International

Kingston: Reaffirming its commitment to support Global South partners, India delivered 20 tonnes of Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) materials to Jamaica to help in recovery efforts following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa. The consignment from the Government of India arrived in Jamaica’s...

New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he could travel to India next year and noted that talks with New Delhi are “going good". "It's great, going good. He (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) stopped... Largely, he stopped buying oil from Russia,” Trump said at...

Helsinki: India and Finland agreed to strengthen bilateral ties across multiple sectors, including trade, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, and clean technologies, during their 13th Foreign Office Consultations in Helsinki Thursday. Sharing details regarding the meeting, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal in a post on...

Islamabad: Pakistan's Foreign Office rejected as "unfounded and misleading" the allegations that some Hindu pilgrims were denied entry into the country while travelling with a Sikh group Thursday. A group of nearly 1,900 Sikh pilgrims crossed over to Pakistan through the Attari-Wagah border for Guru...

Lahore: A Pakistani minister and close aide to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif  Thursday visited the office of the Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), a political face of Hafiz Saeed's banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah, in Punjab and met its leaders. Minister of State for Interior Senator Talal Chaudhry...

Bangkok: The Indian Embassy in Bangkok announced Thursday that 270 Indian nationals, including 26 women, were repatriated from Thailand's Mae Sot city to India through a coordinated effort involving two special Indian Air Force flights. The Embassy of India in Bangkok and the Consulate of India...

Rotorua (New Zealand): Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Thursday said talks are progressing fast between India and New Zealand and expressed hope that the free trade agreement will be finalised soon. Goyal is here on a four-day official visit to review progress of the...

Washington: India's Ambassador to the United States, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, discussed bilateral trade and the signing of a 10-year defence framework agreement between the two countries in a meeting with Senator Steve Daines. “It was an honour to meet Senator @SteveDaines, esteemed member of the...

Islamabad: Anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi Thursday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan's sister Aleema Khan for the eighth consecutive time due to her repeated failure to appear before the court, local media reported. The case being heard in...

New York: Known to make inconsistent comments, US President Donald Trump now claims that eight planes were shot down during the war between India and Pakistan in May, once again without specifying who they belonged to. Addressing the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, Wednesday,...