A Russian‑flagged liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker has successfully delivered a cargo from Russia’s Portovaya LNG plant to a terminal in China after nearly six months at sea. This unusual voyage highlights how Moscow is adapting to Western sanctions and using slow, indirect shipping...
Dubai/Washington - President Donald Trump's swift rejection of Iran's response to a U.S. peace proposal sent oil prices surging on Monday amid concerns the 10-week-old conflict will drag on, keeping shipping through the Strait...
New Delhi: Lieutenant General NS Raja Subramani (Retd), who is known within the military circles for being both a soldier-scholar and an operational man, has been appointed the new Chief of Defence Staff and...
New Delhi: India’s Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced this week that Formula 1 is poised to return to the country by 2027, though league officials were quick to dismiss the timeline as overly optimistic.
Mandaviya told...
India’s edible oil imports rose 3% in FY26, driven mainly by a sharp increase in duty-free shipments from Nepal under the South Asian Free Trade Area agreement. The rise highlights how trade flows...
India has relaxed its foreign investment rules for overseas companies that have up to 10% Chinese shareholding, making it easier for such firms to invest in the country. The change is aimed at...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to Norway, called for a peaceful resolution of the ongoing conflicts in West Asia and Ukraine. He said military action alone cannot solve such crises and stressed that dialogue and diplomacy remain the only sustainable path to peace.
Speaking after bilateral talks in Oslo, Modi reiterated India’s long-standing position that disputes must be settled through negotiations rather than war. He also underlined that the world needs stronger cooperation to reduce conflict and protect global stability.
Modi’s remarks came at a time when tensions remain high in both regions. The war in Ukraine continues to affect security, energy supplies, and global markets, while the West...
India’s edible oil imports rose 3% in FY26, driven mainly by a sharp increase in duty-free shipments from Nepal under the South Asian Free Trade Area agreement. The rise highlights how trade flows...
BEIJING - A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump predicted that towering trade tariffs would bring America's main economic rival to heel.
He heads to China this week with that ambition blunted by court rulings,...
On the outer wall of the Airavatesvara Temple in Tamil Nadu, a 12th-century stone carving shows a woman giving birth while standing upright, supported...
On April 7, Anthropic, the AI company behind the coding and productivity-focused Large Language Model (LLM) family Claude, announced Mythos. This is its most...
Sudan's devastating civil war has reached its fourth year, prompting a dire warning from the United Nations' top aid official. Denise Brown, UN Humanitarian...
In 2024 alone, the UN verified around 4,500 cases of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), though the real number is likely much higher. An overwhelming...
Gaza: On 4th January 2025, Israel has ordered the evacuation of two major hospitals in northern Gaza, the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital, as...