Pakistani Chief of Naval Staff Adm. Zafar Mahmood Abbasi traveled to Tehran for a meeting on Tuesday with Iranian Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari to discuss increasing military cooperation between the two countries, including more joint air, ground, and naval military exercises.
LONDON (AP) – The top civil servant in Britain’s Foreign Office has apologized for calling one of India’s holiest Sikh temples a mosque. Simon McDonald referred to the Golden Temple in Amritsar as the “Golden Mosque” in a tweet. On
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration reportedly proposed an amendment to the country’s Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO) on Friday that would inflict the death penalty on criminals convicted of raping children under the age of 12.
Chief Minister Biplab Deb of Tripura state in India closed out his first month in office with a speech at a computerization workshop on Monday in which he claimed India invented the Internet about 3,000 years ago.
The United States and India, the largest democracies in the world, are reportedly exploring ways to work together to tame communist China’s increasingly aggressive economic and military efforts across Asia as soon as possible.
A popular Indian actress staged a topless display in support of the #MeToo movement in an attempt to draw attention to sexual harassment in the country’s film industry.
Indian-administered Kashmir is facing widespread unrest involving violent clashes between student protesters and Indian police, the beheading of a man by Pakistan-linked terrorists, and deadly gunfights pitting security forces against militants, all of which ultimately prompted authorities to impose travel restrictions.
Violence and unrest erupted throughout northern and central India on Monday as thousands of Dalits, members of Hinduism’s lowest caste, protested against an order by India’s Supreme Court that weakens legal safeguards put in place for their community in 1989.
Contents: Massive new anti-India violence in Kashmir leads to 20 deaths; Uprising in Kashmir continues to grow into war between India and Pakistan
As Christians around the world prepare to observe the holy weekend of Easter, many will be asked at their services to pray for the persecuted around the world.
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was spotted wearing a cast on her arm on Thursday, during a paid speech to students at Rutgers University.
Beijing recently declared the Doklam border region, home to a standoff between regional rivals India and China last year, an undisputed “Chinese territory,” once again provoking tensions with New Delhi.
Contents: Massive earth fissure suddenly opens up in mid-Kenya, signaling an eventual split in all of Africa; How China would lose a war with the United States; ISIS-linked terrorists in Afghanistan kill 32 in bombing of Shia Shrine in Kabul
Contents: Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board overwhelmed by migrants crossing border from US; Turkey achieves victory in Afrin, Syria, but Kurds threaten guerilla war
A top Pakistani military spokesman accused India of fueling terrorism “using Afghan soil” in an interview published Sunday, citing alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav currently in Islamabad’s custody as an example.
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defended her controversial comment trying to explain why the majority of white women voted for her opponent Donald Trump.
Failed former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues to suffer mishaps on her foreign trip to India.
China’s state-run Global Times argued in an editorial Thursday that some “Hindu extremists” affiliated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India consider the Taj Mahal a “stain on Indian history” given the temple’s Muslim roots.
Democrats are fuming after Hillary Clinton made a few comments rehashing why she lost the election to President Trump.
Contents: Trump blocks Broadcom acquisition of Qualcomm over national security; Government urges not doing business with China’s Huawei and ZTE
While in India Monday for the India Today Conclave, Hillary Clinton tripped two times while going down a flight of stairs, requiring the help of two men to complete the trek. Per Daily Wire, Clinton was visiting Jahaz Mahal in Dhar’s
Contents: Portions of Indian-governed Kashmir shut down after deadly clashes; Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) becomes leading jihadist group in Kashmir
Over a year after it was formed in secret, Reuters reported Monday on the existence of a special team of scholars commissioned by the government of India to “prove that today’s Hindus are directly descended from the land’s first inhabitants many thousands of years ago, and make the case that ancient Hindu scriptures are fact not myth.”
The chief of the Army staff in India reportedly urged his country to prepare for military conflict, indicating that it is within the realm of possibilities for New Delhi to fight a “two front” war with its fellow nuclear-armed neighbors China and its ally Pakistan.
Contents: India and Vietnam sign security agreements for the South China Sea; India’s relationship with Southeast Asian nations overshadowed by China
The United States armed forces remain the most powerful military in the world trailed by Russia, China, India, and France, respectively, reveals the latest Global Firepower (GFP) index, which ranks 133 countries annually.
The Indian government is responding angrily to allegations from a senior Canadian official that rogue Indian officials tried to sabotage Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to the country by arranging the controversial dinner invitation for a businessman with a background in Sikh separatist terrorism.
The day before he is scheduled to return home from India, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally got to meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The two leaders sought to bring an upbeat conclusion to a journey that became a diplomatic nightmare for Canada. Modi greeted Trudeau with a hug, then sat down for bilateral talks.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s disastrous trip to India has been widely mocked amid photos of him in traditional Indian garb.
Canadia Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official trip to Canada has been a subject of controversy yet again after it was revealed he flew a Canadian celebrity chef to India with taxpayer money and invited a known terrorist to dinner.
Just when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seemed to have smoothed out the rough patches in his relationship with India, he ignited another firestorm by inviting a convicted terrorist from the Sikh separatist movement to dinner.
China is “upgrading” its military theater command that covers operations at or near its border with India as it prepares to confront and repel “any threat” from the south, a Chinese armed forces specialist told the communist nation’s propaganda newspaper the Global Times.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose trip to India has been fraught with tension over the issue of Sikh separatists in Punjab, met with one of his chief antagonists on Wednesday and gave assurances that Canada does not support the separatist movement.
A woman in India is fighting for her life at a hospital after she was brutally raped by a gang who used iron poles until they gouged out her intestines, marking the latest sex attack increasingly targeting women in India.
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, the recently elected Communist prime minister of Nepal, said in his first official interview on Monday that he wants to restart a Chinese-led hydroelectric project valued at $2.5 billion as part of a strategy to realign his country away from India and toward China.
Jessica Morse, a Democratic rival to Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) in the 2018 midterm elections, is being accused of “taking credit for things that she did not do” on her resume and on the campaign trail.
The government of India has been criticized for what many interpreted as a deliberate snub of visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday. While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted many other visiting dignitaries in person at the New Delhi airport, he dispatched Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh to do the honors for Trudeau.
Two unlikely partners in South Asia, Taliban supporter Iran and U.S.-allied India, have reportedly expressed a willingness to enhance cooperation against jihadist organizations and drug traffickers in Afghanistan, named the top opium and terrorism-producing region in the world by the Pentagon.
The Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday that Australia, India, Japan, and the United States are considering an alliance to counter China’s growing influence – in particular, the huge “Belt and Road” trade project undertaken by China.
Contents: Iran gives operational control of its Chabahar seaport to India; Comparing Iran’s Chabahar seaport vs Pakistan’s Gwadar seaport
