New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) India and Ethiopia on Wednesday discussed ways to further strengthen defence cooperation, including training, defence industry collaboration and UN Peacekeeping operations.
Colombo, Sep 2 (IANS) India’s democratic achievement lies not merely in conducting elections on an extraordinary scale, but in the sustained effort to make the electoral process "accessible, auditable, technology-enabled and participatory". The evolution of India’s electoral democracy is ultimately a story of scale coupled with institutional adaptation, a report has stated.
Kathmandu, Sep 2 (IANS) Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Wednesday called for stronger international attention to growing climate-related risks in the Himalayan region as the death toll from devastating floods in the Bhotekoshi River crossed 1,100.
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) BJP and Samajwadi Party leaders on Wednesday criticised the Pakistan Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for sharing an edited photograph of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting, that left out Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders, calling it a "cheap and disgraceful act".
Asheville, Sep 2 (IANS) World Bank President Ajay Banga has identified infrastructure, agriculture, primary healthcare, tourism and value-added manufacturing as five sectors that could create large numbers of jobs in India, particularly through micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
Dhaka, Sep 2 (IANS) India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Dinesh Trivedi, held separate meetings with Bangladesh's Speaker of the National Parliament, Hafiz Uddin Ahmad, and Deputy Speaker Kayser Kamal on Wednesday at the Parliament in Dhaka.
Tehran, Sep 2 (IANS) Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday claimed that it carried out attacks on the US Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait, a military camp housing US Marines in Jordan and destroyed a US surveillance balloon control system at an American base in Iraq, local media reported.
Islamabad, Sep 2 (IANS) Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's sisters were once again not allowed to meet him at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. The family of Imran Khan's wife, Bushra Bibi, was also not allowed to meet her, local media reported on Wednesday.
Belgrade, Sep 2 (IANS) Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju held a series of bilateral meetings with leaders from several nations on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Belgrade.
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) India's national security planners are preparing to establish a unified intelligence grid to enhance operational capabilities and counter multi-front security threats posed by foreign adversaries, senior officials have said.
