German Chancellor Angela Merkel will arrive here on Thursday with a delegation from 12 ministries and hold discussions on various bilateral topics with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, German envoy Walter J Lindner said. Sources said India and Germany are expected to sign about 20 agreements in a wi

An Islamic State (IS) insider played a major role in the US operation that resulted in the death of terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The informer, a man of unknown nationality, provided detailed information about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout, the Daily Mail reported, citing a US daily.

Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Sunday rejected the latest political maps issued by India, which showed the entire Kashmir region as its part, calling them “incorrect and legally untenable”. Indian on Saturday released fresh maps of newly created Union Territories (UTs) of Jammu and Kashmir

Anti-government protesters attacked the Hong Kong office of China’s official news agency in a show of anger against Beijing after chaos broke out downtown on Saturday, with police firing tear gas to repel gasoline bombs. Streets in the upscale Causeway Bay shopping area and nearby Victoria Park w

The Islamic State on Saturday claimed responsibility for a devastating raid that killed 49 Malian troops as well as a blast that led to the death of a French soldier who became the latest casualty in the conflict-torn region. The strikes underscored the fragility of an area straddling several Wes

The United Nations Security Council will not discuss the Kashmir matter this month, according to Karen Pierce, the permanent representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, and president of the UN Security Council for the month of November, PTI reported on Saturday. “No, we don’t have

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded that a bilateral consular access agreement between India and Pakistan did not exclude the applicability of the Vienna Convention in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, ICJ president Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf has said. Addressing the UN General Assembly on

The Kartarpur Corridor will connect the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India’s Punjab with Darbar Sahib at Pakistan’s Kartarpur Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday announced that Sikh pilgrims from India would not need a passport to travel to Kartarpur and no fee would be charged fr

Islamabad: At least 73 people were killed and dozens wounded after a passenger train erupted in flames in central Pakistan on Thursday, a provincial minister said. Television footage showed flames pouring out of the carriages as people could be heard crying in the incident near Rahim Yar Khan dis

Pakistan on Wednesday issued a commemorative coin to mark Guru Nanak's 550th birth anniversary in November. In a Facebook post, Prime Minister Imran Khan shared a picture of the coin. "Pakistan issues commemorative coin to mark the 550th anniversary of Guru Nanak Devji," Khan said in the post.

A Nepali mountaineer has created history by scaling the world's 14 highest peaks in a record 190 days after he climbed Mt Shishapangma in China on Tuesday. Nirmal Purja, 36, known as Nims, broke the previous record of a South Korean climber, Kim Chang-ho, who achieved the feat in 2003 to scale al

A group of Sikh devotees from India, part of a religious procession, on Monday started off their spiritual journey from Delhi to Nankana Sahib in Pakistan, the birthplace of founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak Dev, the High Commission here said. The ‘Nagar Kirtan’ (procession) is led by Sardar Paramjit

Prince Charles, the next head of the Commonwealth and heir to the British throne, will make an official two-day visit to India from November 13 with a focus on climate change, sustainable markets and social finance, officials said on Monday. Prince Charles last visited India in November 2017 to p

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was believed to have been killed in a U.S. military operation in Syria, sources in Syria, Iraq and Iran said on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump prepared to make a “major statement” at the White House. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anony

Islamabad: Pakistan on Saturday said it has denied India's request to allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi's VVIP flight to fly through its airspace for his upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, citing the "ongoing grave human rights violations" in Jammu and Kashmir. The decision came with tensions simmerin

A top Pakistani court on Friday granted bail to jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif who is undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with an acute immune disorder which reduced his blood platelet count to dangerous levels. The 69-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo was ru

One of the victims may be from Vietnam The police investigating the deaths of 39 people in a truck near London said they had arrested three more suspects on Friday on suspicion of human trafficking amid signs that some of the dead may be Vietnamese. As forensic experts began the proc

NEW DELHI: A key Indo-US project aimed at sharing technology for building fighter jet engines has been ‘suspended’ after the two sides could not come to an agreement on specifics, with a lack of initiative from the industry. India and the US have now identified new technologies for joint developm