Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra met his counterparts from France and UAE in Paris earlier this week, taking forward the India-France-UAE trilateral dialogue amidst fast-changing global developments. A sign of India’s fleet-footed diplomacy in…
Germany has appointed local businessman Mir Murad Baloch as its honorary consul general for Balochistan. The German Ambassador to Pakistan, Alfred Grannas announced the appointment of Murad Baloch as an envoy for Balochistan through a…
Global online retailer, Amazon is selling burqas which has raised a storm on social media. The burqas it is selling are the ones that Afghan women wear, a head-to-toe covering with a wire-mesh for the…
India and Bangladesh need to explore the possibility of making a trilateral partnership with Japan. The two South Asian neighbours should also look at making Bangladesh a gateway to link South Asia and South-East Asia,…
COP15 – the UN’s biodiversity summit to halt ecological destruction and biodiversity loss begins today in Montreal, Canada. It was supposed to be held in Kunming, China, but was postponed due to the spread of…
India’s top environmental science practitioners say the world has to do more to prevent a climate catastrophe. Chetan Singh Solanki, IITB professor, says that carbon dioxide once released into the atmosphere remains there for 300…
A joint counter-terror operation is underway in the Maldives where the Maldives police and the defence forces have arrested 13 people. The operation was launched on Saturday. The Maldivian media has reported that nine people…
India’s Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav today released the country’s long term low emission development strategy to tackle the climate change crisis. It seeks to balance the use of natural resources while providing energy security to…
The Islamic Ministry of the Maldivian government has filed a case against Indian construction company AFCONS Infrastructure with the Maldives Police for performing the inauguration ceremony of road construction according to Hindu rituals. The ceremony,…
The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will decide this week whether Pakistan should be kept in its “grey list” for further monitoring of its terror-promoting activities. The FATF meeting is being held in Singapore…