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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday arrived in Xian on a three-day visit to China during which he will hold summit talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on a range of issues including the festering border dispute and China’s plans for infrastructure projects in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Modi, who is undertaking his first visit to China […]
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sent his condolences to the families of the Indian victims of the earthquake. Prime Minister Netanyahu thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing helicopters to assist with the rescue of Israelis and for permitting Israeli relief planes to land in India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Madison Square type of mega event in Shanghai during his upcoming visit to China has generated a “terrific response” from Indian professionals and students based in various cities in the Communist nation. Modi plans to give a speech in Shanghai similar to the one at New York’s Madison Square Garden last […]
23 April is a considered as symbolic date for world literature. World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) is a yearly event organised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing and copyright. World Book […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Indian Diaspora in Toronto’s Ricoh Coliseum a few hours ago today. He was given a ceremonial welcome earlier in Canada’s capital Ottawa. This is the last leg of PM Modi’s 3-nation tour, which included France and Germany. “The Indian flag has four colours and I want to bring four […]
Marking the first standalone bilateral visit in 42 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived today in Canada where the focus will be on setting a “trajectory” in ties through cooperation in energy, including civil nuclear, and attracting trade and technology for India’s development. A significant aspect of the three-day visit will be Modi’s meeting with […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in the French capital on Thursday as a part of 3 nation tour, will on Friday begin his diplomatic engagements after receiving a ceremonial welcome in the morning. A highlight of his today’s schedule will be a boat ride with French President Francois Hollande, which is being described as […]
As many as 147 students have been killed after an Islamist group attacked a university in northeastern Kenya, according to officials. According to them, all four AK-47 carrying gunmen have been shot dead and the rescue operation is over. This is the country’s deadliest attack since the American embassy bombings in 1998. More than 500 […]
Today, a German airliner crashed near a ski resort in the French Alps, killing all 150 people onboard, in the worst plane disaster in mainland France in four decades. France’s junior transport minister said there were “no survivors” from the crash of the Germanwings Airbus A320, a low-cost subsidiary of Lufthansa, in a remote part […]
Tunisia’s prime minister says 21 people are dead after an attack on a major museum, including 17 foreign tourists, and that two or three of the attackers remain at large. Habib Essid told national television that the foreigners included tourists from Poland, Italy, Germany and Spain. He said that two of the attackers were killed […]
