The government has taken steps to address shortages of fuel and gas to some extent when compared to the earlier situation which had long queues that stretched for kilometres outside fuel and gas stations. But a well-planned recovery plan still cannot be seen that can address the long-term food security issues.
In what is being perceived as intense efforts to prevent any security threat from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan in the future, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief visited India and Pakistan and deliberated with key officials, days after the Taliban unveiled its interim government that included several persons, including acting Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, who figure on the UN Security Council's terrorism blacklist
Thousands of political workers of different parties protested in Kathmandu, Nepal on Thursday when US officials visited the capital to hold discussions for an aid program under which Nepal is scheduled to receive $500 million in grants
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday chaired the 13th BRICS summit via video conferencing, saying that it was "an influential voice for rising economies"
One dose of vaccine is 96.6 per cent effective in preventing death and two Covid shots are 97.5 per cent effective, the government said today, citing data between April and August
The grey hull of the C-130 Super Herculese transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force came thundering down from an overcast sky as it landed in a village called Agarawa in Rajasthan, barely 50 km from the border with Pakistan
A day after the Taliban announced its cabinet, with no representation of women and lack of adequate representation of ethnic minorities, Afghanistan’s embassy in New Delhi on Wednesday issued a statement in the name of the Afghan Foreign Ministry and “condemned” the announcement by the Taliban of its “so-called cabinet” as “illegitimate and unjustifiable”
A day after the Taliban announced its interim government in Afghanistan, packed with hardline leaders of the movement, the group has still a long way to go for getting international recognition
India will hold the G20 presidency from December 1, 2022, and will convene the G20 leaders' summit in 2023 for the first time, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday
In a move deemed historic, the Modi government today told the Supreme Court that women will be admitted into the National Defence Academy (NDA) for permanent commission into India's armed forces
The Taliban, which promised to recast themselves in a more moderate mold, failed when they named the Afghanistan cabinet, a top source Wednesday told NDTV after a high level inter-governmental consultation between Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in New Delhi
A journalist in Bangladesh was slapped with charges under the country’s draconian Digital Security Act (DSA)-- often allegedly used to muzzle independent, opposition, and anti-government voices--for, what the authority says, circulating “false news in social media.”
At least two members of security forces were killed in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region in an IED attack, Pakistan's military confirmed. This is the second attack after Sunday last week when four soldiers were killed in Quetta
The Taliban on Tuesday evening announced the new government in Afghanistan--almost three weeks after capturing Kabul--headed by Mullah Hasan Akhund, a close associate of the movement founder Mullah Omar
Afghanistan will not accept condition-based aid, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid has said a day after senior UN officials met Taliban leaders in Kabul to discuss humanitarian assistance to the country
The Nepal government dispatched a diplomatic note to India last week days after a probe panel pointed figures at Indian border personnel in an incident of a missing Nepali youth, Nepali media reports said. Officially, the government has not confirmed the development
