Panaji, May 24 (IANS) The border problem between India and China is a colonial heritage and Russia is glad that both countries could diplomatically resolve it, Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin said Saturday. Kadakin was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the Russian consul office in Panaji. “The border problem [...]

Panaji, May 24 (IANS) Long-delayed aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is undergoing trials and could be in India by December, Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin said Friday. The Russian ambassador also complained that the delay in handing over of the Russian aircraft carrier to India was being written about extensively, as compared [...]

Islamabad, May 24 (IANS) Pakistani government Friday reiterated its opposition to US drone strikes on its territory, saying the strikes were “counter-productive” and “entail loss of innocent civilian lives”. The statement came from the Pakistan foreign ministry, hours after US President Barack Obama defended the use of the drone missions [...]

Beijing, May 24 (IANS) President Xi Jinping Friday reaffirmed China’s stance of denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula while stressing that targets should be met by all parties involved irrespective of how the situation evolved. During his meeting with Choe Ryong Hae, the special envoy of Nork Korean leader Kim Jong [...]

Islamabad, May 24 (IANS) Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal Friday called on Nawaz Sharif, who is set to become the prime minister of Pakistan, and discussed ways of strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries, Geo News reported. Sharif told Sabharwal that Pakistan wanted to resolve all the issues at [...]

New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) India and the US will find an “appropriate” way to decide on New Delhi’s request for access to Mumbai attack plotter David Headley, US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman said Friday. Sherman, who separately met External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Foreign Secretary Ranjan [...]

Los Angeles: Actress Amanda Seyfried feels she looked better with bigger breasts, but she says she had to lose a bit of overall weight for her Hollywood journey. “I looked way better when I was 15. I had beautiful huge breasts and then I came to Hollywood and I was like, [...]

Tel Aviv, May 24 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The sale of S-300 air defence systems by Russia to Syria would be “destabilising” for the region, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. “S-300 missiles coming from Russia, or other countries, Iranian missiles, are destabilising to the region,” Kerry said. “The United States [...]

Islamabad, May 23 (IANS) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday urged China and Pakistan to nurture even closer ties, and enhance comprehensive strategic cooperation while addressing Pakistan’s parliament. In a speech titled “Let all-weather China-Pakistan friendship bear new fruits,” Li said peace, development and cooperation is the theme of the [...]

New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) Iraq’s Water Resources Minister Mohanad Salman Al-Sady Thursday met his Indian counterpart Harish Rawat to discuss proposed memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the area of water management between the two countries. An official release said the two sides discussed draft of MoU, avenues for training [...]