NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has landed in India, the first leg of a five-day Asia trip aimed at strengthening strategic ties in the face of growing Chinese influence in the region. Pompeo is due to meet India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar later on Monday. On Tuesday, ...
Read More »India great Kapil Dev stable after angioplasty
NEW DELHI: Cricket great Kapil Dev, who captained India to their 1983 World Cup triumph, is stable after undergoing an emergency coronary angioplasty having suffered chest pain, according to a hospital statement. The 61-year-old former India captain was admitted after midnight at the Delhi hospital and underwent the procedure in ...
Read More »Floods kill 60 in India, damage crops
MUMBAI: Floods brought by heavy rains and overflowing rivers across large swathes of western and southern India have killed at least 60 people since Wednesday and damaged rice, cotton and other crops worth billions of rupees, officials said. The worst affected state was Telangana, where excessive unseasonal rainfall on Wednesday ...
Read More »Bollywood Star Akshay Kumar Drinks Cow Urine Daily
BOLLYWOOD star Akshay Kumar has revealed that he drinks cow urine daily, joining a growing number of Indians who believe it has medicinal benefits – including against the coronavirus. Kumar is considered a staunch supporter of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, which has earmarked millions of Dollars for ...
Read More »India behind high-profile terrorist attacks in Pakistan
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: National Security Advisor to Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mooed Yusuf revealed that India was involved in at least four high-profile terrorist attacks in Pakistan, saying that Islamabad had “proof to the T” of New Delhi’s involvement. In an interview to veteran Indian journalist Karan Thapar for The Wire, Yusuf said ...
Read More »Indian Defence Minister accused Pakistan, China creating border dispute with India ‘under a mission’
NEW DELHI: Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh accused Pakistan and China of raising tensions at its northern and eastern borders “under a mission”. The minister made this statement while he was virtually inaugurating a raft of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) projects. “You are well aware of the conditions created on ...
Read More »At UN, Pakistani leader calls India a sponsor of hate
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday assailed India’s Hindu nationalist government and its moves to cement control of Muslim-majority Kashmir, calling India a state sponsor of hatred and prejudice against Islam. Khan said at the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders that Islamophobia rules India and threatens the ...
Read More »‘India’s silver imports may dip to lowest level in eight years’
India’s silver imports are likely to fall by more than 40 per cent from a year ago to the lowest level in eight years, with investors booking profit by selling stocks after local prices rallied to a record high this month, leading importers said. Lower imports by the world’s biggest ...
Read More »More than a dozen killed in ‘devastating’ India plane crash
KOZHIKODE: The black box of Air India flight IX-1344 that crashed in Kerala killing at least 18 people has been recovered, the Indian aviation minister said. The plane carrying 190 people crash-landed during bad weather night and tore in two, injuring scores of passengers. The Boeing 737, on a special ...
Read More »Pakistan unveils new map, claims all of Kashmir
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI: The government of Pakistan has exercised its executive authority by formally laying claim to the disputed Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir in a new political map, experts said on Wednesday, adding that the move was in line with the country’s decades-old position on Kashmir since it had ...
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