Karachi, Feb 24: The intriguing story of how a "shy" teenage Pakistani girl travelled on her own to Bengaluru to meet and marry an Indian man was revealed by her uncle who said she sold her jewellery and borrowed money from friends to buy air tickets to Dubai and...
NEW DELHI: India was able to save more than 3.4 million lives by undertaking a nationwide Covid-19 vaccination campaign at an unprecedented scale, said a report by Stanford University. The Covid vaccination campaign also yielded a positive economic impact by preventing a loss of USD 18.3 billion, the working paper by Stanford...
BENGALURU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed hope that G20 will draw inspiration from the vibrancy of the Indian economy and work towards bringing back stability, confidence and growth on the global landscape. In his video message to the G20 meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors, the Prime Minister underlined...
NEW DELHI, Feb 24: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a case for strengthening multilateral development banks to meet the challenges facing the world, especially climate change. In his video address to the G20 meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors, Modi said it was imperative for...
United Nations, Feb 24: India abstained in the U.N. General Assembly on February 23 on a resolution that underscored the need to reach as soon as possible a “comprehensive, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine in line with the principles of the U.N. Charter. The 193-member General Assembly adopted the...
United Nations, Feb 24: India slammed Pakistan after it referred to Jammu and Kashmir during a special session on Ukraine in the UN General Assembly, terming the provocation as “regrettable and misplaced” and calling out Islamabad’s track record of harbouring and providing safe havens to terrorists with impunity. “I’m taking...
NEW DELHI, Feb 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the government is fully committed to sustainable development in the field of green energy. PM Modi was responding to a tweet by Union minister for heavy industries, Mahendra Nath Pandey which said that electric vehicles under the FAME ll...
Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar inaugurated Jammu and Kashmir’s first-ever International Education Fair in New Delhi on Tuesday. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State at PMO Jitendra Singh, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha also attended the event held at Sushma Swaraj Bhawan.   Speaking at the event...
India and Iraq on Monday discussed ways to further increase and diversify trade from oil to non-oil sectors, while stressing the importance of expanding economic partnership and technology engagement. The two sides held wide-ranging talks during the second round of the India-Iraq Foreign Office Consultations in Baghdad where the Indian delegation...
India and Italy are expected to put nearly a decade of tensions over the arrest of Italian marines and other issues firmly behind them with discussions about a bilateral defence cooperation that is likely to be announced during Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni’s visit to India.   Ms. Meloni, the far-right...