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Indias Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin. (Photo: PTI)

India remains committed to goal of nuclear weapons-free world: Syed...

UN chief Guterres said only world that is safe from the use of nuke weapons is world that is completely free of atomic...

27 Sept 2017 11:38 AM IST

Indias Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin. (Photo: PTI)

Syed Akbaruddin tells UNSC, 'India seeks zero tolerance against...

Akbaruddin said these terrorist groups should be treated like terrorist organisations with no justifications offered for...

26 Sept 2017 11:56 AM IST

North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un said US President Donald Trump is unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country. (Photo: AFP)

Any claim of declaring war on North Korea absurd: White House defends...

North Korea's top diplomat said Monday that US President Donald Trump's weekend tweet was a 'declaration of war'.

26 Sept 2017 11:03 AM IST

Former US president Barack Obama and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: Youtube)

Obama personally urges Zuckerberg to curb fake news rise on Facebook

The report comes days after Facebook announced it would be handing over to Congress ads bought by Russia linked fake...

25 Sept 2017 2:54 PM IST

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner (Photo: AP)

Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner used personal email for some WH...

The use of a private email account to discuss govt matters is politically freighted issue that factored prominently in...

25 Sept 2017 12:06 PM IST

US President Donald Trump tweeted: Making America Safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our country we cannot safely vet. (Photo: AP)

Will not admit those we cannot safely vet: Trump adds N Korea to new...

New rules, which will impact citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, will go...

25 Sept 2017 9:17 AM IST

James Mattis (Photo: AP)

James Mattis arrives in Delhi today, will hold crucial talks

Trump while announcing his new Afghan policy had asked India to do more to help Afghanistan with its developmental...

25 Sept 2017 6:35 AM IST

The picture used by Pakistans Ambassador to the UN was reported by a number of media outlets as that of Rawia Abu Jomaa, a 17-year-old girl injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza city in 2014. (Photo: Twitter)

Pak envoy goofs up at UN, shows Palestinian as victim of Kashmir...

Earlier on Saturday, Swaraj had said India has risen despite being the principal destination of Pakistan's nefarious...

24 Sept 2017 4:09 PM IST

B-1 bombers are no longer part of the US nuclear force, but they are capable of dropping large numbers of conventional bombs. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Representational)

We are prepared, US warns Kim Jong Un, flies bombers off N Korea coast

This mission is a demonstration of US resolve and a clear message that the president has many military options to defeat...

24 Sept 2017 2:00 PM IST

Exercising her right to reply after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday hit out at Pakistan for creating terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul Mujahideen and the Haqqani Network, Lodhi alleged that India had levelled allegations against Pakistan to divert world attention from brutalities in Kashmir. (Photo: AP/Twitter)

Pak dubs India as 'mother of terrorism', calls it world's largest...

Addressing the UN general assembly on Saturday, Sushma Swaraj slammed Pakistan and said it was the 'pre-eminent export...

24 Sept 2017 1:43 PM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj delivers her speech during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

We are fighting poverty, but Pak fighting against us: Sushma in UN...

The foreign minister spelled out concerns like terrorism, climate change, maritime security, nuclear proliferation and...

23 Sept 2017 8:40 PM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in slated to address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Saturday (Photo: EAM Twitter)

Not just Pak, Swaraj likely to corner China on JeM chief ban in UNGA...

Meanwhile, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj is also likely to clear the air about the India's perspective on Rohingya...

23 Sept 2017 5:05 PM IST