In 2017, India opened two air corridors with cargo flights between Kabul, Kandahar, New Delhi, and Mumbai bypassing Pakistan in an effort to boost trade with the landlocked country. Subsequently, Pakistan’s exports of goods to Afghanistan...
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - Six Indians died, six went missing and four were rescued during a fire on two tankers in the Black Sea on Monday, India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement Wednesday.
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Credit: Getty ImagesBy Chandra BhushanNEW DELHI, Jan 23 2019 (IPS)As I was attending the 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—to create a rulebook to operationalise the Paris Agreement—in...
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) — Indian National Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi recently challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “be a man” and not hide behind a “woman minister” in order to dodge uneasy questions about the Rafale deal. The...
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - Nirmal Rai, the alleged spy, earlier worked in Dubai where he came into contact with a Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operative who advised him to work as a porter for the Indian Army to spy on the force, according...
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - India will receive S-400 air defense systems within the timeframe agreed under contract with Russia, without delays, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Wednesday.
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The Delhi-based Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) reports that India witnessed its highest rate of leopard mortality in four years in 2018; 155 of the 460 leopards that died were killed by poachers, while 74 were the victims of road or...
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Credit: Getty ImagesBy Jagriti GangopadhyayNEW DELHI, Jan 7 2019 (IPS)A Chinese researcher has claimed that he helped make world’s first genetically edited babies but the development may come at a heavy cost. A designer baby is a GM human embryo...
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India and Afghanistan have held a high-level security meet in New Delhi on Friday amid changing scenario in the war-torn nation. National security advisors of the two countries along with a large number of security officials discussed the regional...
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The air quality in one of the world's largest cities became so bad in the past two days that it is not fit to breathe, even for healthy people.
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Some people may call him an “accidental model” but his success has proved he was meant to be one. Born and raised in Delhi, Karan Oberoi never aimed at pursuing a career in modelling. After graduating with B.Com (Hons) degree from Sri...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – At least six people, including a minor child, were killed and eight others sustained injuries as a blast at an industrial unit, manufacturing fan blades, in New Delhi led to a partial collapse of the facility, local media...
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - India will start receiving Russian-made S-400 air defense systems in 2020 with deliveries expected to last through 2023, Indian Union Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre said on Wednesday.
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Smoking a specific strain of weed might help you win friends, according to the police in India’s national capital.
But don’t view it as gratuitous advice from one of India’s best-known law enforcement agencies—it is not.
This amusing...
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Dave Majumdar
Security, Asia
It would not be a total shock.
Fact: It’s not a huge surprise that a Russian-built Kilo would be able to defeat a Los Angeles-class attack boat.
Is it possible that one of New Delhi’s...
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This week, Delhi residents are battling toxic air once again.
On Dec. 23 and Dec. 24, as the weather got chillier and fog engulfed the city, India’s national capital reportedly experienced its most polluted days of the year, with the air...
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Many Delhi residents were forced to spend Christmas indoors this year as air quality remained at "severe to emergency" levels for a fourth day, in the Indian capital's worst smog crisis this year.
Senior officials predicted the severe pollution...
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - The US policy in the Middle East has failed and is therefore the reason behind US President Donald Trump's recent decision to withdraw troops from Syria, Syrian Ambassador to India Riad Abbas told Sputnik in an interview.
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The foreign ministers of India and China on Friday discussed steps to deepen ties through academic exchanges and tourism even as they vie for influence with their smaller neighbors.
Sushma Swaraj and Wang Yi at their meeting in New Delhi took up...
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Photo courtesy: Charlotte AndersonBy Nalini Khurana and Ravi VermaNEW DELHI, Dec 20 2018 (IPS)Most initiatives around Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) are largely myopic in their approach. Failure to recognise the role of men and...
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