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.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will build a special data window for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to get timely information about cyclones, coral-reef monitoring, coast-line monitoring through satellite, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Glasgow on Tuesday
About 20 people were killed and over 50 injured in an attack on a military hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, the latest assault to rock Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power
The anti-Taliban resistance front led by Ahmad Massoud and former Afghan first vice president Amrullah Saleh has announced they would resume their fighting soon against the Taliban, reported Russian news agency TASS, as the group’s leaders, believed to be based in neighboring Tajikistan, are trying to lobby support from key international players and regional powers
India will achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2070, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the COP26 summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday, spelling out the target for the first time that gives the country 10 years more than China and 20 more than the US and European Union, NDTV said
In what is the highest increase for a month, Pakistan’s exports in October registered a growth of 17 percent, touching $2.471 billion against $2.104 billion in the same month last year
Public health experts in Sri Lanka have warned of another wave of Covid-19 amid the possibilities of the spread of A.30, a new coronavirus variant, known to evade both Covid-19 vaccines, just over a month after the country came out of the lockdown
The Pakistan government signed an agreement with the banned Islamist group TLP to end the violent agitation that stretched for almost ten days and cost the lives of seven policemen even as protestors threatened to storm the capital Islamabad
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership, trade, economy and people-to-people ties, as they met on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rome Sunday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asserted that India cannot ignore the neglect of climate finance, and called on developed nations to set a target of providing at least one per cent of their GDP for financing green projects in the developing world
A military court in Pakistan has sentenced the son of a retired major general of the Pakistan Army to five years in prison on charges of treason
Russia, which became an important player after the US exit from Afghanistan, has been walking a thin line on the Taliban, staying away from outrightly recognizing the hardline Islamist regime while, at the same time, stressing the importance of continuing engagement with the Taliban
Nepal Bar Association, the umbrella body of the country’s lawyers, has now given a five-day deadline to Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana to step down
India and Israel have agreed to form a task force that will work to identify new areas of defence cooperation, New Delhi said on Friday, after officials of both the countries held the 15th round of Joint Working Group meeting on military ties
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the situation in Afghanistan could not be seen in isolation and that the international community would have to watch out very carefully against any form of intimidation or threat emerging out of the war-torn country
India's first manned ocean mission Samudrayan was launched in Chennai on Friday and with this the nation joined an elite club of nations having such underwater vehicles for carrying out subsea activities
