Singh, Gilani likely to meet during SAARC summit

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani are expected to meet in Thimphu on the margins of the South Asian Association Regional Cooperation Summit, during......

Indo-Pak spat renders SAARC summit tepid

There is a lot that the SAARC can do if only its two biggest countries, India and Pakistan, leave their disputes back home. Sheela Bhatt gauges the mood at the opening day of the regional summit in......

New Delhi to host SAARC summit in 2007

The 14th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit will be held in New Delhi on April 3 and 4, 2007. This was announced after a meeting of the SAARC foreign ministers in Dhaka on......

India protests Bangladesh govt aide's territorial claim

India has lodged a strong protest with Dhaka over a now-deleted social media post by a key aide of Bangladesh's interim government that claimed certain areas of Indian territory should be part of......

SAARC Summit in Bhutan to harp on climate change

Climate change will be the main theme of the upcoming South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit to be held in Bhutan where the member countries are expected to sign a convention on......

Safta: Panacea for South Asia

With the committee of experts of the SAARC Countries having resolved all the contentious issues during their meeting in Kathmandu from November 29 to December 1, the South Asia Free Trade Agreement......

India announces fund to combat climate change

India announced on Wednesday setting up of a fund that would help South Asia effectively meet urgent adaptation and capacity building needs posed by climate change and also proposed establishment......

Building Bridges in South Asia

"Building Bridges" was the theme of the recently concluded South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, or Saarc, summit in Addu (Maldives). The leaders agreed to give this shape by......