Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that any Western forces deployed to Ukraine would be a “legitimate” target for Moscow’s army, a day after Kyiv’s allies said they had committed to a troop presence in the event of a peace deal. Two dozen countries, led by France and Britain, pledged Thursday to join a “reassurance”…
Kathmandu: The US on Thursday handed over two M28 Skytrucks to the Nepali Army, boosting Nepal’s airlift capacity under a USD 37 million Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grant. With the latest delivery, the Nepali Army now operates five Skytrucks – two provided by the US in 2019 and one purchased directly by Nepal, the US…
New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump said America gets along with India very well but the relationship was “one-sided” for many years since New Delhi was charging Washington “tremendous tariffs”. “No, we get along with India very well,” Trump said in the White House on Tuesday in response to a question on whether he is…
Washington: US President Donald Trump said in a radio interview on Tuesday he was “very disappointed” by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin’s failure to reach a peace deal on Ukraine after their summit in Alaska. “I’m very disappointed in President Putin, I can say that,” Trump told the Scott Jennings radio show when asked if he…
Beijing: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that his country respects Russia’s relations with India, as he called for strengthening Islamabad’s ties with Moscow during his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin here. The two leaders are in China to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin and attend a…
Peshawar: Six soldiers and five terrorists were killed on Tuesday as security forces successfully thwarted a terror attack on the headquarters of a paramilitary force in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the army said. The attack took place in Bannu district when the terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) attempted to breach the…
New York: President Donald Trump’s actions are destroying the partnership with India, a prominent US lawmaker and two former top officials have said, cautioning that the American leader’s “ego” cannot be allowed to destroy a “strategic relationship” with the world’s largest democracy. Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna, the co-chair of the US-India caucus, said he is…
Tianjin: India and Russia on Monday vowed to strengthen their strategic ties against the backdrop of New Delhi’s frictions with the US, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling Russian President Vladimir Putin that the two countries stood “shoulder-to-shoulder” even in the most difficult times. Modi and Putin met on the sidelines of the annual summit…
Tianjin (China) Prime Minister Narendra Modi was offered a lift by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his AURUS limousine to reach the venue of their bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit here on Monday. “The two leaders continued their one-to-one dialogue on the way to the hotel, where they…
Afghanistan: On Monday, the earthquake that struck the eastern Afghanistan region had already claimed the lives of more than 800 people in the region, while injuring more than 2,500, reported the news agency AP, citing a Taliban government spokesman. In a social media post, Indian PM Narendra Modi expressed his sorrow for the loss of…
