ISTANBUL (AA) – Though thousands of miles away, the residents of a small village Thulasendrapuram in Tamil Nadu, southern India, gathered to pray for the victory of US Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election. This village is where her maternal grandfather was born, and although Kamala Harris has never visited and has no ...
India has lodged a protest after Canada linked Indian Home Minister Amit Shah to plots targeting the Sikh community on Canadian soil. Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said on Saturday that a representative of the Canadian High Commission was summoned on Friday and handed a note. Jaiswal said the note conveyed that the Indian [...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The cyber defense agency charged with keeping foreign actors from infiltrating Canada’s computer networks identified India as a cyber threat for the first time, according to a recent report. “We assess that Indian state-sponsored cyber threat actors likely conduct cyber threat activity against the Government of Canada ne...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted support for minorities in Bangladesh, and promised to build strong ties with India this week. He wrote on social media platform X: “I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are getting attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh, w...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – At least six construction workers, two of them non-natives, and a doctor were killed in the Indian-occupied Kashmir over the weekend, officials said. The killings were reported at a construction site in Gagangir area of central Ganderbal district. According to the officials, the workers were working on ...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India and China have reached an agreement on patrolling arrangements along the disputed border in Indian occupied Ladakh, according to a senior Indian Foreign Ministry official. “Over the last several weeks, Indian and Chinese diplomats and military negotiators have been in close contact with each other, and as a result ...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Foreign Minister Melanie Joly on Friday put the remaining Indian diplomats in the country “on notice” that Canada will not tolerate any more criminal activity on its territory. The warning follows the expulsion earlier this week of six Indian diplomats after Canada’s national police force said there is ample eviden...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) — After six years, an elected government has been sworn in in Indian-controlled Kashmir, amid concerns that its limited powers might not meet the expectations of the people. Omar Abdullah, who had previously served as a chief minister of the Muslim-majority occupied region and junior foreign minister in the Ind...
The chief of India’s ultra-Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is blaming external forces for toppling the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh. Mohan Bhagwat has expressed alarm over threats to Hindus in Bangladesh. Speaking at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, Bhagwat claimed the regime change was orchestrated for selfish pur...
In a significant diplomatic gesture, a Chinese naval fleet docked in the city of Chittagong in Bangladesh on Saturday. It is the first foreign fleet to visit since Bangladesh’s interim government took power in early August. China’s ambassador to Bangladesh, Yao Wen, reaffirmed his nation’s unwavering commitment to fostering strong bilate...
