'Qatal ki raat': Modi declined Imran Khan's midnight call after Balakot

In the aftermath of India's Balakot strikes, several countries offered to send special envoys and China too suggested that it could send its deputy minister to both countries to seek de-escalation......

Centre Assesses Threats As Sea Piracy Surges

'Due to the Israel-Hamas conflict, a faction operating in the Red Sea -- which is a typically safe area - has been firing projectiles arbitrarily.''Additionally, there have been two incidents......

Jaishankar raises Khalistan issue with British leaders

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has raised India's long-standing concerns about pro-Khalistan extremism in the United Kingdom during his meetings with the country's leaders, stressing that......

Canada, allies gathered intel on Indian officials: Report

Canada's allegations of India's involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist in Surrey that sparked a diplomatic row between the two nations are based on both human and signals intelligence and......

Will RBI's rate cut force banks to lend?

'One way of doing this could be offering credit guarantee to the banks, say 10 per cent, for fresh loans given to micro, small and medium enterprises,' observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration:......

Markets pose smart recovery in late trades; Nifty ends above 7,850

Despite recovery in late trades, benchmark indices ended marginally lower amid weak global cues, with auto shares leading the decline on failing an international safety test. Prospects of higher......

Modi hard sells India as an investment destination

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India and the United Kingdom are economically made for each other and this relationship has to be driven by private sector CEOs. Top CEOs from India and the......

Another Indian quits Obama administration

Secunderabad-born Suresh Kumar, a former Doordarshan sports and news anchor over 30 years ago, who two years ago was appointed by President Obama to lead the Commerce Department's US and Foreign......

Major Ashish Malik: From patrolling in Imphal to silver lining in Jakarta

IMAGE: Indian Equestrian team won silver in the eventing category at the recently-concluded Asian Games. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters In the famous 19th century novel 'Black Beauty' by......