NEW DELHI: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Germany next month, Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development arrived here on a two-day visit and discussed a wide range of issues including boosting bilateral trade with Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla and Indian officials on Friday. Flasbarth […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his UK counterpart Boris Johnson sought a dialogue to mitigate the Ukraine crisis even as the two leaders in their first-ever joint address skipped any hawkish stance on Russia, indicating the respect for each other’s sovereignty and the growing ties the two nations have enjoyed over the last […]
NEW DELHI: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to make a slew of investment announcements to boost bilateral trade and ties when he visits India on Thursday and Friday amid fears of another wave of COVID-19 in view of rising cases of COVID-19. Johnson will land in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on April 21 where […]
NEW DELHI: National commission for minorities chief Iqbal Singh Lalpura, a representative of the Centre, on Monday sought to address concerns of the overwhelming population of Muslims of Jahangirpuri neighbourhood of Delhi in the wake of the Saturday clash, saying no “innocent person will be challaned” but minced no words on attacks on policemen with […]
NEW DELHI: Shahbaz Sharif — now the premier of Pakistan — who 10 years ago had visited his paternal village of Jati Umra on the Indian side of Punjab, knows the importance of ties he enjoyed with India and the risks he may invite at the cost of any untoward incident that his predecessors […]
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on Friday extended greetings to Sikhs and Jains on their occasion of Baisakhi and Mahavir Jayanti.
NEW DELHI: Germany will extend a formal invitation to India to attend the G7 summit as a guest, sources in the German embassy confirmed to The New Indian. There were speculations that India may not be part of the summit to be hosted by Germany at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps in June this year. […]
NEW DELHI: Controversial American professor Amy Wax has once again stoked controversy for her racist and abusive comments — this time targeting Indian immigrants in the US, triggering a huge backlash in India. Wax, a professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, in a talk show, said “Blacks” and other “non-western” groups harbor “resentment, […]
NEW DELHI: Ambassador Alejandro Simancas Marín, Cuba’s Envoy to India on Monday said Cuba and India work out ways to boost trade and transactions amid a strict and stiff blockade imposed by the US. Calling the blockade “illegal and unilateral”, the envoy asserted in New Delhi that Havana will explore ways to lift the blockade. […]
WASHINGTON DC: The United States accused China of undermining the sovereignty of its neighbours during discussions between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh & External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar and US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin & Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the fourth 2+2 ministerial dialogue on Monday. India-US Defence Cooperation is being further […]