President Hassan Rouhani warned on Tuesday that Iran could abandon its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers within hours if the United States keeps on imposing new sanctions.
The Congress on Thursday sought to puncture claims on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's successful tour of the United States, saying the US Senate finally "exposed the hollowness and the falsity of the claims" made by Modi and his propagandists.
The AP government has named its new capital after the ancient Buddhist village of Amaravati in a bid to attract the nations in the Far East, but it has unwittingly drawn the attention of the media in Pakistan.
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India and US firm Westinghouse have agreed to begin engineering and site design work immediately for six nuclear power plant reactors in India and conclude contractual arrangements by June 2017, the White House said on Tuesday.
India on Thursday hit out at Pakistan, asking it to vacate the parts of Jammu and Kashmir which it has illegally occupied and to not needlessly internationalise the issue.
Touching on an issue that has for long agonized Muslims in India, Union minister for law and justice DV Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday said he is concerned about false terror charges slapped on Muslim youths that are followed by acquittals due to lack of evidence across the country. More importantly, he said legal reforms are in the pipeline to address such cases.
India is looking to boost its Act East Policy even as southeast Asia struggles to cope with festering maritime disputes in the region. While defence minister Manohar Parrikar will look to expound on how India views the regional security situation at the Shangri La Dialogue later this week, PM Narendra Modi is also hoping to host his Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong in September this year.
Two years into its term, the Narendra Modi government has been rated by 62 per cent of metropolitan Indians as having done a good or very good job in a survey done exclusively for TOI. That's a touch lower than the 67 per cent who voiced the same opinion a year ago.
Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district has the highest relative proportion of tobacco-related cancers (TRCs) for both men and women in the country, the latest National Cancer Registry Programme ( NCRP ) data shows.
President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Guanzhou on Tuesday, on a four-day visit to China. The visit will see significant political and economic push to bilateral ties while irritants like Beijing's opposition to India's membership of NSG and the blocking of UN bid to blacklist JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist will also figure.
Churu on Sunday was the hottest place in Rajasthan as the mercury inched close to 47 degree Celsius.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is all set for his India debut, the visit coming at a time when the American electronics giant faces increasing pressure to grow global sales amidst declining volumes in China.
After Pakistan, which pulled out of India-mooted South Asian Satellite Project, Afghanistan too has shown no interest in the venture.Sources said Afghanistan has tied up with a European company for its space-related needs.
Five-year plans, one of the last links to Nehru's economic policies, will soon be history. The Narendra Modi government has decided to discontinue the plans after the current one, which ends in March next year, and replace it with a longer vision of 15 years that will factor in social goals and sustainable development goals.
Indian PM Narendra Modi would address the concluding session of an international inter-faith symposium on the sidelines of Simhastha Kumbh in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain on Saturday as part of his cultural diplomacy with religion as its centrepiece.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday made a strong plea for the world to unite against terrorism and said "without prevention and prosecution of acts of terrorism there is no deterrence against nuclear terrorism."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Indian community in Brussels on Wednesday. Below are the top ten quotes from his speech:
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