As a result of the Nixon-Kissinger folly that made it an accomplice of the Pakistani crimes in Bangladesh, Washington is now facing a formidable rival in China, writes Arul Louis for South Asia Monitor

India is situated in a tough neighbourhood and, as US envoy, he will work to achieve India's security as “few nations are more vital to the future of American security and prosperity than India,” Eric Garcetti, President Joe Biden's nominee as the next ambassador to India said at his confirmation hearing

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to take up the long-delayed confirmation process for Eric Garcetti as the ambassador to India and Donald Armin Blome as the envoy to Pakistan on Tuesday

US President Joe Biden has appointed Gautam Raghavan, an Indian American, as head of the White House personnel office

In rare condolence to the military chief of another country, emblematic of the growing security partnership between the two nations, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin hailed General Bipin Rawat's role in the transformation of India's military and said he had left an “indelible mark” on their defence ties

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply saddened” by the death of Generl Bipin Rawat, India's Chief of Defence Services and a veteran of UN peacekeeping operations, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric

Emphasizing India's commitment to the humanitarian protection of refugees, TS Tirumurti, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, on Tuesday said when then West Pakistan unleashed genocide on East Pakistan in 1971, India hosted millions of refugees and saved them from the massacre by the Pakistan Army

The UN wants humanitarian aid to arrive quickly anywhere where it is needed, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said, when asked about Pakistan holding up medicines and 50,000 tonnes of wheat that India wants to send to Afghanistan

In a diplomatic setback to the Taliban yearning for international recognition for its three and a half-month-old regime in Kabul, the deadlocked  UN credentials committee failed to act on the Islamic group's request to recognize its representative, giving the permanent representative of the previous democratically-elected government of…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres views completely banning citizens of certain countries from travel as a form of “collective punishment” and nations should instead use scientific methods to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric