Washington: The US on Tuesday (local-time) emphasised that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is a grouping of important friends and allies of Washington that is predicated on shared interests, ahead of first-ever leader level meet scheduled on coming Friday. Replying to a

New Delhi: Amid crackdown on illegal residents in the country the Union Home Ministry in a written reply in Rajya Sabha informed the house that more than 3,000 people were apprehended trying to illegally enter into India in past two years. The MHA said: "116 nationals from

New Delhi: Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she was attacked today while in Nandigram, where she had gone to file her nomination for the coming elections. The Chief Minister said she was attacked by four or five people at a time when there was no police officer around her.

Police officers from Myanmar have told the BBC they fled across the border into India after refusing to carry out the orders of the military which seized power in a coup last month. In some of the first such interviews, more than a dozen defectors told us they escaped, fearing they'd

Geneva: An exiled Kashmiri leader has lambasted Islamabad for using Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan as its colonies for over seven decades and exploiting its natural resources. Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, the chairman of the United Kashmir People's National

New Delhi: Ahead of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) head of states meet, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga had a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier today. The conversation lasted for forty minutes. The two leaders shared the recognition that

London: India on Tuesday called the UK Westminster discussion on press freedom and farmers' stir as "one-sided and based on false assertions". The High Commission of India asserted that the question of lack of press freedom in India does not arise as the foreign media,

The ceasefire that India and Pakistan announced through their first joint statement in several years on 22 February gave the impression of having come out of the blue. But that is exactly how it should have been, given the highly charged emotions that prevail in the two countries

GENEVA: At least a dozen people and possibly up to 23 have been killed in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province where Revolutionary Guards and security forces have used lethal force against fuel couriers from ethnic minorities and protesters, the United Nations said on Friday. Iran

People gathered outside the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver on March 7 to protest against China on several issues. The protest was organized by 'Friends of Canada India' along with Canada Tibet Canada, East Turkistan Association of Canada, Friends of Canada India Organization,

Dozens of Myanmar protesters who had been cornered overnight by security forces in Yangon have escaped from the area where they were trapped. About 200 people were caught in a four-street area in Sanchaung district which the police sealed off. At least 40 people were arrested and

BEIJING: Indian Ambassador to China Vikram Misri on Friday met Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui in Beijing, who was Chinese envoy to India during the Doklam crisis, and emphasised the importance of completing the disengagement of troops from the remaining areas in eastern Ladakh, saying

As China prepares to alter Hong Kong's electoral system, the United States has condemned the continued assaults on the city's democratic institutions. Speaking at the regular press briefing, US Department of State spokesperson Ned Price on Friday (local time) said that bringing

Renowned Pakistani televangelist, Islamic scholar, and member of the National Assembly Aamir Liaquat Husain last week took a jab against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Sharif by mocking a Hindu deity on Twitter. The National Assembly member from the ruling

Pope Francis is visiting parts of northern Iraq that were held by Islamic State (IS) militants on the third day of his historic trip to the country. IS seized the region in 2014, targeting Christians and other minorities. Christians have been returning since IS was defeated in 2017.

Myanmar has asked neighbouring India to return several police officers who crossed the border seeking refuge after refusing to carry out orders. Indian officials said the officers and their families had crossed the border in recent days. In a letter, Myanmar authorities asked for

The United States Speaker Nancy Pelosi has expressed solidarity with the Uyghur community amid the ongoing human rights abuse in China and affirmed her view that the United States has an “obligation to address the genocide”. “If we don’t speak out clearly for

New York: Indian-American Naureen Hassan, a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry, has been named as the First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Bank said that the appointment

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the military and police forces to “finish off” and “kill” all communist rebels in the country, prompting fears that it could unleash a new wave of bloodshed similar to his deadly war on drugs. “I’ve

The United Nations special envoy on Myanmar called on the UN Security Council to take action against the ruling junta after the killings of protesters who have continued to defy security forces at demonstrations against last month's coup. The South-east Asian country has been