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The COVID-19 outbreak which began in a market in China's Wuhan district in December last year has spread throughout the world. There are over 80 confirmed cases in India. India has also started evacuating its citizens from other countries after the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and said that Europe is the ne...

A 68-year-old woman has died of coronavirus in Delhi, the government said on Friday, in the second death linked to the global pandemic in the country.

The inclusion of two sparring neighbours into a grouping led by India's regional nemesis is enough to make any head turn and ask whether individual nations will be able to leave aside bilateral differences for the greater good, or whether, like SAARC, cooperation here too will become hostage to the India-Pakistan dispute.

Prime Minister Modi would do well to heed these words and join the Belt and Road Initiative. Joining BRI does not mean declaring that India has no more differences with China. But it does mean India and China have embarked on a road that will reduce their differences and promise a better future for both.

ISRO or the Indian Space Research Organisation has this morning reported good weather and smooth progress in a 28-hour countdown for the launch of the GSAT-9 or the South Asia Communication Satellite from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. Lift-off is at 4.57 pm today. Pakistan has opted out and the Rs 450-crore project, India's gift to its neighbours,...

India is ready to launch Prime Minister Narendra Modi's gift - a communications satellite made under a Rs 450-crore project. Seven nations, including India which are part of SAARC, will use the satellite. But most of them have their fledgling space programmes. In real terms, the biggest beneficiaries could be Bhutan and Maldives, which have none. P...

A 28-hour countdown is underway for India's gift to its neighbours -- the Rs 235-crore South Asia Satellite -- which will lift off today from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. India's space diplomacy is seen as a move to counter to China's growing influence in the area. While seven nations that are part of SAARC, including India, will use the satellit...

Pakistan is exploring the possibility of creating a greater South Asian economic alliance to include China, Iran and neighbouring Central Asian republics as part of its bid counter India's influence in SAARC, a media report said today.

India has experienced negative growth in exports due to various factors like stagnation in EU countries, slowdown in China and fall in commodity and crude oil prices, Parliament was informed on Monday.

From being in the midst of a disturbed neighbourhood, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's relations with its neighbours have improved, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.

India pledged a slew of regional investments at the South Asian summit in Nepal this week, seeking to counter China's growing economic inroads into its backyard.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seven other South Asian leaders gathered for a summit in Kathmandu are meeting in a conference centre donated by China to its cash-strapped Himalayan neighbour Nepal 27 years ago.

China's aggressive campaign to push for full membership of SAARC does not appear to be happening for now. Senior government sources have told NDTV that at the SAARC foreign ministers' meeting today, Pakistan demanded a greater role for China as an observer in the grouping. China is already an observer along with 8 other countries like the US and Ja...

Ahead of the SAARC summit in Nepal this week, China's official media today stirred up a debate about whether the country should elevate its role in the eight-member group from an observer to that of an active member to expand its influence in South Asia.

In tune with its initiative to improve ties with neighbours, the Narendra Modi government has invited heads of Indian missions in these countries including China and Pakistan for a day-long conclave in New Delhi on Monday. The move is aimed at charting out "concrete follow-up plan" with each country within specified timelines.

The COVID-19 outbreak which began in a market in China's Wuhan district in December last year has spread throughout the world. There are over 80 confirmed cases in India. India has also started evacuating its citizens from other countries after the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and said that Europe is the ne...

A 68-year-old woman has died of coronavirus in Delhi, the government said on Friday, in the second death linked to the global pandemic in the country.

The inclusion of two sparring neighbours into a grouping led by India's regional nemesis is enough to make any head turn and ask whether individual nations will be able to leave aside bilateral differences for the greater good, or whether, like SAARC, cooperation here too will become hostage to the India-Pakistan dispute.

Prime Minister Modi would do well to heed these words and join the Belt and Road Initiative. Joining BRI does not mean declaring that India has no more differences with China. But it does mean India and China have embarked on a road that will reduce their differences and promise a better future for both.

ISRO or the Indian Space Research Organisation has this morning reported good weather and smooth progress in a 28-hour countdown for the launch of the GSAT-9 or the South Asia Communication Satellite from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. Lift-off is at 4.57 pm today. Pakistan has opted out and the Rs 450-crore project, India's gift to its neighbours,...

India is ready to launch Prime Minister Narendra Modi's gift - a communications satellite made under a Rs 450-crore project. Seven nations, including India which are part of SAARC, will use the satellite. But most of them have their fledgling space programmes. In real terms, the biggest beneficiaries could be Bhutan and Maldives, which have none. P...

A 28-hour countdown is underway for India's gift to its neighbours -- the Rs 235-crore South Asia Satellite -- which will lift off today from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. India's space diplomacy is seen as a move to counter to China's growing influence in the area. While seven nations that are part of SAARC, including India, will use the satellit...

Pakistan is exploring the possibility of creating a greater South Asian economic alliance to include China, Iran and neighbouring Central Asian republics as part of its bid counter India's influence in SAARC, a media report said today.

India has experienced negative growth in exports due to various factors like stagnation in EU countries, slowdown in China and fall in commodity and crude oil prices, Parliament was informed on Monday.

From being in the midst of a disturbed neighbourhood, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's relations with its neighbours have improved, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.

India pledged a slew of regional investments at the South Asian summit in Nepal this week, seeking to counter China's growing economic inroads into its backyard.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seven other South Asian leaders gathered for a summit in Kathmandu are meeting in a conference centre donated by China to its cash-strapped Himalayan neighbour Nepal 27 years ago.

China's aggressive campaign to push for full membership of SAARC does not appear to be happening for now. Senior government sources have told NDTV that at the SAARC foreign ministers' meeting today, Pakistan demanded a greater role for China as an observer in the grouping. China is already an observer along with 8 other countries like the US and Ja...

Ahead of the SAARC summit in Nepal this week, China's official media today stirred up a debate about whether the country should elevate its role in the eight-member group from an observer to that of an active member to expand its influence in South Asia.

In tune with its initiative to improve ties with neighbours, the Narendra Modi government has invited heads of Indian missions in these countries including China and Pakistan for a day-long conclave in New Delhi on Monday. The move is aimed at charting out "concrete follow-up plan" with each country within specified timelines.