Canada is extending support to strengthen the capacities of the cooperative sector and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in Sri Lanka impacted by COVID-19, the High Commissioner of Canada to Sri Lanka David McKinnon said
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An event of patriotism from erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 has been given a fresh lease of life
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Indian vaccine maker to begin human trials from July
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India condemns Karachi attack, calls out Pakistan for conspiracy theories
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Talks with India uncertain after Oli rhetoric?
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Gorkhas on the frontline between India and China
A clash between Indian and Chinese troops at Ladakh’s Galwan Valley on 15 June rocked the dynamics between the world’s two most populous nuclear powers. But it also drew attention to the involvement of soldiers from Nepal in the Indian Army
38 Indian High Commission officials to be sent back today; 100 Pakistani diplomats, including family members, to return today
Thirty-eight of the total 76 Indian High Commission officials in Islamabad will return to New Delhi on Tuesday (today) - a move Pakistan has made in a tit-for-tat response to the neighbouring country's decision to slash by half the strength of the Pakistan's diplomatic mission in Delhi
