Washington Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump attending the mega ‘Howdy Modi’ event together in Houston is a “win-win” situation not only for both the leaders, but also for their countries, the head of a US-based India-centric corporate advocacy group has said. Trump will join Modi andRead More

New Delhi Amid the chanting of Buddhist prayers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga on Friday jointly unveiled a statue of Lord Buddha at the Gandan Monastery in Mongolia via video. The Mongolian president is on a five-day visit to India. The golden statue with Lord BuddhaRead More

New York India will soar high if Pakistan “stoops low” by raising the Kashmir issue at a high-level UN General Assembly session here next week, India’s top envoy to the United Nations has asserted, warning that Islamabad may mainstream “hate speech” after normalising terrorism in the past. With an anticipatedRead More

New Delhi Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday that he was “amazed” at what Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ready to do for a stock market bump ahead of his ‘HowdyModi’ event in Houston, which he termed as the world’s most expensive jamboree ever. He said no event canRead More

Washington US President Donald Trump’s decision to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the mega ‘Howdy Modi’ rally in Houston over the weekend is a truly historic tribute to the contributions of the Indian-Americans, a top US diplomat has said. The White House has announced that Trump would join ModiRead More

Bengaluru Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would be flying in indigenously-built light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas from the HAL airport in Bengaluru on Thursday, senior officials said. He will be the first defence minister to fly in the aircraft. A Defence Ministry official on Wednesday said the minister is “takingRead More

Kabul Taliban suicide attackers killed at least 30 people in Afghanistan on Tuesday, their deadliest bombing taking place near an election rally by President Ashraf Ghani, although he was unhurt. The attacks happened 11 days before Afghanistan’s presidential elections, which Taliban commanders have vowed to violently disrupt, and follow collapsedRead More

Kevadiya Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 69 on Tuesday and began the day with a visit to the Statue of Unity and the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the river Narmada in his home state of Gujarat. The Statue of Unity, billed as the tallest in the world, was inaugurated byRead More

Kuala Lumpur/New Delhi Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday said that his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi did not request the extradition of radical preacher Zakir Naik, but India rebutted, saying the issue did come up when the two leaders met in Russia this month. Mahathir said Modi, whom heRead More

Balasore (Odisha) India on Tuesday successfully flight-tested the indigenously developed air-to-air missile Astra that was fired from a fighter aircraft, said an official statement. The state-of-the-art missile was launched from Sukhoi-30 MKI off the coast of Odisha as part of user trials by the Indian Air Force(IAF), said the statementRead More