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External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar met with leaders from various countries on the sidelines of the Raisina Dialogue 2026 in New Delhi. Dr. Jaishankar held bilateral discussions with his counterparts from Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Mauritius, Kenya, Malta, Seychelles, and Rwanda yesterday.In a...

New Delhi, March 6 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held separate bilateral talks with his counterparts from Sri Lanka and Bhutan on Friday, and discussed ways to further enhance India's cooperation with the two neighboring countries.On the sidelines of the Raisina Dialogue here...

New Delhi/Chennai, March 6 The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday claimed to have busted a transnational drug trafficking racket with the arrest of five persons, including a Sri Lankan refugee, and the seizure of 78 kg of narcotics.The alleged racket was operating across India, Nepal...

New Delhi, March 6 Days before the US torpedoed and sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena, India approved emergency docking for another Iranian naval vessel in Kochi after it developed a technical problem, government sources said on Friday.The vessel, docked in Kochi on March 4 with its 183 crew...

New Delhi, March 6 – The NCB has busted an international drug trafficking network linking Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka, arresting five individuals and seizing 77.60 kg of Hashish Oil and 2 kg of Charas, valued at nearly Rs 10 crore, an official said on Friday.Acting on credible intelligence...

External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar met with leaders from various countries on the sidelines of the Raisina Dialogue 2026 in New Delhi. In a social media post, Dr. Jaishankar announced that he had meetings with the Foreign Minister of Malta, Ian Borg, as well as the Foreign Minister of...

New Delhi, March 6 India has allowed the urgent docking of an Iranian ship in Kochi and provided accommodation to its 183 crew members, government sources said on Friday.The ship, IRIS Lavan, developed urgent technical issues and was granted emergency docking approval on March 1, following a...

New Delhi, March 6 Top government sources on Friday described claims that the Indian Navy provided intelligence to the US about an Iranian frigate that was sunk by a US military submarine two days ago off the coast of Sri Lanka as "baseless and preposterous."There is no question of providing...

New Delhi, March 6 The Left questioned the Centre on Friday over the US' announcement of a "waiver" to Indian refiners for purchasing Russian oil, calling it a "humiliation" of sovereign India.In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the country has not faced such a "grave national...

Hyderabad, March 6 AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "break his silence" on the conflict in West Asia and urged US President Donald Trump to end the war.Addressing a gathering here, he also asked the PM to provide a full account of the sinking...

Colombo, March 6 In light of potential threats to national security, Sri Lankan police on Friday said that all police stations have been instructed to monitor businesses involved in the import, sale, and repair of drones and their spare parts.The police headquarters in a statement said that...

Colombo, March 6 The post-mortem examination on the bodies of Iranian sailors recovered from the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena has been completed, hospital sources said on Friday.Sri Lanka said on Wednesday that it had recovered the bodies of 84 Iranian sailors after the US submarine attack sank...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 6 The Sri Lankan government has expressed interest in understanding Kerala's model for engaging the diaspora of scholars, the KSHEC said on Friday.In light of this interest from Sri Lanka, a knowledge-sharing session was held on Friday between officials of the Sri...

Chennai, March 6 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday questioned why India needed approval from another country to meet its own energy needs.His statement comes after the US issued a temporary 30-day waiver allowing Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil, amid escalating tensions...

New Delhi, March 6 Top government sources on Friday described claims that the Indian Navy provided intelligence to the US about an Iranian frigate that was sunk by a US military submarine two days ago as "baseless and preposterous".There is no question of providing any input to the US on this...

March 06, New Delhi: The Sri Lankan Navy had earlier disembarked 208 crew members from a second Iranian vessel off the island's coast.This development follows a U.S. submarine attack on a first Iranian warship in the same region, which resulted in 87 deaths and several others missing.Anura...

Hyderabad, March 6 – AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday demanded that the Indian government issue a clear statement and condemn the US Navy sinking an Iranian warship close to Indian waters.The Hyderabad MP wanted the government to clarify whether the Trump administration informed it...

Kolkata, March 6 In this era of changing geopolitics, oceans have once again come to the center of the world's power balance, and it is India's responsibility to provide leadership with confidence and capability, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday, referring to the escalating conflict...

New Delhi, March 6 Two days after a US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, Iran on Friday warned that the attack on an "unarmed ship" cannot go unpunished.The Iranian frigate, IRIS Dena, was returning home after participating in the Milan multilateral...

Colombo, March 6 Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that the government has taken over operations concerning the Iranian ship IRIS Bushehr and its crew as a neutral state, as authorities move to bring the crew ashore and relocate the ship away from the country's main commercial...