Ottawa, Oct 11 (IANS) Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand will embark on a diplomatic tour of India, Singapore, and China from October 12 to 17 (Canadian time) to advance cooperation and strengthen bilateral relations under Canada's Indo-Pacific Strategy, the government said on Saturday.
United Nations, Oct 11 (IANS) India has questioned the credibility of a UN panel which prepared a report on discrimination against women claiming falsely that women community health workers in India do not get social security benefits.
Washington, Oct 11 (IANS) Congressman Ami Bera, a Democratic House member from California, has argued that it’s time for the US Congress to “stand together” to defend the “hugely important” India-US relationship.
Washington, Oct 11 (IANS) In an exclusive interview with IANS, US Representative Ami Bera advised against President Donald Trump’s threats of escalating US–China trade confrontation. He cautioned that a tariff war would ultimately “hurt the American consumer” and urged the White House to resume diplomacy rather than ramp up economic hostilities.
New York, Oct 10 (IANS) US President Donald Trump may not have received the Nobel Peace Prize this year, but the winner, an ally from Venezuela, dedicated the award to him on Friday.
Bonn, Oct 10 (IANS) The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Friday declared the slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) Hours after the Nobel Committee ignored US President Donald Trump’s candidature for the peace prize and awarded it to Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, Steven Cheung, Assistant to the President and White House Director of Communications, accused the Committee of placing “politics over peace.”
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) Sergio Gor, the new US ambassador to India, is on a 4-day visit to the country from October 9-14.
Dhaka, Oct 10 (IANS) The recent meeting between the Ambassadors of Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands with Awami League leader Saber Hossain Chowdhury, a former Minister in the Sheikh Hasina government, comes in the wake of remarks by several British lawmakers calling for the restoration of the rule of law in Bangladesh, a report said on Friday.
Islamabad, Oct 10 (IANS) Pakistan, under its Army Chief Asim Munir, has institutionalised a policy of exporting fear through which journalists are killed or silenced, party workers harassed abroad, families punished at home, and generals issue threats overseas with impunity, a report has cited.
