BERLIN (AA) – Germany’s chancellor has called on newly industrialized countries like China and India to support a newly founded climate fund for the world’s most vulnerable countries. Addressing the UN climate summit in Dubai, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said climate change remains the world’s biggest challenge, and countries should step up t...
Silkyara Tunnel , India — AFP After 17 days trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel they were building, Indian workers described the horror of their ordeal, and the hopes and prayers that kept them strong. “We were really scared, every moment felt that death was standing nearby,” rescued worker Deepak Kumar told the ...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) — An army officer was among three Indian soldiers killed in Indian-occupied Kashmir on Wednesday, according to police and media reports. Deputy Inspector General of Police Haseeb Mughal told reporters that a team of police and soldiers laid siege on an area in the Kalakote region of Rajouri district, nearly [&h...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India has resumed e-visa services to Canadian nationals, government sources said, easing a diplomatic row over the killing of a Sikh leader in British Columbia in June. The sources did not provide any more details. In October, India began reissuing visas to Canadian nationals for entry, business, medical, and conferences – [&h...
Malé, Maldives – – AFP President Mohamed Muizzu of the Maldives has vowed to expel Indian troops deployed in the strategically located archipelago, in his first speech to the nation after being sworn into power. Muizzu, 45, did not name India — but promised he would deliver on his election promises, key among them a […...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A senior leader of India’s main opposition Congress party has hit out at the international community, calling the death toll of 11,000 from Israeli strikes on Gaza “a deplorable and disgraceful milestone.” “…over 11,000 people killed in Gaza of which almost half are children. One child is being killed every ten […...
ANKARA (AA) – India’s counter-terrorism law enforcement agency has arrested 44 people in raids across the country under an operation that it said was “aimed at dismantling illegal human trafficking support networks,” including in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir. A spokesman for the National Investigation Agency said synchronized ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti accused the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) on Saturday of being behind terror attacks in Pakistan. Bugti condemned Friday’s bombing of an Islamic religious gathering and said nearly 55 people were killed. “We know each and e...
ANKARA (AA) – Indian officials are “examining the authenticity” of a communication issued by the Afghan Embassy which said the mission is closing operations in New Delhi. Indian government sources said to the media that the “authenticity” of the communication purportedly issued by the embassy and its contents are ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US officials raised allegations by Canada that link India to the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist during a meeting with New Delhi’s foreign minister in Washington, the Indian top diplomat said Friday. “They obviously shared US views and assessment on this whole situation,” External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaish...