Prince Rahim Aga Khan V arrives in India for week-long visit

IANS | September 10, 2026 12:02 AM

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) Prince Rahim Aga Khan V, the 50th hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and Chair of the Aga Khan Development Network, arrived in India on a seven-day visit at the invitation of Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan.

Ukraine peace roadmap possible in weeks: Rubio

IANS | September 9, 2026 11:56 PM

Washington, Sep 9 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said there is an opportunity to develop a roadmap within the next few weeks to restart negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, following substantive contacts in Kyiv and Moscow.

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.