India hands over relief and rescue items to Nepal Minister

IANS | September 9, 2026 10:59 PM

Kathmandu, Sep 9 (IANS) Relief and rescue items, including materials for tunnel rescue and forensic supplies, sent by India were handed over to Mahabir Pun, Nepal's Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, on Wednesday.

Green cover, grey zone: China's Tibet build-up and flood it tried to hide

IANS | September 9, 2026 9:34 PM

Kathmandu, Sep 9 (IANS) On August 26, a glacier tore loose above the Nepal-Tibet border and sent a wall of ice, rock and water crashing down the Bhote Koshi valley. Within days, Nepal had counted over 1300 people dead and thousands still missing. China, governing the villages on the other side of the same disaster, had counted only a handful.

Expanded BRICS gives India greater diplomatic leverage, wider Global South reach: Report

IANS | September 9, 2026 8:46 PM

Stockholm, Sep 9 (IANS) With its expanding membership, BRICS could give greater weight to India’s preferred principles of strategic autonomy, multipolarity, sovereign equality, reformed multilateralism and stronger representation for the developing world. India, however, does not seek to replace the existing international order through BRICS, but to secure greater bargaining power within it, a report has stated.

India, Kuwait discuss cooperation to deepen strategic partnership

IANS | September 9, 2026 8:18 PM

Kuwait, Sep 9 (IANS) Aseem Mahajan, Additional Secretary (Gulf) at the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), on Wednesday met Kuwait's Assistant Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs Tahani Rashid Al-Nasser, holding discussions on a wide range of areas of cooperation to further deepen the strategic partnership.