the PM also...

Jharsuguda: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday unveiled development projects valued at more than Rs 50,000 crore in sectors such as telecommunications, railways and higher education, from Odisha's Jharsuguda. The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for Rs 11,000 crore infrastructure expansion projects in eight IITs...

Mumbai: Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled nearly 1 per cent Friday, marking their sixth consecutive day of decline, following heavy selling in pharma and IT shares as US President Donald Trump announced 100 per cent duties on pharmaceutical drugs from next month. The...

New Delhi/Angul: Jindal Steel Friday announced the commissioning of a blast furnace of 5 million tonne per annum (MTPA) capacity at its Angul plant in Odisha as part of the ongoing over Rs 20,000 crore expansion project. The blast furnace with 5,499 m2 (cubic meters)...

London: British citizens and permanent residents will have to produce a mandatory digital identification card in order to get work, the government announced Friday, reviving an idea that has long been controversial in the UK. The government says the plan will help reduce unauthorised immigration...

New Delhi: India and US have discussed various aspects of the proposed trade agreement, and both sides have decided to continue their engagements to achieve early conclusion of a mutually beneficial trade pact, the Commerce Ministry said Friday. Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal had...

New Delhi: The ties between India and Sri Lanka have reached a point of unprecedented excellence since the visit of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to India and the following visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Sri Lanka, the island nation's envoy said Friday. Interacting...