World food prices fall slightly in Nov: FAO

Rome (IANS) Increased stability in grain exports from Russia and Ukraine sent global prices for grains and cereals lower in November, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.

The broader FAO Food Price Index was flat compared…

Biden will support 'dear friend' Modi during India's G-20 Presidency

Washington (IANS) US President Joe Biden said on Friday that he is looking forward to "supporting my dear friend" Prime Minister Narendra Modi during India's G-20 Presidency.

India assumed the rotational G-20 chair for a year on Thursday,…

In day showing New Delhi's rising global profile, India becomes UNSC president

United Nations (IANS) In a day marking India's rising global profile, it assumed the presidency of the UN Security Council -- hours after taking over the leadership of the G20, with the promise of working to promote unity in a fractured world.

India stands tall, proud and no one pushes it around: Kamboj

United Nations (IANS) India is a big country that "stands tall and proud on its own" with its own relations with competing international blocs and nobody pushes it around.

That was the message from India's Permanent Representative Ruchira…

As largest democracy with 2,500-year legacy, no one preaches to India: Kamboj

United Nations (IANS) As the world's largest democracy with a legacy going back millenniums, nobody needs to preach to India, New Delhi's Permanent Representative to the UN Ruchira Kamboj said.

"We don't need to be told what to…

1971 Dhaka debacle was 'military failure', says Bilawal Bhutto

Islamabad (IANS) Exactly a week after former Pakistan Army Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa referred to the East Pakistan loss as a "political failure", Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in a thinly-veiled rejection of the claim insisted that the Dhaka…

China plans crackdown after Covid protests

Beijing (IANS) China's top security agency has called for a crackdown on "hostile forces" after rare protests against the government strict zero-Covid policy broke out across major cities during the weekend, the media reported.

Police officers…

5 Palestinians killed in West Bank amid rising violence

Ramallah (IANS) Five Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers in four separate incidents in the West Bank, prompting condemnation and calls for stopping the rising violence.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry…

Belarus Foreign Minister was killed by Kremlin assassins, claim reports

London (IANS) Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei was poisoned in a Kremlin sting operation, extraordinary new reports have claimed, according to a media report.

The veteran diplomat and former spy died suddenly on Sunday amid claims that…

'Xi step down' - protests erupt in China over harsh Covid curbs

New Delhi (IANS) Protests against Chinese government's strict Covid measures have intensified with people taking to the streets against President Xi Jinping's harsh zero-Covid policy.

Thousands of protesters turned out in Shanghai,…