A new phase in Indo-Lanka relations

The advent of the internet has brought a powerful medium into the information domain. Of all the media vectors (print, television and internet-based social media platforms), this is probably the most nebulous, seamless, largest, quickest and hence ...

New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal was the only one among the three people who led the AAP, the BJP and the Congress who won from his constituency. The BJP's Kiran Bedi and the Congress' Ajay Maken were both defeated. Kejriwal defeated his nearest rival, ...

China has reiterated its proposal for a Code of Conduct for Border Control with India, ahead of a meeting between the Special Representatives of the two countries. Beijing is likely to push New Delhi hard on agreeing to a new code of conduct when ...

Bengaluru, Feb 4: Get the latest national and international updates here: I can sacrifice myself for the nation if Modi ji asks me to: Sakshi Maharaj pic.twitter.com/ZD8r4cLBvZ — ANI (@ANI_news) February 4, 2015 3:00 pm:I never said this, ...

02 February 2015 POLITICS & SOCIETY Remarks made by China's education minister in which he encouraged universities to "never let textbooks promoting Western values appear in our classes" have aroused discussion among the public, ...

By Prashant Jha/New Delhi As the controversy about S Jaishankar's appointment as foreign secretary dissipates, the Indian Foreign Service is looking forward to a realignment of the equation between the prime minister's office (PMO) and the ...

BEIJING: In recent years, experience in China has counted in the choice of three foreign secretaries, including S Jaishankar. Between 2006 and 2011, Shiv Shankar Menon and Nirupama Rao, both worked as ambassadors in Beijing before they were elevated ...

Sujatha Singh is the third senior official to have been dismissed since the National Democratic Alliance government came to power at the Centre. The swiftness with which Sujatha Singh was dismissed from the post of foreign secretary, six months before the end of her term, has stunned the bureaucracy at Raisina Hill. The message from the Prime Minister's Office to bureaucrats is unambiguous -- shape up or ship out. The decision to appoint a new foreign secretary, taken by the Cabinet's ...

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj with the newly-appointed foreign secretary S Jaishankar as he takes charge at the ministry of external affairs in New Delhi on Thursday BB Yadav dna Two days before he was to retire from foreign service, ...