Greece will plant 150 trees in capital Athens to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birthday. The decision was taken after a meeting between Greek Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas and Indian Ambassador to Greece, Amrit Lugun. In…
India Seychelles high-level meet today, Modi to inaugurate…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan will hold a high-level virtual meet today and jointly inaugurate a number of Indian projects in the east African island nation. This will be Modi's first…
Taiwan firms hoist up flags, symbols after anti-China…
The Taiwanese mission in Myanmar has advised its companies to fly the Taiwan flag atop its buildings to ensure that their property is not mistaken for Chinese factories. It has also told the companies to…
France joins anti-China coalition, sends nuclear submarine to…
Last week France put a nuclear submarine in the contested waters of the South China Sea, joining countries like the US, Australia, and Japan to confront the Chinese challenge in the Indo-Pacific region. French Defence…
Iconic photos from the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
The 1971 Indo-Pak war started after the Pakistani Air Force launched strikes on 11 Indian airbases on 3 December 1971. For India, this was a two-front war as its forces were arrayed on the Western…
‘Operation Trident’—the audacious attack on Karachi harbour on…
India celebrates the Indian Navy Day every year on December 4 to commemorate Operation Trident under which the Indian Navy executed a lethal attack on the Karachi harbour during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. India carried…
Tibetans in crosshairs of Xi’s assault on minorities…
Chinese President Xi Jinping is relying on the United Front Work Department (UFWD)—a Mao-era contraption—to tighten his totalitarian grip on China’s society and economy. On September 16, Xi told the inaugural UFWD conference for private…
Six years later, Yazidi genocide fades away from…
While the Turks are celebrating the conversion of the ancient Hagia Sophia church into a mosque and the British debating whether 20-year-old Islamic State (ISIS) bride Shamima Begum should be allowed back in Britain, the…
Suitable boy Bangladesh being wooed by India, China,…
In the last few weeks, India's eastern neighbor is being wooed by not just China but Pakistan also, even as India is mending its relations after last year's downswing owing to the controversy over the…
Myanmar moves closer to India as China threatens…
When Myanmar General Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of the Myanmar military, mentioned to journalists last month in faraway Russia that there should be stronger international cooperation to fight terrorism, many were taken aback by…