- 27 Sep 2023
The Indian High Commission in the Maldives claims that some local media outlets have been disseminating "fake reports" with the aim of intimidating and harassing mission representatives and the expatriate population there
WASHINGTON: Former State Department official Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir has been picked by President Joe Biden to serve as Ambassador to Indonesia. Kamala has served in the Department of State for almost 30 years, most recently as an executive secretary.
New Jersey: The first Sikh mayor in the US, Ravinder S Bhalla, claims to have received a string of death threats addressed to him and his family. Speaking to the media, he claimed that the letters he received in the mail initially requested...
Islamabad: Pakistan’s former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived home on Saturday, ending a four-year self-imposed exile in London and restarting his political journey ahead of the general elections with a huge rally at Minar-e-Pakistan...
Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend SCO foreign ministers meet which India is hosting in Goa on May 5.The Indian administration didn't explicitly rule out a meeting between S Jaishankar and Bilawal, but it didn't seem...
Tens of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh's largest opposition group have assembled in Dhaka to oppose the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led administration and call for fresh elections.
Dhaka: A temple, shops and several houses of the Hindu community have been vandalised in southwestern Bangladesh by some unidentified people over a Facebook post allegedly belittling Islam, in the latest spate of violence targeting the religious...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the celebration of International Yoga Day at the United Nations in New York and urged people "to join hands together to realise the goal of one earth, one family, one future"
Recently appointed Indian-American Chief of Staff to Acting Defence Secretary speaks about 9/11, Kashmir, safeguarding regional security in the Indian Ocean through the Quad and the UK-USA special relationship.
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system that creates unstable governments “constantly under the influence of extremism”.
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in tatters.
Kathmandu: Nepal’s PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is likely to travel to India on an official visit next month - his first foreign trip since assuming the office for the third time in December last year, a media report said.
Kathmandu: The top leaders of Nepal’s five-party ruling coalition on Monday met at PM Sher Bahadur Deuba’s official residence to review the general elections and discuss the formation of a new government.
Rakesh Patel, a 47-year-old commodity trader took a plunge to visit Greenland. Speaking to Asian Voice, he said, “Over a hundred years ago, our grandparents emigrated from India to Africa in search of a better life. In 1972, our parents had...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a grand welcome by the diaspora in Germany, on his three-nation Europe trip.
The Indian High Commission in the Maldives claims that some local media outlets have been disseminating "fake reports" with the aim of intimidating and harassing mission representatives and the expatriate population there
India's external affairs minister S Jaishankar addressed the 78th United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday and said that the global organisation must aim to make the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) 'more contemporary'
A tragic and unsettling incident has sent shockwaves through the South Asian community globally, when the story of a 23-year-old Indian student who was...
At the East Asia Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised the need for an Indo-Pacific region where international law, including the UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea), was equally applicable to all countries, where there was...
Six more nations have been asked to join the BRICS group of countries, which has promised to support the "Global South".
For attempting to give material assistance to ISIS, a Pakistani doctor who was residing in the US was given an 18-year prison term
A US court has rejected the "writ of habeas corpus" filed by Tahawwur Rana, a suspect in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, challenging his extradition to India
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Central Bank of the UAE decided to advance their economic cooperation by allowing exporters and importers from either side to invoice and pay in their respective domestic currencies, the rupee and the...
The history of the relationship between France and India is extensive and has been progressively improving in recent years. India and France have collaborated...