Author: Ayanangsha Maitra

NEW DELHI: Despite India and Italy having strong ties, the two are yet to have adequate amounts of business, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. “Our history goes back centuries but business relations have not taken that shape,” Goyal said during his meeting with visiting Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and […]

  NEW DELHI: India and the United Kingdom explored ways to deepen their cooperation on a slew of areas relating to the Commonwealth on Thursday. The discussions took place as part of the Director General level India-UK Commonwealth Dialogue that concluded in New Delhi on Thursday. Prakash Gupta, Joint Secretary, UN-Political Division led a delegation […]

  NEW DELHI: Abdul Hafiz, a cold drink seller from the Jahangirpuri in Delhi, was at his cheerful best that cloaked his anxieties on poor earnings since the lockdown as Eid al-Fitr brought a ray of hope in the post COVID era. Standing by his aluminium cabin, the 28-year-old counted his blessings as his profit […]

  NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz appealed for peace in Ukraine in their first joint address after their meeting in Berlin on Monday. “Geopolitical developments have shown how fragile peace and stability in the world are and how interconnected all countries are,” PM Modi said while delivering a brief […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra discussed bilateral cooperation under the overall strategic partnership, regional and global issues, ahead of the sixth round of Biennial Inter-Governmental Consultations (IGC) during his one-to-one meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Monday. PM Modi reached Berlin on Monday morning on the first leg of his three-nation Europe […]

CHATTOGRAM, BANGLADESH: Jiten Kanti Guho, a former president of the local unit of the Awami League, was tied up to a tree and beaten up last week in an incident that created ripples in Bangladesh. While the local minority community leaders termed it as a case of a communal attack on minorities in Bangladesh, the […]

NEW DELHI: Signalling more troubles for embattled Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Interior Minister on Sunday said that the former Pakistan Prime Minister will be arrested for sloganeering against his successor Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the premises of Masjid-e-Nabawi (PBUH) on Thursday in Saudi Arabia. “They will not be forgiven at all for what they did. […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on an important visit to Europe as he will visit Germany for the 6th India-Germany Inter-Governmental Consultations (IGC), will attend the Second Indo-Nordic Summit in Denmark and will make a brief stopover at France. His visit comes at a crucial time when the world is stirred by […]

  NEW DELHI: Germany has ruled out the possibility of expansion of the elite power block G7 at the moment, German Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office, Dr Tobias Lindner said on Thursday. “Honestly, I’m not sure. It’s not the debate at the moment, to be honest. It’s the same like looking, for instance, at […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen here on Monday and urged for a physical India-European Union summit. The German politician is in the capital as the chief guest of Raisina Dialogue, India’s geo-economic conclave that was started on Monday. She arrived in India on Sunday […]