Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to host ten world leaders, including Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in the seaside resort of Goa, India’s showcase tourist destination. Why Goa some may ask, considering that this is perhaps the first time that India is hosting such a major event outside Lutyens Delhi. Away from the capital, leaders can be more at ease and speak freely to each other in the relaxed holiday surrounding of sea and sand. Prime... 

RIO DE JANEIRO: In fast-growing cities across the developing world more than 70 per cent of residents lack access to basic services like clean water, affordable transportation or decent housing, a research group said on Friday ahead of a UN conference on urbanization. By 2050, 2.5 billion people will move into the world’s cities, said the World Resources Institute. By 2050, 2.5 billion people, a bigger population than China and India combined,... 

New Delhi: India has has no problem in issuing visas to Pakistani artistes, a Union Home Ministry official said on Friday. File photo of Home Minister Rajnath Singh. “Government of India has no problem in giving visa to any Pakistani artiste,” a Home Ministry official told IANS. “We have no problem in granting visas. If a person applies for visa and he fulfills the conditions, he gets it. It’s not that we don’t have to... 

Washington: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he will cancel the historic Paris climate deal if voted to power as the agreement would cost the US economy USD 5.3 trillion and “skyrocket” electricity prices. Donald Trump. Speaking at an election rally in Florida, Trump said he will create jobs all across America and provide cheaper energy to people, especially farmers. “I believe so much in the environment. Believe... 

US backed India’s right to defend itself as with any other country, in view of recent surgical strikes. WASHINGTON: Supporting India’s “right to self-defence” in the aftermath of the Uri attack which it dubbed a “clear case of cross-border terrorism“, the US today dismissed the recent attempt by Pakistan to link peace in war-torn Afghanistan with Kashmir. The White House backed India’s right to defend itself... 

The Brics Summit this weekend in Goa comes at a time when India-Pakistan relationship has hit a new low. Between Pakistan’s renewed intransigence in leveraging anti-India proxies to prosecute its Kashmir agenda and India’s signal that will meet the same using limited military options, the discussions in Goa will invariably be coloured by the recent events in South Asia. PM Modi and President Xi Jinping shake hands in the G20 summit, 2016. Of... 

Bangladesh is keen to have India as a “stakeholder” in the proposed USD 4 billion Ganges barrage project and a team from India’swater resources ministry will soon visit Dhaka to hold talks in this regard, a senior minister has said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka on 06 June 2015. State Minister for Water Resources Nazrul Islam said two Chinese firms were keen to fully finance... 

COLUMBUS, UNITED STATES: An invigorated Hillary Clinton commanded a record crowd of more than 10,000 supporters Monday, leaving Donald Trump floundering as America’s top elected Republican all but conceded the White House. A day after the second presidential debate, Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Michigan and Ohio. The former secretary of state looking to make history as America’s first woman commander-in-chief held an evening rally... 

PM Narendra Modi. Away from the increasing politicisation of the recent surgical strikes that the Indian armed forces conducted across the Line of Control (LoC), one aspect that is not properly highlighted in our discourse on the subject is the fact that it was a “strategic decision” — a decision taken at the highest level of the political leadership of the country (involving the Prime Minister of India). Such strikes, as the Congress rightly... 

A soldier was injured on Monday in the exchange of fire between security forces and militants holed up inside Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) in South Kashmir’s Pampore Town, which had witnessed a suicide attack in February this year. Security personnel patrolling the area outside the building. Two to three militants are believed to have entered into the building of EDI in the early hours of Monday. “One soldier was injured...