Tag: HinduIndias

Image used for representative purpose only | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The invitation from the Indian Embassy in the UAE to the acting Afghan Ambassador and Taliban envoy Badruddin Haqqani, for the Republic Day reception is “routine”, official sources said, reacting to criticism that the Modi government is ‘normalising’ ...

Radiation Detection Equipment will be installed in a drive-through monitoring station that monitors trucks and their cargo at the Integrated Check Posts and land ports. File picture shows the Petrapole Land Port. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Radiation Detection Equipment (RDE) will soon be installed at eight land crossing ...

A view of the Chenab Bridge as India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge on Anji river in Jammu and Kashmir. | Photo Credit: ANI After missing multiple deadlines, including those in 2017 and 2022, the project costing over ₹400 crore, India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge will be ready in May ...

G-20 delegates at a yoga session during their visit to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on November 26, 2022, on India’s invitation for a preview meeting ahead of its takeover of the G-20 presidency on December 1. | Photo Credit: PTI India’s G-20 plans will include a special focus ...

India has said its efforts to sanction perpetrators and facilitators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks have been blocked in the past for “political reasons” that enabled them to organise further cross-border assaults against the country, an apparent reference to China's repeated moves to block New Delhi's efforts to ...

What is the USCIRF? Which other countries have been labelled as a ‘Country of particular Concern’? What is the USCIRF? Which other countries have been labelled as a ‘Country of particular Concern’? The story so far: In its 2022 Annual report, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom ...

Sri Lankan FM Peiris in India on first visit since appointment, discussing bilateral issues Days after India announced a slew of measures to help Sri Lanka during its economic crisis, and the ExIm bank signed an agreement to provide a Line of Credit of $500 million, Sri Lankan Foreign ...

The pandemic also has its hidden victims — over 500 million children forced out of school globally and India accounted for more than half of them. The country is all set to usher in a ‘pandemic generation’, with 375 million children (from newborns to 14-year-olds) likely to suffer long-lasting ...

Over the past 30 years, health services have played a large role in saving millions of lives. India’s child mortality rate has declined substantially between 1990 and 2019 but the country, along with Nigeria, still accounted for almost a third of all under-five deaths last year, according to a ...