In a bid to prepare the groundwork for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Uzbekistan in September this year, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is travelling to Tashkent for two days, beginning Thursday, to attend a foreign ministers’ meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi,Read More →
Pakistan has objected to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kashmir and laying of foundation stones for the construction of the Rattle and Kwar hydroelectric projects on the Chenab river, which it claimed was a “direct contravention” of the Indus Waters Treaty. Prime Minister Modi visited Jammu and Kashmir onRead More →
After the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police, the Indian Army’s Srinagar-based Chinar Corps on Friday posted a video on its social media handles titled “Kashmir fights back”, which, a senior security establishment officer said, seeks to underline how “terrorism has affected all peace-loving citizens of Kashmir, irrespective of their faith”.Read More →
India and the US have asked Pakistan to take “immediate, sustained, and irreversible action” to ensure that no territory under its control is used for terrorist attacks and called for the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attack and Pathankot attack to be brought to justice. The demand for action byRead More →
Pakistan Thursday claimed an unarmed Indian supersonic missile took off from Sirsa and landed at a place 124 km within Pakistani territory on Wednesday evening. The missile, it said, was cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet and endangered passenger flights in both Indian and Pakistani airspace, and also civiliansRead More →
Four-and-a-half months after India proposed to Pakistan that it wants to send wheat for the people of Afghanistan, the first consignment of about 2,000 metric tonnes of the grain, laden in about 50 trucks, will roll out on Tuesday. They will be taken to Afghanistan overland through Pakistan in AfghanRead More →
Some terrorist groups have made a “mockery” of the UN Security Council’s sanction regimes by taking full advantage of carve-outs given for humanitarian purposes, India said as it made a veiled reference to Pakistan, saying proscribed terrorist groups in the neighbourhood have re-branded themselves as humanitarian organisations to evade sanctions.Read More →
India has already witnessed “trailers” of what conflict in the future will look like, along the country’s unsettled and active border, Indian Army Chief General M M Naravane said on Thursday. He said India faces “unique, substantial and multi-domain challenges” and “disputed borders with nuclear neighbours, coupled with state-sponsored proxyRead More →
