New Delhi: India Thursday said the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney next week will provide an opportunity to advance a forward-looking partnership between the two nations. Carney will undertake a four-day visit to India beginning Friday, in his...
United Nations: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has called for an overarching approach to human rights that includes development and capacity-building leading to “tangible improvements in the daily lives of the most vulnerable” and confronting terrorism rather than engaging in polemics of “politicisation, selectivity or...
Bijapur: Two Maoists were killed, and a cache of arms and ammunition was recovered following an encounter with security personnel in the Indravati river area of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh, officials said Thursday. According to officials, the operation was launched after specific intelligence inputs about...
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to depute one Central observer for each of the 294 Assembly constituencies to oversee the pre-poll nomination phase in West Bengal. Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that all...
New Delhi: The European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will not see any exceptions despite the concluded India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA), but both sides have committed to technical discussions to find the best way forward, a senior German environment ministry official said. Jochen...
Washington: The Trump administration’s effort to fast-track deportations to third countries hit a legal setback after a US appeals court refused to pause a lower court order blocking the policy. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston Wednesday (local time) denied...
New Delhi: Union minister Piyush Goyal Wednesday launched a blistering attack on Rahul Gandhi, alleging that the Congress leader and his party are compromised and spreading falsehood to destabilise the country's progress at the behest of anti-India forces. Addressing a press conference at the BJP...
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying it has been more than 24 hours since he challenged the PM to scrap the India-US interim trade deal and once again, he (Modi)has "quietly slipped off to Israel"....
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate attached Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani's Mumbai house, 'Abode', worth Rs 3,716 crore under the anti-money laundering law, official sources said Wednesday. The luxurious house, which is 66 metres high with 17 floors, is located in the Pali Hill area...
London: New rules in force from Wednesday will see the UK transition to a digital transit system, including mandatory eVisas for Indian travellers and Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) for non-visa requiring visitors. The new procedure will replace paper-based visa stickers as part of a phased...
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