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Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs V Muraleedharan on Friday rejected any claims that India is in talks with a bilateral trade agreement with Afghanistan for the import of Lithium. "There is no proposal for such a bilateral…

Days before al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US drone strike, the Assam police raised concern about a video in which the most-wanted terrorist purportedly made an appeal to his cadres or followers to do “hijrah”…

AAP Rajya Sabha MP and former cricketer HarbhajanSingh on Wednesday raised the issue of attacks on Sikhs and their places of worship in Afghanistan and sought to know why such attacks were targeting Sikhs only. He also expressed…

NEW DELHI: At least 30 Afghan Sikhsincluding children and infants, fleeing from the Taliban are scheduled to arrive in Delhi on Wednesday as religious persecution escalates in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. A non-scheduled commercial flight…

R Ravindra, India’s Charge d’affaires to UN, while addressing at UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine said that India will continue to help its neighbour Sri Lanka to ensure latter’s food security. “India has exported more than 1.8…

India-Pakistan differences over an inclusive connectivity route in Eurasia came to the fore at the SCO foreign ministers' meeting in Tashkent on Friday, with India laying emphasis on the use of Iran's Chabahar port financed by New Delhi…

India is set to participate in a multilateral conference of more than 20 countries on Afghanistan's future, being organised by Uzbekistan from July 25-27, to discuss measures to boost the economy of the landlocked country. At the…

A joint Indo-US Counter Narcotics Working Group (CNWG) meeting was held on Friday to deliberate on drug law enforcement and increase in seizures of heroin from Afghanistan. The two sides also signed an agreement on strengthening…

NEW DELHI: Foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra on Tuesday spoke to Iranian deputy minister Ali Bagheri Kaniwith a focus on the Chabahar port project, the situation in Afghanistan and ways to address common challenges in the region. Kani is…

NEW DELHI: The Taliban have said they will ask the Indian government to expedite return to India of Afghan students who want to resume their studies here. This followed a meeting that the students had on Monday with Afghanistan foreign…