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China, the second most spender on defense after the US, declared its defense budget this year at 177.61 billion dollars, with an increase of 7.5 percent. This huge amount is three times more than India’s defense budget. According to a draft budget presented on Tuesday on the first day of the annual session of the National People’s Congress of China’s ...

Under the aegis of the Laureates and Leaders for Children platform, Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, 66 Nobel Laureates have urged the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan to defuse the rising tension before it escalates to a full-fledged war between the two nuclear states. The joint letter has been submitted to the ...

After launching a proposal to ban Masood Azhar, the terrorist organization of Jaish-e-Mohammad, France has now reiterated the support of India’s permanent membership in the UN Security Council. It said that the expansion of the Security Council is necessary. India has long been seeking reforms in the United Nations Security Council in collaboration with Brazil, Germany and Japan, and insists ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the return of Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthman from captivity in Pakistan and called on the two countries to sustain the “positive momentum” and engage in further constructive dialogue. The IAF Wing Commander returned to India from Pakistan on Friday to a hero’s welcome, nearly 60 hours after he was captured following a ...

The nuclear summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in Hanoi ended without an agreement Thursday, the White House said after the two leaders cut short their discussions. They had “very good and constructive meetings” and “discussed various ways to advance denuclearisation and economic driven concepts”, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. But ...

The Delhi-Lahore bus service is running as usual, an official said Wednesday. “The service is continuing. Even today, 10 persons boarded the Lahore-bound bus,” Manoj Kumar, the managing director of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), told PTI. In the aftermath of the Pulwama attack, the bus service was affected and the number of passengers using it had gone down. The ...

Combat jets of the Indian Air Force bombed terror camps at multiple locations across the Line of Control on the Pakistani side in a pre-dawn strike on Tuesday, 12 days after the Pakistan-based terror group, Jaish-e-Mohammed carried, out the Pulwama attack in Kashmir, government sources said. They said the Mirage 2000 fighter jets pounded JeM terror camps in Balakot, Muzaffarabad ...

The powerful UN Security Council has strongly condemned the “heinous and cowardly” Pulwama terror attack by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed and underlined the need to hold perpetrators of these “reprehensible acts” of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice. Forty Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in a suicide attack by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on ...

The talks between the US and China to end a damaging trade war will resume from Tuesday in Washington, the White House has announced. The talks follow a round of negotiations that ended last week in Beijing without a deal but which officials said had generated progress on contentious issues between the two trading partners. The talks are aimed at ...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan issued a statement on the issue of terror attack on February 14 in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. In his statement, he has indirectly warned Indiaby saying that “if we were attacked, then Pakistan would give an open answer.” Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the Government of India is accusing Pakistan without any evidence ...