International

New Delhi: India has refuted reports in Canadian media regarding the killing of India-designated Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was aware of the alleged plot to assassinate Nijjar," the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement....

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with Guyana’s highest civilian honour, 'The Order of Excellence', by President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, for his visionary statesmanship, championing the rights of developing countries on the global stage, exceptional service to the global community and for his...

New York: Indian businessman Gautam Adani who is one of the world's richest people has been indicted in the US on charges he duped investors by concealing that his company's huge solar energy project on the subcontinent was being facilitated by an alleged bribery scheme....

Georgetown: India and Guyana Wednesday agreed to ramp up cooperation in areas of defence, trade, energy, pharmaceutical and agriculture as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Guyanese President Mohamed Irfaan Ali held extensive talks focusing on bolstering the overall relations. The two sides inked five agreements...

Kyiv: The Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to help it slow Russia's battlefield progress in the war, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday, as the U.S. and some other Western embassies in Kyiv stayed closed after a threat...

Geneva: The World Health Organisation has authorized the first mpox vaccine for children, a decision experts hope will help make immunizations more widely available to one of the hardest-hit populations during the ongoing outbreaks of the disease in Congo and elsewhere in Africa. In a...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday held delegation-level talks with his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun in Vientiane, weeks after Indian and Chinese militaries completed disengagement of troops from two last face-off points in eastern Ladakh. The meeting took place in the capital city of...

New York: The first issue in engaging with Pakistan is the cessation of terrorism, India's envoy at the UN said, underlining that India has been a long-standing victim of cross-border and global terrorism and has zero tolerance towards the scourge. “With Pakistan, the main issue...

Bhubaneswar: Odia has officially been added to the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) International Languages programme, with classes set to begin this month at Tam O’Shanter Public School. The milestone was achieved through the tireless efforts of Amalendu Das and Babita Mohanty, an Odia couple,...

Rio de Janeiro: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the leaders at the G20 Summit ‘deepened global collaboration’ for a better future. He said this before leaving the Brazilian city for Guyana Tuesday. “We had engaging conversations and deepened global collaboration in areas like...