Russian President Vladimir Putin's highly-anticipated visit presents New Delhi with a golden opportunity to further strengthen its defence and strategic ties with Russia, including making a bid to acquire the Sukhoi Su-57 5th-gen fighter jet to upgrade IAF's aging fleet.
Pakistan’s incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan has said that economic progress can never happen as long as the current “fascist system” is in place and warned that there is a plan to impose a “10-year dictatorship” in Pakistan.
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Global media reports on how row over H-1B programme in US is causing anxiety among Indians keen on achieving the American dream. The visa offers a pathway to permanent residency.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cast himself as more willing to take on India’s enemies beyond its borders than any other leader since independence.
The Taliban's foreign office said they saw India as a "significant regional and economic partner" after meeting with its most senior foreign ministry official, the highest level talks with Delhi since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.
India and Afghanistan held their first high-level interaction with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri meeting Afghan Taliban's acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai. For Pakistan, this comes as a shocker as it has always considered Kabul its 'satellite state'.
India has invited Pakistan and Bangladesh, among other neighbouring countries to participate in an 'undivided India' seminar being organised in New Delhi.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) will celebrate its 150th anniversary this year. To mark the event, the Indian government has invited countries that were part of undivided India when the IMD was established in 1875. These countries include Pakistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Bhutan, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
India is yet to officially recognise the Taliban government but forging strong ties with Afghanistan seem to be the way forward, considering their common regional rival Pakistan. Both sides reviewed the security situaton in the region, with Misri saying New Delhi was ready to expand ties with Kabul in political and economic fields.
Although India and Pakistan have long used militant groups to sow chaos in each other’s country, India’s intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has since 2021 deployed a ...
Ashish Shelar, the previous BCCI treasurer was recently elected as the Member of Legislative Assembly after the recently concluded Maharashtra elections, as a part of the Mahayuti alliance comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and the Shiv Sena. (ANI)