The arc of history sometimes bends in unexpected ways as seen in the Portuguese leadership 60 years after the liberation of Goa from Portuguese rule. Portugal is now led by people of Indian descent with family ties to the former colony - Prime Minister António Luís Santos da Costa, Finance Minister Joao Leao and Planning Minister Nelson de…
At least 66 identified Indian-origin terrorists were operating abroad with the global terrorist organisation Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has sprouted new branches in Pakistan and India and also marked its presence in Bangladesh and the Maldives through affiliates, according to the US State Department
As a result of the Nixon-Kissinger folly that made it an accomplice of the Pakistani crimes in Bangladesh, Washington is now facing a formidable rival in China, writes Arul Louis for South Asia Monitor
India is situated in a tough neighbourhood and, as US envoy, he will work to achieve India's security as “few nations are more vital to the future of American security and prosperity than India,” Eric Garcetti, President Joe Biden's nominee as the next ambassador to India said at his confirmation hearing
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to take up the long-delayed confirmation process for Eric Garcetti as the ambassador to India and Donald Armin Blome as the envoy to Pakistan on Tuesday
US President Joe Biden has appointed Gautam Raghavan, an Indian American, as head of the White House personnel office
In rare condolence to the military chief of another country, emblematic of the growing security partnership between the two nations, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin hailed General Bipin Rawat's role in the transformation of India's military and said he had left an “indelible mark” on their defence ties
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply saddened” by the death of Generl Bipin Rawat, India's Chief of Defence Services and a veteran of UN peacekeeping operations, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric
Emphasizing India's commitment to the humanitarian protection of refugees, TS Tirumurti, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, on Tuesday said when then West Pakistan unleashed genocide on East Pakistan in 1971, India hosted millions of refugees and saved them from the massacre by the Pakistan Army
The UN wants humanitarian aid to arrive quickly anywhere where it is needed, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said, when asked about Pakistan holding up medicines and 50,000 tonnes of wheat that India wants to send to Afghanistan
