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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj addresses the United Nations General Assembly. (Photo: AP)

At UN, India must widen its horizons

India scored brownie points through a calibrated attack on Pakistan in what was finally just a little more sophisticated...

25 Sept 2017 1:20 AM IST

Exercising her right to reply after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday hit out at Pakistan for creating terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul Mujahideen and the Haqqani Network, Lodhi alleged that India had levelled allegations against Pakistan to divert world attention from brutalities in Kashmir. (Photo: AP/Twitter)

Pak dubs India as 'mother of terrorism', calls it world's largest...

Addressing the UN general assembly on Saturday, Sushma Swaraj slammed Pakistan and said it was the 'pre-eminent export...

24 Sept 2017 1:43 PM IST

Pak using 'Jihad' for its foreign policy goals in J&K: UN experts

Prof. Boris Wilke, a senior researcher and political scientist claimed that 'terrorism is a strategy and not a creed.'

20 Sept 2017 7:52 PM IST

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We need to come together to build a brave world: Priyanka gives...

The actress said that it was an honour for her to address leaders of world importance on empowering young girls.

20 Sept 2017 5:10 PM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (Photo: PTI)

At UN, look beyond Pak

India must move on from obsessing with Pakistan's terror tactics, that have been persistently amplified at many forums,...

19 Sept 2017 12:29 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, celebrates what was said to be the test launch of an intermediate range Hwasong-12 missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Photo: AP)

In new dig, Trump mocks North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un as 'Rocket Man'

Trump tweeted that he and South Korean President Moon Jae-in discussed North Korea during their latest telephone...

18 Sept 2017 3:53 PM IST

India has identified Masood Azhar, the chief of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, as the mastermind of the Pathankot terror attack on January 2, 2016. (Photo: AP)

Centre to not sit idle until Masood Azhar brought to justice:...

China has repeatedly blocked India's attempt at the UN to designate Azhar as a global terrorist.

17 Sept 2017 6:00 PM IST

Archaeologist Dieter Noli sits in the sand with gold coins from the wreck of a 16th century Portuguese ship that was discovered in a diamond-mining area on Namibias Atlantic coast, in Oranjemund. (Photo: AP)

In Namibia, 1533 Portuguese shipwreck's relics hidden away

More than 2,000 gold coins from the wreck, most of them Spanish and Portuguese, are in a central bank vault in Windhoek,...

17 Sept 2017 1:03 PM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (Photo: File)

Mamata Banerjee sides with UN, says all Rohingyas not terrorists

An estimated 3,80,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled Myanmar and reached Bangladesh.

16 Sept 2017 2:00 AM IST

Widespread allegations of rape have raised fears that Myanmars security forces are systematically using sexual violence against the stateless Rohingya. (Photo: Representational Image/AFP)

Myanmar leader Suu Kyi to address nation on Sept 19 over Rohingya...

Critics have called for her to be stripped of her Nobel prize for failing to do more to halt the strife.

14 Sept 2017 4:00 PM IST

A Rohingya refugee carries two children in buckets as they arrive at Shah Porir Dwip in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Saturday. Nearly 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmars Rakhine state into Bangladesh in the 15 days since new violence erupted, the United Nations said on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

UN asks world to come together for Rohingyas

The United Nation's humanitarian wing, he said, has done emergency planning for about 300,000 Rohingya refugees.

14 Sept 2017 7:01 AM IST

Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (Photo: AP)

Pakistan garners China, Russia's support over Trump's criticism:...

Pakistan would also approach other Western nations, especially France and United Kingdom, to drive home its viewpoint,...

13 Sept 2017 7:22 PM IST