India's contribution to the improved global growth outlook extends well beyond the immediate AI boom or the performance of energy-exporting economies. The IMF's assessment points instead to a combination of domestic demand, demographics, market expansion and structural reforms as important drivers of India's longer-term prospects.
India and the five Central Asian countries on Sunday agreed to enhance cooperation in trade, connectivity, and security even as they condemned terrorism, including cross-border terrorism, and stressed on the territorial integrity of Afghanistan and non-interference in its internal affairs
India is hosting the Third India-Central Asia Dialogue Sunday as New Delhi marks a strategic outreach to a region that it now considers as part of its extended neighbourhood
The Doha deal signed between the Taliban and the United States paved the way for the collapse of the US-backed Afghan government, former Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib has said
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday inaugurated Dhaka’s Ramna Kali Temple, 30 years after it was destroyed by Pakistan forces in the Liberation War
The European Union (EU) should work with its international partners to press the Sri Lankan government for its rights obligations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, warning that respect for human rights in the country has been “declining alarmingly under President Rajapaksa.”
The Maldives has withdrawn the mandatory quarantine norm for vaccinated workers from South Asian countries after evaluating the Covid-19 situation in the region
Bhutan has conferred its highest civilian award on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering confirmed on Friday
The Pakistan government has decided to suspend cellular phone services in some areas of Islamabad for three days beginning Friday in view of the three-day special OIC session on Afghanisan being held in the capital
A drone strike reportedly targeted a senior leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Thursday in Kunar, an Afghan province bordering Pakistan, just over a week after the ceasefire understanding between the Pakistan Taliban and the Pakistan government came to end
India and Pakistan are still working out the modalities of sending 50,000 MT of wheat as humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan via the land route, which is a “complex operation”, India's Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday, not responding to questions on why it was not sent via Iran
Every year more than 177,000 Pakistani children die before the age of five due to malnutrition, according to the country’s minister for national food security and research
If the first 50 years of our partnership began by surmounting extraordinary challenges that forged a deep friendship between our people, perhaps the time has come to raise the bar even higher, said Indian President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday in the Bangladesh parliament as both nations celebrated the golden jubilee of Victory Day, marking the surrender of the Pakistani forces in Bangladesh in 1971
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged states to make natural farming a mass movement, saying it will help save thousands of crores of rupees spent each year on importing chemicals and fertilizers
Dhaka’s famous Ramna Kali Temple, destroyed by the Pakistani forces in 1971, will be re-inaugurated by Indian President Ram Nath Kovind who is on an official visit to Bangladesh to participate in the 50th anniversary of Victory Day, the 'liberation' of Bangladesh
In a socially progressive reformatory measure, the Union Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cleared a task force recommendation to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years — the same as men
