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On Thursday, Pakistan declared that there were no ongoing backchannel discussions between Islamabad and New Delhi. The Senate, the upper house of parliament, was informed by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar that “at this time, there is no such thing under way.” Backchannel diplomacy is preferable …

All SCO members, including Pakistan and China, have received official invitations from India to the upcoming meeting of foreign ministers, which will take place in Goa from May 4–5. The invitation also includes Bilawal Bhutto of Pakistan and Qin Gang, the new foreign minister of China. India will host important …

According to data updated on Tuesday by the Union Health Ministry, India experienced an increase of 89 coronavirus infections in a single day. At the same time, the number of active cases decreased by three to stand at 1,931. 4.46 crore cases of Covid were reported in total (4,46,82,104). The …

After Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sweden shouldn’t expect Turkey to support its membership following a protest near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm at the weekend that saw the burning of a copy of the Koran, the U.S. State Department declared on Monday that Finland and Sweden are prepared to …

According to a statement released by the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM), three members of the Islamic State organization were apprehended by US forces during a helicopter and ground raid in eastern Syria, according to a statement released by the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) on Sunday. The terrorists were …

According to data updated on Sunday by the Union Health Ministry, the number of active coronavirus cases increased to 1,960 in India, while there were 140 new infections. The total number of cases involving Covid was 4.46 crore (4,46,81,921). The data updated at 8 am showed that there have been …

Numerous Israelis took to the streets on Saturday night to voice their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government’s plans, which critics claim endanger democracy and freedoms. Days after the inauguration of the most right-wing and religiously conservative administration in the nation’s 74-year history, protesters gathered in Tel Aviv, …

India’s counter-response to terrorism “emanating” from Pakistan and to “aggressive” cross-border skirmishes with China, according to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, showed that the country will not be “coerced” by anyone. The minister said that the Indian Air Force’s airstrikes on Balakot in 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror …

Following complaints that the government was withholding information about the status of the pandemic, China on Saturday reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December. The death toll included 54,435 fatalities from other illnesses when Covid-19 was combined with other illnesses and 5,503 deaths from respiratory …

Authorities in Joshimath, Uttarakhand, declared it a landslide and subsidence-hit zone on Sunday, almost a week after cracks started to appear in numerous roads and hundreds of homes there. The announcement followed a high-level meeting between senior Central government officials, representatives from the state of Uttarakhand, and senior officers from …