LADAKH SITUATION VERY SERIOUS, NEED ‘VERY, VERY DEEP’ POLI...
September 8 ,2020
Ahead of his expected talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Moscow, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said the...
1ST BATCH OF RUSSIAN VACCINE PRODUCED FOR CIVILIAN CIRCULA...
September 8 ,2020
In some good news for millions living in hope for a COVID-19 vaccine shot, the Russian health ministry said on Tuesday that the first b...
CHINA PASSED ‘EXTRAORDINARY, HISTORIC TEST’ WITH ITS HANDL...
September 8 ,2020
China has passed “an extraordinary and historic test” with its handling of the coronavirus, President Xi Jinping said Tuesd...
PLA MOVE IN LADAKH IS PART OF BEIJING PLAN TO DESTABILIZE...
September 8 ,2020
China’s moves in Ladakh and the South China Sea are based on a historical construct. If a Green Line crafted in 1960 by then para...
‘PLA TRIED TO CLOSE IN, FIRED SHOTS IN AIR’: INDIA REBUTS...
September 8 ,2020
India on Tuesday dismissed Chinese claims that Indian Army fired “warning shots” near the Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh, sa...
PAKISTAN APPOINTS NEW ENVOY TO KABUL AHEAD OF INTRA-AFGHAN...
September 8 ,2020
Pakistan has appointed Mansoor Ahmed Khan, a career diplomat, as the new ambassador to Kabul as crucial intra-Afghan talks are set to b...
POST-BREXIT ERA TO OPEN NEW TRADE VISTAS BETWEEN PAKISTAN,...
September 8 ,2020
The Pakistan-UK Business Council has expressed hope that post-Brexit era will open new opportunities of trade and investment between th...
1 TALIBAN KILLED, 2 WOUNDED IN KABUL CLASHES: MOD
September 8 ,2020
At least one Taliban was killed and two others were wounded in an attack on security checkpoints in Kabul province on Monday night, the...
MORNING BRIEF: TELE DIPLOMACY IN SOUTH ASIA IN THE TIME OF...
September 8 ,2020
Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Nepalese prime minister KP Sharma Oli
On September 1, Oli held another tele-talk with...
DISCARD ‘MARTIAL LAW’ FROM MILITARY LEXICON: PM SHEIKH HAS...
September 8 ,2020
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called for discarding "martial law word" from the "military lexicon" or terminology, saying that it (marti...
INDIAN ARMY ASKS CHINA'S PLA IF MISSING CIVILIANS IN THEIR...
September 8 ,2020
The Indian Army has asked its Chinese counterpart if five civilians who went missing from an eastern border state days ago were in thei...
SAUDI COURT SCRAPS 5 DEATH SENTENCES OVER KHASHOGGI MURDER...
September 8 ,2020
A Saudi court on Monday overturned five death sentences over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder in a final ruling that jailed eight de...
TALIBAN NEGOTIATING TEAM HOLDS FIRST MEETING
September 8 ,2020
The Taliban negotiating team held their first meeting on Sunday to discuss the peace talks with the Afghan government’s team in Q...
INDIA OVERTAKES BRAZIL FOR SECOND-MOST COVID CASES WITH MO...
September 8 ,2020
India, the world’s new Covid-19 epicenter, surpassed Brazil as the second-worst hit country. The country’s virus curve is s...
INDIA, BANGLADESH FOREIGN MINISTERS TO ‘MEET’ THIS MONTH A...
September 8 ,2020
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his counterpart in Bangladesh A.K. Abdul Momen will have a virtual meeting later this month...
US-China tensions intensify as Trump pursues financial dec...
September 8 ,2020
The administration of President Donald Trump is pressuring Chinese companies listed in the U.S. over non-compliance issues, threateni...
Malaysia: Anwar pans Muhyiddin’s coronavirus economic resc...
September 8 ,2020
Malaysia’s political turmoil remains at the forefront of the national consciousness, but Anwar Ibrahim is more concerned by the...
China-US tension: senior Chinese official urges renewed ta...
September 8 ,2020
Le Yucheng, vice-minister of foreign affairs, has written an article dismissing “some politicians in the US” for their pr...
China's new AWACS ready for South China Sea missions
September 8 ,2020
Airmen are boarding on a Y-8 aircraft for anti-submarine warfare patrol mission during a round-the-clock flight training exercise o...
Lanka’s 20th Constitutional Amendment bill triggers cheers...
September 8 ,2020
The all-powerful President Gotabaya.
Sri Lanka’s 20th Constitutional Amendment bill (20A) which was approved by the cabinet...
Where does IAF stand against PAF after 55 years of Indo-Pa...
September 8 ,2020
Pakistan observes its Air Force day on September 7, a day after the National Defence day. It marks 55 years of the India-Pakistan war f...
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