Author: Ayanangsha Maitra

PM Narendra Modi will attend the SCO summit on Friday morning, the second and concluding day of the summit in Samarkand, where the SCO states are expected to come up with the Samarkand Declaration.

To further boost their defence ties amid China’s belligerence, India and Japan will conduct their first-ever air force fighter exercise, they announced after the second 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministerial meeting in Tokyo on Thursday. New Delhi and Tokyo have also decided to initiate Joint Service Staff talks between Japan Joint Staff and Integrated Defence […]

Ashok Kantha, former Indian Ambassador to China, stressed on security cooperation between India and the island nation. He was speaking at a conference on Sri Lankan crisis, convened by Chennai Centre for China Studies on Friday

MAHABALIPURAM (TN): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin is all set to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the inauguration of the 44th International Chess Olympiad in Mahabalipuram during his visit to New Delhi on July 19. The Olympiad will take place between July 28 to August 10. Tamil Nadu, the home state of five-time […]

COLOMBO: Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan Prime Minister and leader of UNP assumed the chair of the acting president as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country in the early morning amid the turmoil. A nationwide curfew has been imposed till 5 am on Thursday. Right after assuming the chair, Wickremesinghe instructed the Lankan security forces to […]

CHENNAI: Amid country-wide unrest and sheer public pressure for his resignation, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday morning, a move experts said is on the expected lines. Speaking to The New Indian on Rajapaksa’s exit, Col. Hariharan, a noted Chennai-based Sri Lankan expert said, “It was expected. Yesterday, he also […]

CHENNAI: India’s refusal to cow down to China’s aggressive posture at Galwan in 2020 has taken many aback. Though in the coming days, China’s aggression along the LAC has increased, experts at a panel discussion opined that India should engage more with the neighbourhood to confront China. Joining a panel discussion on ‘China’s aggression Unabated’ […]

CHENNAI: It was an emotional day for Japan as the coalition of assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito won 76 out of the 125 seats contested. The coalition had won 69 seats in the previous election. The LDP alone won 63 seats, up from 55, in the last election. […]

COLOMBO/ CHENNAI: After months of relentless pressure from the citizens, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa finally decided to leave as he signed a letter of resignation on Monday, Sri Lankan daily Daily Mirror reported. President Gotabaya will submit the resignation letter on July 13 and the Speaker of Parliament will announce his resignation on Wednesday, […]

CHENNAI: The general council of AIADMK on Monday appointed former chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami as the party’s interim general secretary till the party elects a general secretary. The top body of the AIADMK removed the rival leader of OPS faction, former chief minister O Pannerselvam, from the party and passed 16 resolutions. O Pannerselvam […]