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NEW DELHI: The 21st India-Russia annual summit featuring PM Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin saw the 2 countries, while reaffirming commitment to the S-400 deal despite the threat of US sanctions, strongly take up the issue of cross-border terrorism with focus on ensuring Afghanistan wasn’t used for terrorist ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India on Monday for just his second overseas trip since the pandemic, seeking to bolster military and energy ties with a traditional ally being courted by Washington. In its efforts to address a rising China, Washington has set up the QUAD security dialogue ...

The unfortunate breakout of violence in Nagaland after a botched Army operation in which a number of villagers were killed casts a shadow over the Naga peace talks. It appears that specific intelligence inputs that the Army had received about a faction of the banned NSCN(K) was wrong. The ...

COLOMBO: The family of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, who was lynched by a mob in Pakistan over allegations of blasphemy, is anxiously waiting for his remains to be flown here today. In a shocking incident on Friday last, supporters of the hardline Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) ...

NEW DELHI: While bilateral ties with Pakistan remain in a deep freeze, India and Pakistan continue to engage under the banner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a Eurasian political and security grouping that is seen as playing an increasingly important role in Afghanistan after the US departure. In ...

Businessmen pose to put candles and rose petals next to the portrait of a Sri Lankan manager of a sports equipment factory, as they pay tribute to him outside the office of Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Sialkot, Pakistan (AP)LAHORE: Nearly all bones of Sri Lankan national ...

MUMBAI: Standing at five foot eight, Ajaz Patel now finds himself rubbing shoulders with the giants of the game. Ten wickets in an innings is a stuff of fantasy that has come true only twice before in the 144-year history of Test cricket. For a statistic-heavy sport that cricket ...

NEW DELHI: India on Saturday reported two more cases of the Omicron taking total number of cases in the country to four. The first two cases of Omicron were detected in Karnataka on Friday. While several states have tightened curbs amid growing concern of the Omicron variant, the Centre ...

NEW DELHI: Not too many Indian cricket fans would have known much about Ajaz Patel before the ongoing Test series vs New Zealand. But now his name has been firmly etched in the history books. The 33 year old took all 10 Indian wickets in the India first Innings. ...

NEW DELHI: It took India almost a year to get China out of three islands off Jaffna peninsula. In January 2021, India was surprised with an announcement that the Ceylon Electricity Board had decided to award a contract for building “hybrid renewable energy systems” in three islands off the ...