Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a red-carpet welcome as he arrived in Bhutan on Saturday on a two-day state visit during which he will hold talks with Bhutanese leaders to further deepen the bilateral ties. This is Modi’s second visit to Bhutan and the first since his re-election. Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering received Modi at the airport. Modi was ...
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China doing very poorly as a result of trade war: Trump
US President Donald Trump has said that China is doing very poorly as a result of the trade war and the “longer it goes on, the stronger we get”. Asserting that the United States is “having a very good discussion” on a trade deal with China, Trump told reporters at the Morristown airport in New Jersey that he will speak ...
Read More »No exchange of sweets along Indo-Pak border on Eid
The customary exchange of sweets between the BSF and Pakistan Rangers along the International Border did not take place on Monday on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, officials said. The unilateral withdrawal of diplomatic ties by Pakistan with India in the wake of the Modi government’s decision to revoke provisions of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir is being seen ...
Read More »PM Modi to address annual UN General Assembly session on Sept 28
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the annual UN General Assembly (UNGA) session on September 28, according to a provisional list released by the UN of the world leaders scheduled to speak at the 74th session of the United Nations. Modi is also expected to attend multiple high-level summits on the margins of the General Assembly session as well as ...
Read More »Air India to restart Delhi-Amritsar-Birmingham flight
The tri-weekly Delhi-Amritsar-Birmingham Air India flight would resume services on August 15, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday after Pakistan opened its airspace for civilian planes. Pakistan had shut its airspace in February after the Balakot strike by the Indian Air Force, resulting in a significant rise of Air India’s operating costs on flights connecting Delhi to ...
Read More »Pakistan opens airspace for all civilian traffic
Pakistan opened its airspace for all civilian traffic on Tuesday morning, sources said, effectively removing the ban on Indian flights that were not allowed to use majority of its airspace since the Balakot air strikes in February The move is expected to give a major relief to Air India, which suffered a huge financial loss of around Rs 491 crore ...
Read More »Trump accuses India of imposing tariffs on American products
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said India has long had a “field day” imposing tariffs on American products, which is “no longer acceptable” to the US. Trump’s terse comment came days after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28 where the two leaders aired their concerns over ...
Read More »Verdict on Kulbhushan Jadhav may be decided later this month
Result may come in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is in the International Court of Hague by July 17. Court can declare its decision at 6.30 in the evening. In a way, the eyes of everyone are on the issue of India versus Pakistan. This year, from 18 to 21 February, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ...
Read More »Trump visits North Korea in historic first
Donald Trump stepped onto North Korean soil in a historic first Sunday as he met Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un in a moment of high diplomatic drama on the world’s last Cold War frontier. Moments after becoming the only sitting US president to set foot inside North Korea, Trump brought Kim back over the dividing line for a meeting where ...
Read More »Trump to meet Modi, Xi on sidelines of G-20 summit in Japan
US President Donald Trump will hold a number of meetings with world leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of G-20 meeting in Japan this week and is expected to discuss several issues, including trade. Trump is scheduled to leave for Japan on June 27 to attend the two-day summit meeting of G-20 ...
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