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India will engage with all member states in a "spirit of openness" towards realising a nuclear weapons-free world, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Tuesday, reiterating that the goal of nuclear disarmament can be achieved through a st

The five permanent Security Council members are united on seeking a stable Afghanistan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday after talks among foreign ministers following the Taliban takeover.

The Assam government has restricted the Foreigners Tribunal from passing "consequential orders" as the members do not have the authority and can only make "opinion" on a case.

Many members in the "de facto" Taliban administration in Afghanistan, including the prime minister and foreign minister, are designated by the UN, and the Security Council needs to decide steps on the sanctions list, a top UN official said.

A country of the size of India with its independent foreign policy has been a welcome entrant into the UN Security Council, providing "much-needed" balance vis-a-vis the powerful UN body's five permanent members, New Delhi's envoy to the UN said.

India will make the best of its two-year term in the UN Security Council and underscore that it establishes the right to be a permanent member of the 15-nation body, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said.

Foreign ministers of India, China, Pakistan, and five other member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) began a key meeting of the grouping in Dushanbe on Wednesday with a focus on the evolving situation in Afghanistan.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized assets worth Rs 40.34 crore belonging to real estate businessman Avinash Bhosle and his family members in connection with a case against him under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.

In order to counter new foreign sanctions, China started with ''Wolf Warrior'' diplomacy to dissuade G7 member states from imposing new sanctions against Beijing under pressure from the US.

The Delhi Police has busted a fake call centre and arrested seven people who allegedly duped foreign nationals by posing as members of Amazon's technical support team, officials said on Friday.

Asserting that Beijing stands with New Delhi amid the COVID-19 crisis, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today said all BRICS member countries, including China, will provide support and assistance to India as it fights the second wave of the pandemic.

Ahead of the BRICS Foreign Ministers' meeting, China said on Tuesday that it looks forward to exchanging views, coordinating positions and building up consensus with other members of the five-member bloc on the most urgent issues of common concern.

The Group of Seven meeting in London was hit by a COVID-19 scare on Wednesday when India's foreign minister and his entire team said they were self-isolating after two delegation members tested positive.

Foreign minister S Jaishanker has tweeted that he has been exposed to possible Covid positive cases.

Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration's head of the Department of Homeland Security and members of the department's cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats from foreign countries.

India will engage with all member states in a "spirit of openness" towards realising a nuclear weapons-free world, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Tuesday, reiterating that the goal of nuclear disarmament can be achieved through a st

The five permanent Security Council members are united on seeking a stable Afghanistan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday after talks among foreign ministers following the Taliban takeover.

The Assam government has restricted the Foreigners Tribunal from passing "consequential orders" as the members do not have the authority and can only make "opinion" on a case.

Many members in the "de facto" Taliban administration in Afghanistan, including the prime minister and foreign minister, are designated by the UN, and the Security Council needs to decide steps on the sanctions list, a top UN official said.

A country of the size of India with its independent foreign policy has been a welcome entrant into the UN Security Council, providing "much-needed" balance vis-a-vis the powerful UN body's five permanent members, New Delhi's envoy to the UN said.

India will make the best of its two-year term in the UN Security Council and underscore that it establishes the right to be a permanent member of the 15-nation body, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said.

Foreign ministers of India, China, Pakistan, and five other member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) began a key meeting of the grouping in Dushanbe on Wednesday with a focus on the evolving situation in Afghanistan.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized assets worth Rs 40.34 crore belonging to real estate businessman Avinash Bhosle and his family members in connection with a case against him under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.

In order to counter new foreign sanctions, China started with ''Wolf Warrior'' diplomacy to dissuade G7 member states from imposing new sanctions against Beijing under pressure from the US.

The Delhi Police has busted a fake call centre and arrested seven people who allegedly duped foreign nationals by posing as members of Amazon's technical support team, officials said on Friday.

Asserting that Beijing stands with New Delhi amid the COVID-19 crisis, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today said all BRICS member countries, including China, will provide support and assistance to India as it fights the second wave of the pandemic.

Ahead of the BRICS Foreign Ministers' meeting, China said on Tuesday that it looks forward to exchanging views, coordinating positions and building up consensus with other members of the five-member bloc on the most urgent issues of common concern.

The Group of Seven meeting in London was hit by a COVID-19 scare on Wednesday when India's foreign minister and his entire team said they were self-isolating after two delegation members tested positive.

Foreign minister S Jaishanker has tweeted that he has been exposed to possible Covid positive cases.

Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration's head of the Department of Homeland Security and members of the department's cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats from foreign countries.