Amid Covid challenges, ‘historic milestones’ set in India-US ties: Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu

Despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, there have been some historic milestones in the India-US relationship, New Delhi’s top envoy here said. “Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, there have been some historic milestones. We saw Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi’s landmark visit to the US in…

China’s UN ambassador slams ’empty slogans’ at COP26

Tackling global climate change needs more than “empty slogans” and big entourages, China’s senior envoy to the United Nations Zhang Jun said on Wednesday, amid criticism of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s failure to attend climate talks in Glasgow. “Responding to climate change requires…

Taliban Leader Who Met Indian Envoy In Doha Trained With Indian Army

New Delhi:  The Taliban representative who met Ambassador Deepak Mittal, India’s envoy in Qatar, on Tuesday in Doha, trained under the Indian Army at its elite institutions in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One of the seven persons who call the shots in the terrorist group that recently took over…