The President of the Unite States, Barack Obama, will not be able to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which is slated to take place at Port-Spain in November due to the tight schedules he has.
 
The CHOGM organisers had a tough time to convince Obama to be the special ...

Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will be departing for the G20 summit, slated to be held in Pittsburgh, on Wednesday. He will be demanding for a larger role for developing nations in global financial architecture.
 
Along with discussions on the global economic crisis, he will ...

India has expressed displeasure over Victorian Premier John Brumby cancelling his visit to Mumbai during his trip to India.
 
Indian Consul-General in Melbourne Anita Nayar said that instead of cancelling the trip, the Premier should have visited Mumbai to prove that Australians are ...

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardar has left for New York to participate in the UN General Assembly, along with a high-level delegation.
 
Zardari will be holding talks with leaders of other nations as well as the UN officials on the sidelines of 64th UN General Assembly session. He will be ...

With US president Barack Obama announcing the scrapping of the implementation of Missiles in Poland and other European nations, Russia has also announced its calling off of the implementation of missiles near Poland.
 
Vladimir Popovkin, while talking over the radio station, Ekho Moskvy, ...

US President Barack Obama will be meeting the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas separately, before the joint meeting, to re-initiate peace talks between the two.
 
The rekindling of peace process have been restricted due to the differences in ...

Home Minister P. Chidambaram has appreciated the step taken Pakistani police in arresting the alleged mastermind behind the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks. He said that even "a half step is a good step".
 
"I have gathered it from the media. But I am told that it's not related ...

Two separate cases have been filed against the LeT chief, Hafiz Saeed, by Pakistan. Saeed has been accused as the mastermind behind the 26/11 Mumbai carnage and he has also been named as the leader of Jamaat-Ud-Dawa group, which acts on behalf of Lashkar-e-Toiba, a terrorist group which is named to ...

Hillary Clinton has mentioned that the US is willing to engage North Korea in direct talks and urge the nation to restore its negotiation talks on its nuclear programme.
 
But she added that any formal decision, regarding the visit of US special envoy Stephen Bosworth to Pyongyang, has not ...

The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas-Europe (PBD-E), a regional diaspora event, will be held by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, at the Hague in the Netherlands on Sep 19.
 
The event, which will be held at the World Forum, is meant to "celebrate the success of Indian diaspora and unite ...

Asda, the subsidiary of retail giant Wal Mart and the second largest chain of British supermarkets, will be launching an Indian clothing line. This is the first ever time that a British retailer has taken such an initiative.
 
This initiative, which is being launched to mark the festivals of ...

Indian Foreign Secretary, Nirupama Rao, has arrived in Kathmandu on a two-day trip during which talks will be held with top Nepalese leaders. The talks will focus more on the political scenario of Nepal. She will also be visiting the Pashupatinath temple, where the Maoists had attacked two Indian ...

The negotiations between Russia and Venezuela meant for the joint production of oil from oil-rich Orinoco Belt have been completed. This information was given by PDVSA, the nationalized oil giant of Venezuela.
 
The Junin 6 Block will have an estimated "base production level of between ...

A US delegation will meet the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama on Monday for finalising the decision regarding his visit to US.
 
White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, along with two other US officials, had met the Tibetan Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche and the special ...

The European Union - India trade and development workshop, which is scheduled to kick off on Sep 24, will be held in New Delhi. This workshop focuses on providing the information regarding ongoing EU-India trade negotiations to the civil society.
 
The workshop will be organised by the ...

The United Nations, which had planned for rendering a helping hand for Honduras elections, has now disclosed that it has revoked all those aids. This decision has been taken by UN in wake of the new action taken against putschists, who had gained the control of the nation in June 2009.
 
The ...

Tanzanian Prime Minister Mizengo K. Pinda will be in India on Monday to kick off his four-day visit during which the relations between the nations in areas ranging from agriculture to UN reforms and terror will be strengthened.
 
Pinda, along with few other senior officials, arrived in New ...

Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has supported India’s attitude towards climate change, but he has also disclosed that he hopes for an all-nation agreement by end of 2009.
 
"The Indian approach is very ambitious. It goes hand in hand with fighting poverty," told ...

Pakistan has disclosed that it is ready to solve its issues with India via third-part mediation. This was admitted by Pakistan in the wake of the US visit of Indian Home Minister, P Chidambaram.
 
"India was always allergic to third-party mediation. What the Indian Home Minister is ...

The Air Services Agreement between Nepal and India has been revised which will allow Nepal to fly to 10 more destinations in India, making the total destinations accessible to Nepalese flights to 21. The total numbers of seats in the flights have also been increased by five-fold from 6,000 to ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki has disclosed that Iran and Brazil can be key players in "the new world order through their cooperation on the international scene", for which they need to improve their bilateral relationship.
 
Mottaki and the Brazil's deputy foreign ...

Russia and Venezuela have entered into an agreement for a package of deals in the oil industry, which includes the developing of the Orinoco oil belt located in Venezuela. This is the storehouse of about 235 billion barrels of heavy oil.
 
The PdVSA, the government-run oil firm of Venezuela ...

US along with four other nations have inked an international plan to fend off piracy from the coast of Somali. US has also taken the charge to provide protection to one among the world's busiest shipping routes.
 
The ‘New York Declaration’ has been inked by U.S. Deputy ...

A memorandum of understanding has been signed by Delhi Technological University and seven engineering institutes of France, The Groupe Des Ecoles Des Mines, which will enable the collaboration between the two. This MoU will enhance the opportunities for both to have a global experience and for ...

The 62nd Annual Conference of Non Governmental Organisations, which kicked off on Sep 9, is being hosted by Mexico. This conference will be focussing more on disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
 
The three-day conference, which has participants from 70 nations ...

Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj will be visiting India on Sunday on a four-day itinerary. This is the first overseas visit of the Mongolian President after assuming charge.
 
Elbegdorj and Inidan Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold talks which will focus on a large number of ...

Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, will be paying a visit to New Delhi in November. According to sources, behind his visit is a “desire on the part of both India and Australia to strengthen and broaden the relationship".
 
Even though there have been a few ...

According to Brazilian officials, the country is planning to purchase about 36 Rafale fighter jets from France.
 
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is currently in Brazil, is involving in negotiations with the Brazilian President.
 
"Considering the volume of the proposed ...

France and Brazil have entered into a arms deal worth millions of dollars which will enable the sharing of vital military technologies, developing submarines as well as purchasing helicopters.
 
The deal was inked by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio ...

Following the settlement of the much heated election outcome, the re-elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ready to hold talks with world powers over global issues.
 
President Ahmadinejad reiterated his country’s stance over the nuclear issue saying “from our point of ...