Woman Prof accuses 2 Pak embassy officers of sexual harassment

The two Pakistan embassy officers also offered her a hefty amount of money for writing propaganda against PM Modi & Indian government, she alleged.

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas: Opportunity to deepen connect with diaspora, says PM Modi

PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention tomorrow

Crowd Funding Platforms Could Be Misused, Says Delhi Declaration On Countering Terrorism

The UNSC’s Counter Terrorism Committee unanimously adopted the Delhi Declaration today. Among the many concerns that’s aiding terrorism in a technologically advanced world, the Committee recognised that innovations in financial technologies such as crowd funding platforms present a risk of being misused for terrorist-financing. With the growing prevalence of technology and the rapid rise in digitization, […]

India Flags Misuse Of Crypto, SM & VPN At UN Anti-Terror Meet

Internet and social media have turned into potent instruments in the “toolkit of terrorist groups” for spreading propaganda, radicalisation and conspiracy theories for destabilising societies, external affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar told a key anti-terror meeting of the UN in New Delhi on Saturday. Speaking at the second session of the United Nations Security Council’s […]

UN Chief’s 3-Day India Visit Begins On Oct 18

United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres will hold bilateral talks with external affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar and inspect India’s first solar-powered village in Gujarat during a three-day India visit, starting October 18. Guterres earlier visited India in October 2018. He will begin his visit from Mumbai by paying homage to the victims of the 26/11 […]

MoS Muraleedharan Embarks On 2-Day Oman Visit

Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan reached Muscat on a two-day official visit to Oman starting Monday. He will hold a bilateral meeting with his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi. This is Muraleedharan’s second visit to the Sultanate. The high-level visit is aimed at reinforcing the shared commitment to […]

Japan & India To Hold Joint Air Exercise, Service Staff Talks

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 […]

Doval, Russian Dy PM Talk Trade, Economic Ties

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Thursday met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov as they discussed a slew of important topics, including trade and economic ties, between the two countries in Moscow.

QUAD, I2U2 & Impossibility Of Cold War Politics

Profound global changes happen long before human beings realize them. The world, for example, went multipolar before a lot of us could even guess what multipolarity truly meant. It initiated multipolarity when the West, in its attempt to ‘connect’ the globe through globalisation, literally shipped out its different lifelines to different corners, without a thought […]

LDP, Ally Win Japan Election; Abe’s Funeral Hosted By Widow

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. […]