"India is a very important country (for the meet). In fact, India is a country that is even more multi-faceted (than the event's hosts)," Doulat Kuanyshev, ambassador-at-large in the Kazakhstan foreign ministry, said of the third Congress of World and Traditional Religions that Kazakhstan ...

According to the US President Barack Obama, the withdrawal of the US combat

In brief remarks made at a White House event Tuesday, he said the drawback meant that Iraq's future is now in the hands of its leaders and people.
"The Iraqis are rightly treating this day as a cause for ...

India and Bhutan would jointly develop 10 hydroelectric projects by 2020, according to Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley.

Thinley said that by 2020 two nations will have 11,000 MW hydel power through 10 projects. One of the projects is under way. He added that the other projects are at ...

Bhutanese Prime Minister, Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley, will arrive in New Delhi on Tuesday for a four-day visit. This is the first visit by a foreign leader to India since the new government took charge last month. 
With the new Indian government placing top priority on building better ties ...

Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma and his British counterpart Lord Peter Mandelson have agreed on the need for an early resumption of stalled global trade talks, Indian sources said Tuesday.
Sharma, who spent a day in London Monday, met with Business Secretary Mandelson for their ...

Bangladesh's main opposition leader Khaleda Zia has written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that India should stop building the Tipaimukh dam in its north-eastern region.
The Tipaimukh dam on the Barak river is in India's Manipur state.
Zia dispatched the letter ...

India has reiterated its demand for "real reform" of the UN Security Council with expansion in both permanent and non-permanent membership of the world body's top decision making organ.
 

Noting that the overwhelming majority of member states has unambiguously sought "real ...

Sharma, who is in Britain for talks with his opposite number Peter Mandelson, told a gathering of prominent British and Indian businessmen the logjam in the so-called Doha Development Round of trade talks "must be broken".

But he accused rich countries of erecting new trade barriers ...

A Russian official Monday dismissed media reports that Russia planned to lease several nuclear submarines to India, saying the contract envisioned only the transfer of Nerpa nuclear submarine.
 

"We will lease only one submarine. In my opinion, India needs the submarine more for ...

Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon on Saturday began his two-day visit to Nepal with an agreement on fast-track cooperation even as police arrested nearly two dozen protesters trying to show black flags to the envoy and holding a demonstration in front of the Indian embassy in ...

Israel claimed that it has made "progress" in talks with the US aimed at resolving their disagreement over the ongoing construction in West Bank settlements.

"There is still the issue of settlements, what we call construction for the purpose of allowing a normal life for the ...

The Japan Airlines Cor. Said that the number of flights operating on the international routes, including Delhi, will be cut down due to the spread of H1N1 virus and economic meltdown.
 
JAL has plans fro reducing the number of flights on five routes which links the Narita Airport with ...

The speech made by the Prime Minister of Israel Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, where he had put forward the proposal for two states, has been welcomed by the US President Barack Obama as a positive move in the direction of restarting ‘serious talks’.
 
Obama has quoted that he felt a ...

Leaders of some of the most powerful emerging economies of the world are all set to meet on Tuesday to discuss how to apply more control over the financial system of the world as it is prepared for taking the initial wobbly step towards the recovery process.
 
The BRIC summit does not have ...

While the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, is getting ready to leave for the BRIC Summit in Russia after the taking charge of the second term, he said that India is ready to provide any help from her side for coordinating the global efforts for overcoming the crisis felt by the entire ...

The BRIC Summit which is supposed to be held at Yekaterinburg in Russia will be attended by the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh. This BRIC summit will try to frame a responsive in a comprehensive manner to the major and vital problems which are currently faced by the people all over the ...

Pakistan and Iran have signed the ambitious pipeline agreement without India. Under the agreement, a  pipeline will be build to take Iranian gas to Pakistan. The preliminary agreement was signed in Tehran by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali ...

China and Taiwan are likely to sign an economic cooperation framework agreement that will boost the relationships of the two rival nations. The representatives of the two countries are currently holding key meetings in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing. The signing of the agreement between the ...

What could be a historic development in their bilateral relation, on Friday (6th March) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in Geneva and made a symbolic "reboot" to improve their strained relations. In the meeting they discussed a number ...

India has sidestepped a US invitation for a ringside seat at a trilateral US-Pakistan-Afghanistan conference. The conference is scheduled to be held in next week in Washington. The trilateral conference will be Richard Holbrooke's first exercise as part of the US's attempt to stabilize ...

Hamas on Thursday (February 12) night agreed to abide by an 18-month truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip. According to media reports, the politburo deputy chief of Hamas, Moussa Abu-Marzouk accepted to maintain the treaty with the Israeli side for one year and a half. He stated that Israel will ...

Obama administration has outlined a new campaign strategy for the war against Taliban in Afghanistan. Described as "new realism" by senior officials and diplomats, the new strategy seems to scale back the ambitions of George Bush.
 
Richard Holbrooke, Barack Obama's new envoy ...

The government of Taiwan has decided to implement regular flight service from Taiwan to China by the first half of 2009. In a statement to the media, director of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), Lee Wen-lung said that authorities have notified the CAA to operate regular flights across ...

Putting an end to the deadlock, both China and Taiwan started the operations of direct air, sea transport and postal services in between them. The recent move will benefit Taiwan to execute its operations swiftly and conveniently. The direct flight service was inaugurated by sending a Shenzhen ...

In a surprising move, especially at a time when the IAEA and Western Nuclear giants have been forcing it to abandon all kinds of nuclear programme, Iran invited all the Gulf States to join hands in developing nuclear plants.
While addressing an international seminar on nuclear plants and ...

The Arab League on Tuesday (December 02) assured India of extending its full support in fighting against terrorism. While giving his speech at the India-Arab cultural week festival, Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa condemned the November 26 terror strikes in Mumbai and assured to offer ...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be arriving in New Delhi on Wednesday (December 03) to express solidarity with India following the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 200 people, including six Americans.
In a statement, White House press secretary Dana Perino said that Condoleezza ...

LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran, in an appeal to India, said that New Delhi should seek renewal of relationship by lifting the ban on the outfit. He asserted that even the struggle of the LTTE is gaining importance and acceptance in some parts of India.
Addressing at the annual Hero’s ...

Jack Fuller, chief executive officer of the GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy joint venture, will lead the delegation of US nuclear-industry suppliers, who will come to India on a nuclear trade mission starting December 2 to 9.
The mission, to be the largest ever trade mission of US commercial nuclear ...

U.S. President George W. Bush, who left on Friday (November 21) for the Asia-Pacific summit to be held at Lima, Peru, will seek support for global financial reforms and hold talks on ending North Korea’s nuclear program. Experts, however, believe that the meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic ...