Garcetti's nomination was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which held a hearing in December on his nomination and heard his testimony and questioned him

India has stayed neutral on seven Ukraine-related resolutions at the United Nations – including one on which the US also abstained – although New Delhi has criticised Russia's invasion obliquely

All sides to the Ukraine crisis are seeking India's backing and this has led to many senior diplomats converging on New Delhi

South Asian peacekeepers dominate the 14,000-strong military segment of the operation with 1,974 from Pakistan, 1,888 from India, 1,634 from Bangladesh and 936 from Nepal

The I2-U2 meeting had followed the Abraham Accords, through which Israel normalised relations with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco

Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf had admitted that Khan had given North Korea centrifuges for enriching uranium for nuclear weapons

Tirumurti said that humanitarian assistance should be based on humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence and “should not be politicised”

India will again be made to take a stand on the Russian invasion when the Ukraine resolutions come to a vote in the Assembly

The Biden administration and India are evolving a delicate balance at the centre of which is China on how New Delhi reacts to the Russia invasion of Ukraine

A Bihar, India-born global health expert has been appointed by President Joe Biden to the White House position of overseeing the nation's response to the Covid pandemic