NEW DELHI: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval calls for an inclusive government in Afghanistan and to enhance the capability of the country to counter-terror and terror groups that pose a threat to regional peace and security. Doval was participating in a security dialogue on Afghanistan along with counterparts from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, […]
NEW DELHI: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will lead a high-level delegation from India on a three-nation eight-day state visit to Gabon, Senegal and Qatar from Monday, May 30. A slew of bilateral issues will be discussed during the three-nation tour of the Indian delegation, officials from the Ministry of External Affairs stated. “This will […]
NEW DELHI: Germany has decided to recognize WHO-listed Covaxin for travelling to Germany from June 1, German Ambassador to India Walter J Linder said on Thursday. The German Embassy in New Delhi has been pushing for this decision to Berlin for a long time as thousands of Indian travellers, inoculated by Covaxin, waited for the […]
NEW DELHI: A day after skipping the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summons, Congress Lok Sabha MP Karti P Chidambaram on Thursday appeared before the agency for questioning in connection with an alleged visa for bribery case. Karti, who is the son of former Union finance and home minister P Chidambaram, arrived at CBI headquarters […]
MUMBAI: Multiple teams of India’s financial probe agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) swung into action on Thursday morning and carried out searches at seven locations in Maharashtra linked to state minister Anil Parab in a fresh money laundering probe. An ED official associated with the probe said that the agency is searching the premises […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan to further ease travel restrictions on travellers from India. During bilateral talks in Tokyo on the sidelines of the Quad Leaders’ Summit, PM Modi also appealed to his Japanese counterpart to facilitate quarantine free entry into Japan for the travellers from India, […]
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a supplementary chargesheet against one person in the Ansarullah terror module case in Tamil Nadu. The NIA filed a supplementary chargesheet against Divan Mujipeer aka Divan, who had met several accused in UAE to form an extremist religious group Ansarullah with an intention to establish […]
This final week of May 2022 is quite significant. There is a WEF summit going on in Davos, while Tokyo just witnessed the formation of a new economic bloc that has 12 countries – one that is being called the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework or IPEC. This summit was held on May 23 and was attended […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday in Tokyo, Japan. Suga, who was Japan’s PM from September 2020 to September 2021, is part of a group of 15 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers called the ‘Ganesha’ group. PM Modi appreciated him for being a member of this group. […]
NEW DELHI: His business-like approach notwithstanding, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also known to promote the arts of India through gifts that he often picks for his meetings with world leaders. It was no different during the Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo, Japan when PM Modi once again showcased the vastly varied Indian culture through […]