The delegation, led by Stephen Phipson, head of the U.K. Trade and Industry’s Defence and Security Organisation, will comprise heads of eight private companies which include large firms like BAE Systems as well as small enterprises. Briefing Indian journalists, Mr ....

Syrian activists say Islamic State militants have destroyed a nearly 2,000-year-old arch in the ancient city of Palmyra, the latest victim in the group's campaign to destroy historic sites across the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria. The Arch of Triumph was on ....

In his six-page-long response, Mr. Rajapaksa dismissed the government position that the report had been watered down because of a change in government in January. “The most that can be done with a report of this nature is to recommend the setting up of a war cr ....

Ms Clinton said she decided to speak out after concluding that the ongoing debate over whether the pipeline should be built had become a distraction to larger efforts to fight climate change “and unfortunately, from my perspective, one that interferes with our abi ....

Indian sought to reassure U.S. investors that the Modi government was taking measures to ease doing business in India. The U.S. corporate sector continued to flag weak contract enforcement, unpredictable policy and tax regimes, opaque regulatory mechanisms and rigid lab ....

The beginning of Russian drone flights underscored the risks of U.S.-led coalition planes and Russian aircraft operating within Syria's limited airspace, without agreeing on coordination or objectives in Syria's civil war. The Pentagon declined comment at a n ....

Pope Francis’ chartered plane from Cuba touched down at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where President Barack Obama and his wife and daughters paid him the rare honour of meeting him at the bottom of the stairs on the red-carpeted tarmac. Presidents usually m ....

According to a legend that refuses to die, the infamous 1989 blockade of Nepal was triggered when King Birendra snubbed prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Earlier, Rajiv Gandhi on a tour of Islamabad for the fourth SAARC summit in 1988, had requested the king for a breakfast-meet ....

President Ram Baran Yadav promulgated the charter intended to unite the country, but it has already exacerbated divisions in some places with 40 people killed in protests against it in recent weeks. “Our country is multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious a ....

The demonstrators were in critical condition after police opened fire at an anti-Constitution protest in the city of Biratnagar, said Pramod Kharel, a deputy police superintendent in the Morang district of southern Nepal. "The confrontation between police and an ....