- Saturday, March 01, 2025
India will do "whatever we can" to resolve the Ukraine crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged Saturday (20) as he met President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time since Russia's invasion. "I understand your pain and the pain of Ukrainian citizens very well," Modi said, as the pair met on…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (21) received an unprecedented welcome from his Papua New Guinean counterpart after he reached the Pacific island-nation as the first Indian premier. After he descended the stairs of the flight around 10 pm local time at the airport in Port Moresby, the capital…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (21) concluded his "fruitful visit to Japan" and reached Papua New Guinea (PNG), the second destination of his three-nation visit that also includes Australia. Thanking Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida who invited him to the G7 summit, Modi said in a tweet, “It…
A week since it secured a thumping victory over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by prime minister Narendra Modi in the elections, the Indian National Congress formed its new government in the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Saturday (20). Siddaramaiah, who served as the chief minister between 2013…
Sri Lanka has summoned the Canadian high commissioner in Colombo and registered a strong protest over Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau's "irresponsible" and "polarising" comments on what he termed was "Tamil Genocide" on the 14th anniversary of the end of the brutal civil war in the island-nation. The bitterly-fought conflict,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday (20) held bilateral talks in Hiroshima, Japan, in their first in-person meeting since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February last year. The meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima came a day after leaders of the…
MK Stalin, the chief minister of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, will lead a business delegation to Singapore on May 23 and 24 to give businesspeople in the South-east Asian city-state a deep insight into the business potential of the south Indian state and attract investments. Around 350…
Prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met US president Joe Biden and British prime minister Rishi Sunak on the sidelines of the ongoing G7 summit in Hiroshima in Japan. On both occasions, the Indian leader was seen giving bear hugs to both the western leaders. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (20) met some of the leading Japanese personalities who were instrumental in promoting Indian culture in Japan, saying such interactions facilitate the deepening of mutual understanding and creating stronger bonds between the two countries. Modi is currently in Hiroshima to attend three sessions…
At a time when the film 'The Kerala Story' has triggered a controversy in India with different states having contradictory takes over it, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government of the southern state of Kerala on Saturday (20) came out with an advertisement picking on the controversial film which has…
