The foreign ministry of China on Tuesday (9) dismissed charges that boats of a Chinese maritime militia had intentionally approached a zone of the South China Sea where navies of India and member-states of the Association of South East Asian Nations were conducting drills. According to Reuters which confirmed this,…
Pakistan remained witness to unprecedented scenes on Tuesday (9) following the arrest of its former prime minister Imran Khan as thousands of his supporters stormed the headquarters of the country's army, considered its most powerful institution since Independence in 1947, in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. The Corps Commander's residence…
In his first ever trip to the US in 1960, former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924-2018) befriended a young Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer posted in the permanent mission of India to the UN and explored New York with him, visiting museums, art galleries and even nightclubs, says…
Carlos Alcaraz celebrated "being almost at the door" of becoming the top ranked tennis player in the world again after defending his Madrid Open title on Sunday (7). The Spaniard earned his 10th career title with a hard-fought 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win over Jan-Lennard Struff and can reclaim the world…
Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn has bought a huge tract of land on the outskirts of Indian tech hub Bengaluru, the key Apple supplier said in a filing Tuesday as it looks to diversify production away from China. Also known by its official name, Hon Hai Precision Industry, Foxconn is the…
Pakistan's former chief minister Imran Khan was on Tuesday (9) arrested by Pakistan Rangers personnel from outside the high court in the national capital of Islamabad where he had gone for two hearings. The 70-year-old supremo of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was arrested in the Al-Qadir Trust case. https://twitter.com/BabarAwanPK/status/1655897836838617089 https://twitter.com/PTIofficial/status/1655890693531791361 Islamabad…
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan was on Tuesday (9) arrested in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case from outside the high court in national capital Islamabad where he had gone to attend two hearings in the afternoon. The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was taken in custody by Pakistan Rangers officials from…
Israel is keen to finalise a free trade agreement (FTA) with India as there is a huge scope of trade between the two nations, the country's foreign minister Eli Cohen has said, and expressed hope that the agreement will further strengthen bilateral economic ties. From a humble beginning of $200…
Two victims of the Windrush scandal, one of them an Indian national, have lost court battles with the UK government over their level of compensation, the Independent reported. Surjit Kaur, who came to the UK from India as a 22-year-old in 1963, initiated legal action against the home office for…
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan was on Tuesday (9) arrested from outside the high court in Islamabad, the national capital, by Pakistan Rangers, the country's media reported. Khan, a cricketer-turned-politician who lost the prime minister's post in April last year, was taken into custody from the court premises in…