Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday began his visit to France with “fruitful” meetings with his French counterpart Elisabeth Borne and Senate President Gerard Larcher during which he discussed ways to impart new impetus to India’s multifaceted cooperation and time-tested strategic partnership with the key European nation. Modi, who landed here earlier in the day,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin met mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin after the failed Wagner group mutiny last month, the Kremlin says. Prigozhin, who heads the mercenary group, was among 35 Wagner commanders invited to the meeting in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov added. He said that President Putin had given an “assessment” of the Ukraine war...
Foxconn said on Monday it is pulling out of a joint venture with Taiwan’s Foxconn said on Monday it has withdrawn from a $19.5 billion semiconductor joint venture with Indian metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta Ltd that was set up to make semiconductors from India. Foxconn says not proceeding with Vedanta JV on mega semiconductor plan. “Foxconn is working to remove...
US President Joe Biden departed on Sunday on a three-nation trip that will be dominated by a NATO summit in Lithuania aimed at showing solidarity with Ukraine in its fight against Russia while not yet accepting Kyiv as a member of the alliance. Biden’s first stop will be in London, where he will meet British...
For the first time ever, Dubai’s total population has surpassed 3.6 million. According to fresh data from the Dubai Statistics Centre, the population of Dubai sat at 3.55 million people at the end of 2022. Fast forward 6 months, and the population of the city has increased by an impressive 50,000 in just six months. That’s...
India on Thursday sought firm action from all countries where pro-Khalistan groups are conducting campaigns to incite violence against Indian diplomats and missions, and said freedom of expression shouldn’t be misused to propagate separatism and legitimise terrorism. India has slammed Pakistan for its “politically-motivated” and “venomous” remarks that referred to Jammu and Kashmir during a...
Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms Inc., has officially introduced Threads, a new application explicitly developed to directly compete with Twitter. This launch poses the most significant challenge to Elon Musk’s ailing social media platform to date. As reported by Bloomberg, Threads, the newly unveiled app by Instagram, offers users the ability to share text, links, and engage in...
The first IIT campus outside India will come up in Tanzania’s Zanzibar, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for setting up of a campus of IIT Madras in Zanzibar, which is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. The agreement was inked...
His address to a virtual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit was his first to an international meeting since last month’s mutiny in Russia. Mr Putin backed trade accords between SCO nations in local currencies – seen as an attempt to blunt sanctions. The 2023 SCO summit is taking place virtually, under India’s leadership. Mr Putin used...
The Indian consulate in San Francisco was set on fire allegedly by Khalistani supporters in the early hours of Sunday. This is the second such attack on the consulate in five months; Khalistani supporters had vandalised the Indian Consulate in March. The incident was “strongly condemned” by the US. Diya TV, a local channel, shared a...