Category: spotlight
Indian Embassy in Beijing thanks China for reopening border crossings for Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims
Beijing: India on Thursday thanked Chinese authorities for their prompt assistance, ensuring a smooth journey for Kailash Mansarovar devotees after the Indian Embassy in China [Read More…]
Rapper to mayor & now Nepal’s next hope? Balendra Shah is youth favourite amid national crisis
Kathmandu: After K.P. Sharma Oli’s resignation as Nepal Prime Minister, one name keeps coming up to fill the power vacuum—that of Balendra Shah or Balen, [Read More…]
India-US ties begin to thaw after weeks of fury. Trump says trade talks underway, Modi responds
New Delhi: After weeks of simmering diplomatic tensions between India and the US over Donald Trump’s claim of brokering India-Pakistan ceasefire and tariffs on Indian [Read More…]
‘All India can do is manage few hundred thousand X propagandists to jerk around a poll’—Navarro at it again
New Delhi: Peter Navarro, senior trade adviser to US President Donald Trump, is having a meltdown on popular social media platform ‘X’ after his posts were [Read More…]
Bangladeshi hilsa is coming to India ahead of Durga Puja, as a ‘mark of enduring friendship’
New Delhi: Bangladesh Monday announced it has decided to export hilsa fish to India ahead of the Durga Puja festive season as a mark of “enduring Bangladesh-India friendship”. [Read More…]
Deepfake ‘diplomacy’: Burkina Faso President signs $14 bn India deal, slams Trump—in AI fantasy world
New Delhi: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated video of Burkina Faso’s transitional President Ibrahim Traoré claiming that he has sealed a $14 billion grain deal with India, as [Read More…]
Sikh separatists in Canada ‘solicit donations, abuse non-profits’ to raise funds—Canadian govt report
New Delhi: Sikh separatists in Canada have been “observed” as receiving financing from the country, including by soliciting donations from the Indian community in the [Read More…]
No mention of Modi in UNGA provisional speakers’ list, India likely to be represented by minister
New Delhi: The revised provisional list of speakers for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) published Friday does not mention an address by Prime Minister [Read More…]
Bangladesh former top cop says Hasina ordered shooting, apologises to nation
New Delhi: In a dramatic reversal, Bangladesh’s former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has become a state witness against ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina, placing full [Read More…]
Centre says ‘India growth story intact’ as Singapore looks to expand economic ties amid global headwinds
New Delhi: The Indian “growth story” is intact, Ministry of External Affairs’ Secretary (East) P Kumaran said Thursday, adding that this was evident from Singapore’s [Read More…]
