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New Delhi: British Foreign Secretary David Lammy will pay a two-day visit to India beginning Saturday to review bilateral ties in areas of trade as well as defence and security. Lammy will hold wide-ranging talks with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar, and is scheduled to call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, officials said on Friday. The British foreign secretary will also meet Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal. Lammy's visit to New Delhi comes over a month after the two countries finalised an ...Read More >
Pakistan's former Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, recently faced public embarrassment at a United Nations press briefing after he was fact-checked by a reporter for making unsubstantial claims that Muslims were being 'demonised' in India. Bilawal Bhutto, part of Islamabad's diplomatic team at the UN, made the remarks during a press conference to clarify Pakistan's stance on Kashmir. Pahalgam attack was politicised to demonise Indian Mu ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): BJP MP Baijayant Panda led an all-party delegation to Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Algeria, successfully presented India's stance on terrorism. The delegation shared facts and figures about the Pahalgam terrorist attack and India's response, highlighting Pakistan's role in supporting terrorism. Panda said that all four countries have taken steps against terrorism and have a clear understanding of India's position. 'The tour was very successful. We went t ...Read More >
India's All-Party Delegation in Tokyo (Image: X@IndianEmbTokyo)synopsis India's all-party delegation and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri held key meetings with Japanese leaders and think tanks in Tokyo, reaffirming India's zero tolerance to terrorism. Japan strongly backed India's stance and urged strict action. India's All-Party Parliamentary Delegation interacted with leading Japanese think tanks in Tokyo and briefed them on India's zero tolerance to terrorism. As per India's Embassy in Toky ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a 42-year-old Ashoka University associate professor and head of political science department, was recently arrested for social media commentary on 'Operation Sindoor,' thrusting the academic, writer, and former spokesperson of Samajwadi Party into the national spotlight. The Supreme Court on Monday has agreed to hear a plea challenging his arrest, with senior advocate Kapil Sibal calling his statements "entirely patriotic." Academics, opposition leaders and right ...Read More >
New Delhi, May 19 (PTI) The Congress on Monday dismissed as an "absolute lie" Union Minister Kiren Rijiju's reported assertion that that the government did not ask for names for the all-party diplomatic delegations going abroad, and said it was "cheap politics" to not get the names it selected cleared with the opposition party. Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the same PM who had abused the Congress publicly i ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], January 14 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday strongly took up the matter of Indian nationals serving in the Russian Army, following the death of an Indian citizen from Kerala. The MEA has reiterated its demand for the early discharge and repatriation of the remaining Indian nationals. "The matter has been strongly taken up with the Russian authorities in Moscow as well as with the Russian Embassy in New Delhi today. We have also reiterated our demand fo ...Read More >
New Delhi: India on Monday summoned Nural Islam, Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India, to discuss the escalating border tensions between New Delhi and Dhaka. It was conveyed that with regard to security measures at the border, including on fencing, India observed all protocols and agreements between the two governments and between the Border Security Force and Border Guard Bangladesh, officials informed. "India reiterated its commitment to ensuring a crime-free border by effectively ...Read More >
Guwahati, Dec 13: India must address the issue of attacks on minorities in Bangladesh through diplomatic means, as using any other means is neither viable nor advisable, according to former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Ajay Bisaria. In an exclusive interview with The Assam Tribune, Bisaria emphasised that the attacks on minorities in Bangladesh were a significant concern for India, both from a humanitarian and a political perspective. He recalled the massive influx of refugees in 1971, ...Read More >
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress on Thursday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak in Parliament on situation in neighbouring Bangladesh. The issue was raised in the Rajya Sabha in the post-lunch sitting by TMC's Parliamentary Party leader Derek O'Brien, who sought permission to raise a point of order. He quoted Rule 251, and said he wanted the Prime Minister to come and give a statement on Bangladesh issue. Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar however said it is not a point of order, and did no ...Read More >
The award was announced by the international jury of the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust, chaired by former Foreign Secretary and National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon. "The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development for 2024 is awarded to Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet for being an exemplary and inspirational figure to women and men around the world. She has steadfastly strived for peace, gender equality, human rights, democracy, and development under various circumstance ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 4 (UNI) The twin considerations of "an unstable local situation and an impacted bilateral relationship" were the drivers of India's border talks with China, which culminated in the October 21 agreement with Beijing on disengagement, which has been fully achieved, and the next priority is to consider de-escalation to address the massing of troops along the LAC, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told the Rajya Sabha today. He said that the Modi government has been and remains ...Read More >
The Bangladeshi external affairs ministry summoned Pranay Kumar Verma, India's high commissioner to Bangladesh, to protest the security breach of Agartala Assistant High Commission. Bangladesh external affairs ministry on Tuesday summoned Pranay Kumar Verma, the Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, over the security breach incident at the Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh in Tripura's Agartala, Bangladeshi news outlets said. In Agartala, the capital city of the northeastern state of T ...Read More >
UK sanctions 30 shadow tankers in largest clampdown on Russian oil trade The UK has blacklisted another 30 oil tankers in Russia's "shadow" fleet in its largest sanctions package of this kind to date, the government said Nov. 25, as a G7 foreign ministerial meeting kicks off in Italy. To circumvent the G7's price cap on seaborne Russian oil exports, Russia has amassed a large tanker fleet of 586 ships totaling 57.1 million dwt, according to a recent analysis based on S&P Global Commodities at ...Read More >
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