Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni have unveiled a sweeping road map to strengthen India–Italy ties, centred on a new Indo‑Mediterranean corridor and a €20 billion bilateral trade target by 2029. The blueprint positions India and Italy as connecting hubs between the Indo‑Pacific and...
Dubai/Washington - President Donald Trump's swift rejection of Iran's response to a U.S. peace proposal sent oil prices surging on Monday amid concerns the 10-week-old conflict will drag on, keeping shipping through the Strait...
New Delhi: Lieutenant General NS Raja Subramani (Retd), who is known within the military circles for being both a soldier-scholar and an operational man, has been appointed the new Chief of Defence Staff and...
New Delhi: India’s Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced this week that Formula 1 is poised to return to the country by 2027, though league officials were quick to dismiss the timeline as overly optimistic.
Mandaviya told...
India’s edible oil imports rose 3% in FY26, driven mainly by a sharp increase in duty-free shipments from Nepal under the South Asian Free Trade Area agreement. The rise highlights how trade flows...
India has relaxed its foreign investment rules for overseas companies that have up to 10% Chinese shareholding, making it easier for such firms to invest in the country. The change is aimed at...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading to Europe and Asia for a significant diplomatic trip that includes NATO Foreign Ministers meetings and his first official visit to India since taking office. The State Department confirmed Rubio will participate in NATO talks on Friday, May 22, 2026, in Helsingborg, Sweden, before traveling to India from May 23-26, 2026.
NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting in Sweden
The NATO Foreign Ministers gathering in Helsingborg will bring together alliance members to prepare for the upcoming NATO summit scheduled for July 2026 in Ankara, Turkey. This meeting comes at a critical time as European allies express concerns about US reliability under President Donald Trump's second...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading to Europe and Asia for a significant diplomatic trip that includes NATO Foreign Ministers meetings and his first official visit to India since taking office....
A Russian‑flagged liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker has successfully delivered a cargo from Russia’s Portovaya LNG plant to a terminal in China after nearly six months at sea. This unusual voyage highlights how...
On the outer wall of the Airavatesvara Temple in Tamil Nadu, a 12th-century stone carving shows a woman giving birth while standing upright, supported...
On April 7, Anthropic, the AI company behind the coding and productivity-focused Large Language Model (LLM) family Claude, announced Mythos. This is its most...
Sudan's devastating civil war has reached its fourth year, prompting a dire warning from the United Nations' top aid official. Denise Brown, UN Humanitarian...
In 2024 alone, the UN verified around 4,500 cases of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), though the real number is likely much higher. An overwhelming...
Gaza: On 4th January 2025, Israel has ordered the evacuation of two major hospitals in northern Gaza, the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital, as...