NEW DELHI: NEW DELHI: As tensions between India and Maldives continue to rise, a Chinese research ship Xiang Yang Hong 03 is scheduled to reach Maldives, according to global ship-tracking data. This comes just three months after a similar vessel’s presence in the Indian Ocean raised security concerns in India.TheContinue Reading
ABU DHABI: In a display of interfaith solidarity, the Gurudwara in Dubai distributed 5,000 ‘langar‘ meals at the inauguration of the first Hindu stone temple here on Wednesday. The temple was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a dedication ceremony attended by over 5,000 invitees. Surender Singh Kandhari, chairmanContinue Reading
JAIPUR: US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti said India is in the “driving seat” of the Quad, while America is in the seat next to it with the “corrective steering wheel”, and added that it is up to India to “forcefully define” the nature of the diplomatic partnership. Garcetti, speakingContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: Gurdaib Singh Pala Singh, an Indian-origin former Singaporean lawyer has been sentenced to almost four years in jail for misappropriating SGD 480,000 entrusted to him by three clients.According to a news report, the 70-year-old committed these offenses between 2011 and 2016. Despite being removed from legal practice inContinue Reading
For the first time, EU will appoint a military attaché in India as it looks to strengthen security and defence ties with the country, and also to add teeth to its Indo-Pacific strategy that it announced in 2021.The appointment is significant, coming as it does amid EU’s pivot to theContinue Reading
MUMBAI: Prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asserted that India will leave “no stone unturned” in its efforts to organise the 2036 Olympics as the government expressed a strong desire to host the biggest sporting event in the world. Modi declared open the 141st Session of the International Olympic CommitteeContinue Reading
COLOMBO: India on Wednesday asked the countries in the Indian Ocean region to effectively address the development challenges as it warned them to be clear of the dangers of “hidden agendas” in unviable projects or unsustainable debt, in an apparent reference to China which is accused by the West ofContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan who is on a State visit to India on Monday met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Prime Minister Modi held a bilateral meeting with the Tanzanian President Hassan at Hyderabad House in the national capital. During the meeting, Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) willContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The ‘top Indian diplomat’ expelled by Canada amid allegations linking the Indian government to the assassination of a Khalistani activist has been identified as Pavan Kumar Rai, purportedly the Canadian station chief of India’s intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).Rai’s name was leaked to the Canadian media byContinue Reading
KOLKATA: The proposed ‘India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor‘ announced during the just-concluded G20 Leaders’ Summit in Delhi will prove to be a game-changer project and provide huge impetus to global trade, Engineering Exports Promotion Council India (EEPC India) said on Monday. The corridor will also make the “global supply chain moreContinue Reading