Foreign Affairs

  Pentagon: The first Biden administration’s defence budget asks for $715 billion for fiscal 2022, including a $5.5 billion increase in research and development accounts and an $8 billion cut in procurement, signalling a new...

  New Delhi: India May 28 hit out at President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir for his comments on Jammu and Kashmir, saying his 'misleading and prejudiced' remarks does 'great disservice to the...

Washington: American President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed May 25 to meet next month in Geneva, a face-to-face encounter the White House hopes will help bring some predictability to a fraught...

Washington: The Pentagon is looking at how counterterrorism capabilities honed over the past two decades fighting insurgents can contribute to future competition with Russia and China, a Pentagon official said. The Defence Department has called...

  Washington: Even though details of President Joe Biden’s first defence budget won’t be out until May 28, but battle lines are already being drawn by lawmakers on the left and right. For Hill progressives,...

New York: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on May 24 landed here, as part of his US visit, to meet with senior United States officials, and discuss Covid-related cooperation between the two countries....

  Kabul: As the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is to begin soon, former president Hamid Karzai in an interview to a German publication has explained how Pakistan 'would like' Afghanistan to break off relations with...

  Washington: US military equipment could end up in the hands of Taliban fighters and terrorist groups as American troops withdraw thousands of vehicles, weapons and other military items from Afghanistan in coming months, Defence...

Reykjavik (Iceland): The Biden administration is leading a campaign against Russian attempts to assert authority over Arctic shipping and reintroduce a military dimension to discussions over international activity in the area. As Russia assumed the...

  Tel Aviv. The US has in recent weeks increased its military presence in the Gulf region. Israeli sources said on May 18 that the change in the US policy is in part a reaction...

New Delhi: Advocating a tough line to counter China, former National Security Adviser and Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said that India needs to restore deterrence if it wants to stop China from attempting to...

  Tel Aviv. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has delivered hundreds of oxygen concentrators to India, to support the COVID-19 crisis. In addition, IAI responded promptly to India and the Israeli Embassy in India’s request to...

  Paris: A new open letter by a group of serving French soldiers published in a conservative magazine, warned President Emmanuel Macron that the “survival" of France is at stake after he made “concessions" to...