Randhir Jaiswal, an IFS officer of the 1998 batch, has assumed the role of the foreign ministry spokesman succeeding Arindam Bagchi, who has been appointed India’s representative to the United Nations and other international bodies in Geneva. Read More

India has requested Pakistan to extradite Hafiz Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and a key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, to India from its soil. Islamabad says it has no bilateral treaty with New Delhi to facilitate such a process. Read More

The eight former Indian Navy officers whose death sentence has been commuted by a court of appeal in Qatar will now have to serve between three and 25 years in a Qatari prison. However, it would be tough for India to get these men back to India before the completion of their sentences. Read More

In what should come as an immediate but temporary relief to India, a Qatari court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of eight former Indian Navy personnel to varying prison terms. Read More

France has grounded a plane that took over from Dubai and was going to Nicaragua with over 300 Indians on board when the plane landed at the Vatry airport, 150 kilometres east of Paris, on the suspicion of human trafficking. Read More

France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, will be the chief guest at the main Republic Day celebrations in the national capital on January 26. Macron has acknowledged the invite and announced that he will be in New Delhi for the events. Read More

The deal, valued at approximately ₹6,000 crores and involves the delivery of Akash supersonic surface-to-air missile system, has upset Armenia’s archenemy, Azerbaijan, which has warned that it may destabilize the south Caucasus. Read More

Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, who arrived in the national capital on a three-day visit to India, was accorded a warm reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan by President Droupadi Murmu. Later, Sultan Haitham held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read More

Five Indian-American members of the United States Congress issued a joint statement after being briefed by the Biden administration with classified information on an Indian citizen’s involvement in an alleged assassination plot of a Canadian-American Khalistani activist. Read More

The new Maldivian government of the pro-China president, Mohamed Muizzu, has cancelled an agreement that the Maldives National Defence Force signed with the Indian Navy during the previous government of Ibrahim Mohamed Solih to carry out extensive hydrographic surveys in the atoll nation. Read More