Moscow: To woo tourists from across the world, the Moscow City Tourism Committee is taking several measures and to address payment-related issues the Russian government is planning to come out with a virtual ‘Foreign Tourist Card’, that will enable cashless payments for various services. During the Covid pandemic the tourist flow to Moscow had dropped significantly….
United Nations: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not attend the annual UN General Assembly session later this month and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will address the high-level week, according to the latest provisional list of speakers issued by the UN. The high-level General Debate of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly will begin…
Washington: US President Joe Biden will travel to India next week to participate in the G20 Summit and will have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 8 on the sidelines of the historic meeting, the White House has announced. India, President of the G20, will host global leaders for the Summit…
Colombo: The Indian Naval Ship (INS) ‘Delhi’ arrived at the port of Colombo on a three-day formal visit on Friday to promote cooperation and goodwill between the two navies, the Sri Lankan Navy said. The 163.2 metre-long Destroyer was welcomed by the Sri Lanka Navy in compliance with naval tradition. Manned by a crew of 450,…
Singapore: Tharman Shanmugaratnam, an Indian-origin Singapore-born economist, registered a landslide victory in Singapore’s presidential election on Friday, winning over 70 per cent of votes in the country’s first contested presidential polls since 2011. The 66-year-old former senior minister bagged 70.4 per cent (1,746,427 votes) of the 2.48 million votes cast, while his Chinese-origin rivals Ng Kok…
London: Claire Coutinho, a close aide of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, got a big promotion as his new Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary in a mini reshuffle on Thursday. Coutinho, 38, becomes the second Goan-origin minister after Home Secretary Suella Braverman in the Sunak Cabinet and has a tough brief ahead of her as…
Moscow: Russia will seek to confirm its status as a “reliable and guaranteed supplier” of energy resources and export products to the world at the G20 Summit, the foreign ministry here has said as it confirmed the attendance of foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in New Delhi for the key meeting. Lavrov will attend the meeting instead…
Johannesburg: At least 73 people were killed and 52 others injured after a massive fire broke out on Thursday in a multi-storey building occupied by migrants in the central business district here in South Africa’s biggest city, emergency services said. Authorities said it was unclear what sparked the blaze at the five-storey building in the city…
Singapore: People in Singapore will vote on Friday to elect the country’s ninth president, with former minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam hoping to be the next Indian-origin Singaporean head of the state in a three-way contest. Shanmugaratnam, 66, an Indian-origin Singapore-born economist, formally launched his presidential campaign last month with a pledge to evolve the country’s culture to…
Islamabad: A special court on Wednesday extended till September 13 the judicial remand of Imran Khan in a case related to the alleged disclosure of state secrets, dashing the beleaguered former Pakistan prime minister’s hopes of quick release from jail. Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain, who arrived at Attock jail in the Punjab province to conduct…
