Sri Lanka and Pakistan are expected to sign 10 pacts during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visit to Colombo next month. A spokesperson of the Pakistan High Commission said Mr. Sharif would be here “mostly in the first week of January”. The pacts, aimed at imp ....

The U.N. Security Council last Friday unanimously approved a resolution endorsing an international road map for a Syrian peace process, a rare show of unity among major powers on a conflict that has claimed more than a quarter of a million lives. The U.N. plans to co ....

“President Putin gifted me a page from Gandhiji’s diary containing Bapu’s handwritten notes,” Mr. Modi, who is here on a two-day visit, tweeted. 18th century sword “President Putin also gifted an 18th century sword from Bengal, featur ....

The fierce fighting in Helmand, a traditional Taliban stronghold and one of the world's main centres of opium production, has piled pressure on President Ashraf Ghani, already on the defensive as security worsens across the country. The Taliban, who already contr ....

 The Chinese capital Beijing was on Friday enveloped by this year’s worst air pollution with the smog level crossing the most hazardous mark, two days after a red alert for foul weather was lifted. Beijing woke up to very hazy morning on the Christmas Day with ....

A group of senior, but sidelined, BJP leaders — L. K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Shanta Kumar and Yashwant Sinha — waded into the row on Thursday, making it even more difficult for the party to wish it away. Mr. Azad had declared that he would seek help ....

The case of the three men, who paid an agent to get employment in Yemen but were taken to Saudi Arabia instead, caused anger in Kerala, after they sent a video of their employer brutally beating them with a wooden plank earlier this week. According to the men, who were ....

 Home Minister Rajnath Singh asked the troops of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) deployed along the Nepal and Bhutan borders to sharpen their snooping skills and ensure that terrorist groups are not able to “gather” or carry out their nefarious anti-India designs ....

In a blog titled “Stray thoughts after the winter session,” Mr. Jaitley invoked India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru while castigating his party for blocking legislation, especially the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill. Lies with vulgar ov ....

On Monday, NDS (Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security) said they had intercepted a Taliban suicide bomber who had planned an attack at the Indian consulate in Jalalabad, and last week, two suspected ISIS terrorists with 30kg of explosives, also planning an ....