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. […]

TOKYO/NEW DELHI: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe succumbed to his injuries on Friday after he was shot early in the morning. The ex-Prime Minister was in Japan’s Nara city for a campaign speech. He was shot in the neck and the chest. The suspect had been a member of the maritime self-defence force for […]

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his silence on suspended BJP spokespersons over their controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammed and said India has been shamed for the last eight years on the global platform. Addressing a press conference here at the party headquarters, Congress spokesperson Pawan […]

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday said that the ties between India and Bangladesh reached their golden chapter under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh. Dr Momen’s comments came during his address at the third edition of Natural Allies in Development and Interdependence (NADI) in […]

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: 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 […]

  NEW DELHI: To further strengthen relationships between the European Union (EU) and New Delhi, European Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen will pay her maiden visit to India and hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week. Leyen will be in New Delhi on April 24 and April 25 during which she will […]

NEW DELHI: Another tranche of 11,000 metric tonnes of rice from India reached Sri Lanka, amid the Island nation’s economic catastrophe. The aid reaches at a time when Sri Lanka is expected to celebrate Sinhalese and Tamil New Year on April 13 and 14. Prior to this, 16,000 metric tonnes of rice was supplied by […]

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 […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden discussed the COVID-19 pandemic, global economic recovery, climate action, recent developments in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific region, and the situation in Ukraine in a virtual meeting on Monday. During the meeting the two leaders reviewed developments in the bilateral relations, the Prime Minister’s office […]