Azerbaijan sees ties with India moving to ‘higher levels’

IANS | October 23, 2026 7:00 PM

Baku, Oct 23 (IANS) Describing External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar’s visit to Baku as “a very valuable meeting”, Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on Friday expressed confidence that country's relations with India were on the path to “higher levels” with growing opportunities in energy, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and transport corridors.

Border situation gets disturbed when Chinese forces diverge from established patrolling patterns: MEA

IANS | October 23, 2026 6:49 PM

New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday said that India and China continue to use existing diplomatic and military mechanisms to resolve outstanding issues and "avoid misunderstanding and miscalculation along the Line of Actual Control" (LAC) while emphasising that the situation in the India-China border areas gets disturbed when Chinese forces diverge from established patrolling patterns.

Number of loss-making firms in China surge amid demand slump

IANS | October 23, 2026 6:19 PM

New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) While China is flooding world markets with cheap goods, a growing number of Chinese factories have started running into losses, with London-based research firm Capital Economics estimating that the share of Chinese industrial firms that are losing money has doubled since 2018 to 30 per cent this year.