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Lord Alexander Carlile, the British lawmaker denied entry into India on Wednesday night, had come prepared to be turned back from the Delhi airport and had already booked himself on a return British Airways flight scheduled to depart two hours after he landed.

India turned back British parliamentarian Lord Alexander Carlile from the Delhi airport soon after the top British lawyer's flight landed from London on Wednesday.

India is staring at its worst water crisis in history, a NITI Aayog report said today. The report said that currently 600 million Indians face high to extreme water shortage and about two lakh people die every year due to inadequate access to potable water.

Weeks after the launch of the first direct flight between Mumbai and Bali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indonesia President Joko Widodo today called for more flight connectivity between the two countries. India is among the top five countries which account for the largest number of tourists in Indonesia, growing at 30 per cent every year. This ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Jakarta, his first stop of his three-nation visit to maritime neighbours - Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. India and Indonesia elevated their bilateral ties to that of a Comprehensive Strategic Partnerhsip to step up defence and maritime cooperation, with plans to develop a strategic Indonesian naval port in th...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on May 21 for an informal summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The summit, which will be held at the summer beach resort of Sochi, is at the invitation of President Putin.

The Pakistani military has taken note of the comments made by ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai. It has called a high-level "national security" meeting over Mr Sharif's remarksin an interview with Karachi-based daily Dawn, that Pakistani terrorists carried out the 2008 attacks and that such terror strik...

US president Donald Trump's sudden pull-out from a crucial nuclear deal with Iran has received a cautious response from India, which has much riding on a peaceful resolution of the issue. As the five other nations involved in the deal rushed to salvage the situation, the foreign ministry emphasised on the need to resolve the matter with "dialogue a...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Nepal later this week, his third since he took over the top job in 2014, will emphasise the point that India wants substantive ties with its neighbour, a relationship to which it attaches great significance.

Maldives has told India to take back one of the two naval helicopters deployed by New Delhi in the Indian Ocean island chain as a gift, a stand that is seen as a reflection of the strained relationship between the two neighbours. The move comes weeks after Maldives lifted a 45-day state of emergency which had outlawed protests amid political upheav...

US Embassy officials from New Delhi rejected the reports which suggested the number of visas issued to foreign students by the United States of America fell sharply last year amid stricter immigration rules.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on Chinese President Xi Jinping to congratulate him on his re-election. The two leaders agreed that as two major powers growing rapidly, bilateral relations between India and China are vital for realisation of the 21st century as an "Asian century"

The 39 Indians missing in Iraq since they were kidnapped by ISIS in Mosul four years ago were killed by the terror outfit, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said in parliament today. "We wanted to give the families closure only after getting concrete proof," she said.

Pakistan has called back its High Commissioner in Delhi for a meeting after alleging that its diplomats and their families were "harassed and intimidated" in the capital. Islamabad said in a statement that it had called envoy Sohail Mahmood for "consultations" after "no positive action had been taken by India".

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron co-hosted the first edition of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Summit at Rashtrapati Bhavan today, the spotlight was on India which is being viewed as a key player in harnessing solar energy. PM Modi has pledged to generate 175 gigawatts (GW) of electricity in India from re...

Lord Alexander Carlile, the British lawmaker denied entry into India on Wednesday night, had come prepared to be turned back from the Delhi airport and had already booked himself on a return British Airways flight scheduled to depart two hours after he landed.

India turned back British parliamentarian Lord Alexander Carlile from the Delhi airport soon after the top British lawyer's flight landed from London on Wednesday.

India is staring at its worst water crisis in history, a NITI Aayog report said today. The report said that currently 600 million Indians face high to extreme water shortage and about two lakh people die every year due to inadequate access to potable water.

Weeks after the launch of the first direct flight between Mumbai and Bali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indonesia President Joko Widodo today called for more flight connectivity between the two countries. India is among the top five countries which account for the largest number of tourists in Indonesia, growing at 30 per cent every year. This ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Jakarta, his first stop of his three-nation visit to maritime neighbours - Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. India and Indonesia elevated their bilateral ties to that of a Comprehensive Strategic Partnerhsip to step up defence and maritime cooperation, with plans to develop a strategic Indonesian naval port in th...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on May 21 for an informal summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The summit, which will be held at the summer beach resort of Sochi, is at the invitation of President Putin.

The Pakistani military has taken note of the comments made by ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai. It has called a high-level "national security" meeting over Mr Sharif's remarksin an interview with Karachi-based daily Dawn, that Pakistani terrorists carried out the 2008 attacks and that such terror strik...

US president Donald Trump's sudden pull-out from a crucial nuclear deal with Iran has received a cautious response from India, which has much riding on a peaceful resolution of the issue. As the five other nations involved in the deal rushed to salvage the situation, the foreign ministry emphasised on the need to resolve the matter with "dialogue a...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Nepal later this week, his third since he took over the top job in 2014, will emphasise the point that India wants substantive ties with its neighbour, a relationship to which it attaches great significance.

Maldives has told India to take back one of the two naval helicopters deployed by New Delhi in the Indian Ocean island chain as a gift, a stand that is seen as a reflection of the strained relationship between the two neighbours. The move comes weeks after Maldives lifted a 45-day state of emergency which had outlawed protests amid political upheav...

US Embassy officials from New Delhi rejected the reports which suggested the number of visas issued to foreign students by the United States of America fell sharply last year amid stricter immigration rules.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on Chinese President Xi Jinping to congratulate him on his re-election. The two leaders agreed that as two major powers growing rapidly, bilateral relations between India and China are vital for realisation of the 21st century as an "Asian century"

The 39 Indians missing in Iraq since they were kidnapped by ISIS in Mosul four years ago were killed by the terror outfit, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said in parliament today. "We wanted to give the families closure only after getting concrete proof," she said.

Pakistan has called back its High Commissioner in Delhi for a meeting after alleging that its diplomats and their families were "harassed and intimidated" in the capital. Islamabad said in a statement that it had called envoy Sohail Mahmood for "consultations" after "no positive action had been taken by India".

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron co-hosted the first edition of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Summit at Rashtrapati Bhavan today, the spotlight was on India which is being viewed as a key player in harnessing solar energy. PM Modi has pledged to generate 175 gigawatts (GW) of electricity in India from re...