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Over 20 Maldivians travel to India for treatment

Additional patients requiring urgent medical care not available in the Maldives have departed to neighbouring India

PM Oli opens new fronts of Indo-Nepal disputes

Needling India further, the K.P. Oli-led Nepal government has started the construction of a helipad at a disputed site in Bihar besides beginning the installation of 360-degree CCTV cameras in a no-man's land near Uttarakhand along the India-Nepal border

WB says cannot mediate in Pakistan-India water dispute

The World Bank has expressed its inability to take an independent decision on appointment of a neutral expert or court of arbitration for settlement of a long outstanding water dispute between Pakistan and India, saying the two countries will have to bilaterally choose one option

India tells Pakistan to desist from communal incitements in India

India on Thursday asked Pakistan to desist from inciting communal tensions in India with its provocative statements on its internal matters

Pakistan seeks OIC meeting on Kashmir, Saudis show reluctance

Pakistan wanting to ratchet up the volume over Kashmir but the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is refusing to hold foreign ministers meeting

'Pakistani soldier killed, two critically injured in Afghan border violence'

A Frontier Corps soldier was martyred while two others were critically injured in separate incidents of violence against Pakistan Army posts by terrorists and Afghan Border Police from across the border, the Foreign Office said in a statement late Wednesday

Pakistan FM Qureshi asks OIC to stop dragging feet on Kashmir meeting

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in an unusually sharp warning asked Saudi Arabia-led Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday to stop dilly-dallying on the convening of a meeting of its Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) on Kashmir

Maldives to expand MIFCO facilities via Indian credit line

The Indian High Commission in Maldives, on Tuesday announced the expansion of Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company (MIFCO) facilities, a project funded by the USD 800 million credit line extended by India to the Maldives

India returns Nepali rhino swept away by flood

A massive flood on the Rapti and Narayani rivers in Chitwan National Park in August 2017 swept away wildlife, including rare Asiatic One-horned Rhinoceros, downstream to India

Pakistan will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with its Kashmiri brethren: PM Imran Khan

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday expressed that Pakistan will always be with its brothers and sisters in the "Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir"(IIOJK) until they get the right to self-determination through a free and impartial plebiscite under the United Nations as per the relevant UNSC Resolutions

Two more kidnapped Indian engineers freed in Afghanistan

India said on Tuesday two more of the seven Indian engineers kidnapped in northern Baghlan province in May 2018 had been freed and had returned to the country, the Hindustan Times reported

Investigation of Pakistani shelling completed: Kabul delegation

A high-ranking Afghan government delegation sent to investigate the recent clash between Afghan and Pakistani forces at the Chaman crossing in Spin Boldak said Tuesday that their investigations have ended, and the results will be shared with the central government

India rubbishes Pakistan's new map as 'obsession with territorial aggrandisement'

India on Tuesday slammed Pakistan, saying it is obsessed with territorial aggrandisement after the Imran Khan government issued a new political map which includes parts of Gujarat and the Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir

Security beefed up on India-Nepal border for Ayodhya event

The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the Uttar Pradesh Police have intensified patrolling along the 551 km-long India-Nepal border, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled visit to Ayodhya for Ram Temple Bhumi Puja on Wednesday

Imran Khan unveils new map that shows Kashmir as part of Pakistan

On the eve of the first anniversary of the revocation of the contentious Article 370 and Article 35A, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan unveiled a new political map which includes the UT of J&K as part of Pakistan on Tuesday