- Monday, April 21, 2025
INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the US from September 21-27, during which he will meet President Donald Trump and address the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said on Thursday. Modi is scheduled to arrive in Houston on Saturday. A day later, Trump…
PAKISTAN Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday left on a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia to discuss bilateral and regional matters, including the Kashmir issue, with the Kingdom's leadership. Prime Minister Khan will "discuss with the Saudi leadership the various dimensions of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, arising from…
DIALOGUE between India and Pakistan is an "absolute essential element" for resolving the Kashmir issue and his good offices are available if both sides ask for it, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said while calling for the full respect of human rights. The Secretary General's remarks came ahead of the…
THERE is no financial crisis in India, Indian Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday, adding that the federal government was taking all necessary steps to strengthen the economy. "To make the economy stronger, the government has taken all measures and I want to say that the fundamentals of the country's…
INDIAN Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday flew in the Tejas fighter aircraft from the HAL airport in Bengaluru, becoming the first defence minister to fly in the indigenously-built light combat aircraft (LCA). After the 30-minute sortie, the defence minister said he chose the aircraft because it was built indigenously…
INDIA'S cabinet on Wednesday (18) banned production and import of electronic cigarettes, a public health move that is seen dashing the expansion plans of companies such as Juul Labs and Philip Morris International. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a media briefing that an executive order will be passed to ban…
EVERY fourth non-resident foreign national in the US in 2016 was an India, according to a report which states that about 60 per cent of the resident non-immigrants were citizens of Asian countries, with those from China accounting for 15 per cent. In 2016, there were an estimated 2.3 million…
ARMED militants are trying to spread fear among residents in and defy the administration by forcibly shutting shops, sometimes by walking into the premises and intimidating owners, through threats made in posters that appear on walls overnight or by sealing shutters with tape, officials in Jammu and Kashmir said. Jammu…
FORTY-FOUR members of the US Congress have urged president Donald Trump's trade representative to restore trade concessions to India, saying the withdrawal of the privilege had led to retaliatory tariffs from New Delhi which were hurting US industry. In June, the US ended its preferential trade treatment for India, removing…
THE National Green Tribunal on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea challenging the decision of the Delhi government to implement odd-even road rationing scheme in the national capital from November 4-15. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel questioned the maintainability of the plea and "dismissed it…
