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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 ...

Following the Pulwama terror attack, India Friday withdrew the ‘most-favoured nation’ status to Pakistan, a move which would impact USD 488.5 million worth of goods that the neighbouring country exports to India. After the withdrawal of most-favoured nation (MFN) status, India can raise customs duties on several goods being imported from Pakistan. The main items which India imports include fresh ...

India and China are leading the global greening effort, which is quite contrary to the general perception worldwide, a latest NASA study said Monday, observing that the world is a greener place than it was 20 years ago. The NASA study based on data received and analysed from its satellite said that India and China are leading in greening on ...

The Parliamentary panel on Information Technology has summoned the head of microblogging site Twitter to appear before it on February 25, the committee’s chairman Anurag Thakur said on Monday. Committee members took a serious note about the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey not appearing before it on Monday. While representatives from Twitter’s India office reached the meeting venue here, they were ...

Trade relations between India and the UK is not likely to be affected after Brexit, British trade commissioner to South Asia Crispin Simon has said. “Bilateral trade between Britain and India stands at USD 25 billion. India is an important trading partner and after Brexit, it is not to be affected”, Simon told PTI. Britain had been allowed to establish ...

Senior officials from Nepal and India met on Thursday in Pokhara to review the trade treaty between the two neighbours. The Indian delegation is led by Bhupinder Singh Bhalla, Joint Secretary (South Asia), Department of Commerce, while Ravi Shankar Saiju, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies is leading the Nepalese delegation during the two day meeting. This is ...