A Blue Chip panel that included European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, on Thursday (November 20) argued that the G8 has become "outdated" and must be doubled to include newer ...

Israel, blaming the continuous rocket firing at its towns, has resealed its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday (November 18). Earlier, on Monday Israel had allowed 33 truckloads of supplies into Gaza for the first time in two weeks. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian President ...

India and Australia have decided to improve the air connectivity between them by increasing more flight service. The proposal of operating more direct flights between India and Australia was raised in a meeting of the two tourism ministers of the countries. The meeting between Indian tourism ...

Russia and China have signed an energy deal between them to operate the pipeline link between the two nations. The prime ministers of both the nations, Vladimir Putin and Wen Jiabao were present during the signing of the accord. The energy deal between the two countries was signed to extend the ...

The Third Summit of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum took place in New Delhi on October 15, 2008. The three nations agreed to collaborate closely to tackle global crisis. After attending the high level international summit, the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh informed ...

India and Germany have decided to sign a Social Security agreement on October 8, 2008. The agreement will enable both the countries to simplify regulations on social security issues between them. Under the new agreement, the interests of the people working in either country will be protected. The ...

Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, is scheduled to reach India on October 3, 2008 in order to celebrate the senate's clearance of the Indo-US nuclear deal. It is, however, not known yet as to whether she will or wont sign the landmark accord. Addressing the media on Thursday, State ...

India has asked EU to liberalize its visa regime to facilitate hassle-free migration of skilled workforce. India has stressed that liberalized visa regime is important for free flow of businessmen and skilled professionals from the country to the continent. The appeal from India came during the ...

France has agreed to sell reactors and fuel to India, bringing the latter's nuclear isolation to an end after 34 long years. This development came about 24 days after the Nuclear Suppliers' Group amended its rules pertaining civil atomic commerce. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said after ...

India sealed a civil aviation deal with the European Union on Sunday, September 28, 2008, effectively legalizing 26 individual deals India holds with individual states of EU. The deal was signed a day before the yearly EU Summit on Monday. India's ambassador to the EU and officials from the French ...

India and Russia continuing their amicable relations now will enter into large defense deals. The ongoing meeting of Defense Minister A K Antony and his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov will aim to resolve problems which have come up in front of military projects for Sukhoi-30MKI fighters, ...

Punishing Iranian defiance to international nuke norms, UN Security Council has reaffirmed sanctions imposed on Iran. The U.N. Security Council passed the resolution unanimously and reaffirmed three previous rounds of sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment program. On the ...

US Senate Foreign Relations Committee cleared the Indo-US nuclear deal on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 by a 19-2 margin. This development has taken place at a time when the Indian Prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh is about to reach New York.
 
This clearance by US senate now has ...

Serbia has managed to garner the support of India on the issue of Kosovo's independence that will be raised in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) next month. Vuk Jeremic, the visiting Serbian foreign minister, told the media recently that India has pledged to vote in Serbia's favor at UNGA ...

UN General Assembly will hold a debate on the issue of Serbia's plea for an opinion on Kosovo's independence from ICJ (International Court of Justice). Factually, the issue of Kosovo has been volatile one, and ethnic Albanian-majority of Kosovo is an UN-run province of Serbia since 1999. The state ...

India and Nepal have agreed to revise much opposed Indo-Nepal Trade and Transit Treaty. Revision of the 58-year-old treaty which is fundamental governor of the bilateral relations would be done to develop Indo-Nepal bilateral relationship in new era under latest realities. Maoists, since their ...

The visiting French Trade Minister Anne Marie Idrac talking with a private news channel has said that Indo-French N-deal may conclude this month. She said that India and France may conclude a nuclear deal when India's PM will be visiting France in later part of the month. She said that France ...

Sunday, September 14, 2008 will see Nepal’s first Maoist Prime Minister, Mr Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ arriving in India for a five-day visit. India, on its part, is looking forward to utilizing this opportunity to bolster its relationship with the Himalayan nation. ...

Bush showing his symbolic anger on Russian attack on Georgia has scrapped proposed US-Russia nuke deal. Earlier, Bush had sent the agreement to Congress for approval in May, and now he himself has pulled it back. Announcing the decision on Bush's behalf, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said ...

Australia adamant to its policy of selling uranium to NPT members only has said that it will not sell the same to India till it signs NPT. The Trade Minister of Australia Simon Crean said that Australia is committed to supplying uranium to only those countries which are party to the NPT, and it ...

The coming week will see Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari visiting China to negotiate a nuclear deal like the one being worked out between US and India, an official has revealed. On conditions of anonymity, the official added that Pakistan has already apprised China of its plans about ...

With the approval of nuclear waiver by NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group) India has finally come out of the 34-year old nuclear apartheid. Also, the approval has stopped all the speculations and reservations in the eyes of some NSG member states about India's nuclear deal and India's nuclear program. ...

US President George W Bush has condemned Russia for recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. President Bush said that Abkhazia and South Ossetia are well within the internationally recognized borders of Georgia, and they must remain so. Earlier, Russian president Medvedev ...

France which is currently holding revolving presidency of European Union (EU) has asked member states for an emergency meeting on September 1. The meeting aims to discuss the crisis in Georgia. The venue of the meeting would be Brussels. A statement released from President's office in France tells ...

US destroyer ship USS McFaul has reached on the coast of Georgia; the report has been confirmed by U.S. Embassy spokesman Stephen Guice in Tbilisi, and also, there has been confirmation of the same from Russian side. However, the vessel is carrying relief materials needed at torn area of Georgia. ...

In midst of overwhelming pressure from Western governments on Russia to follow ceasefire agreement to withdraw its soldiers from Georgia, Russia will soon take out its army from invaded land. In a statement President Dmitry Medvedev promised that Russian troops will begin pulling out of Georgia ...

NATO seems to be taking new military assertiveness in Russian defense policy a challenge. In order to meet new challenges and take tough stand against Russian offensive against small nation Georgia; NATO members will meet at Brussels on 19th August to discuss the issue and decide on the ...

It was a historical visit to Damascus by Lebanese President Michel Sleiman when two countries have agreed to establish a diplomatic relation since their independence from French colonial power about 60 years ago.
 
It has been considered as a landmark decision by two countries as it ...

Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) diplomats have shown their concern on the issue of supplying nuclear fuel to India without putting additional restrictions. Earlier, diplomats from several nuclear-exporting countries were critical on the issue of the US move to seek no additional conditions in ...

Georgia in its hope to get justice has filed a law suit in International Court of Justice. It has charged the crimes of genocides and ethnic cleansing against Russia during 1993-2008. ICJ too has confirmed that the Georgian ambassador to the Netherlands filed a law suit. The ICJ was set up to solve ...