On a sunny evening, under a clear blue sky, with a bracing breeze fluttering the tricolour, 1,000 bandsmen of the Indian armed forces brought music alive on Thursday at the Beating Retreat ceremony which brings the curtain down on the four-day Republic Day celebrations....
‘India will succeed as long as it's not splintered along religious lines...nowhere is it more important to uphold religious freedom than in India,’ President Obama said while speaking at the Siri Fort auditorium....
Sujatha Singh, whose service as foreign secretary was "curtailed" seven months before her two-year term was to end, in her farewell letter to colleagues stressed on the "institutional strength" of the ministry of external affairs (MEA) and that "no individual is larger than the institution"....
S. Jaishankar, India's envoy to the US who was seen as having played a catalytic role in the turnaround in bilateral ties, Thursday assumed charge as foreign secretary, a day after the government in a late-night announcement "curtailed" the two-year tenure of incumbent Sujatha Singh seven months before her term was to end....
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Thursday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to bring back black money stashed aboard and wearing costly, personalised fabric suits....
Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) chief Subash Ghising, who gave birth to the Gorkhaland movement, Thursday passed away at a hospital in New Delhi following prolonged illness. He was 79....
The BJP Thursday said it will issue a vision document and not a manifesto for the Feb 7 Delhi assembly polls as it fielded a number of union ministers, chief ministers and MPs to campaign for the party....
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Thursday said she was aware of the move to appoint S. Jaishankar as the new foreign secretary and had spoken about it to incumbent Sujatha Singh....
The BJP Thursday asked AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal why he took support from the Congress to form a government and why did he seek facilities after rejecting them first, but the AAP termed the queries "old and boring" and claimed the party was "panicking"....
S. Jaishankar, India's ambassador to the US who was seen as having played a catalytic role in the turnaround in bilateral relations, assumed charge as India's foreign secretary Thursday, a day after...
