Meeting on the sidelines of the two-day 17th Saarc summit, which opens Thursday, external affairs minister S.M. Krishna and Pakistan’s foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar discussed trade and terrorism issues Wednesday with a view to broadening the two countries’ engagement.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) is thought to be pretty much a north-of-7-degrees-North affair — essentially taking in the subcontinent, with the geography bent just a shade four years ago to pull in Afghanistan as well.

Travelling in these parts and speaking with people who hold no power — farmers, teachers, shopkeepers, even a low-brow, hard-working bureaucrat — makes it clear that ordinary people are conscious that

High-level sources here on Thursday described the recently-concluded strategic partnership agreement with Afghanistan as a “progression” in ties that points to a direction, rather than a “step-up”.

Stepping up their interaction in the security grid, India and Afghanistan are expected to consider “enhanced focus” on cooperation in the “fight against international terrorism” when President Hamid K

There are 'forces at work that want to destabilise our country', and the Opposition is 'getting prematurely restless', Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday while speaking to the media.

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Much effort has been directed in the past six months at securing for India the status of a permanent member of the UN Security Council, sources said on Tuesday.

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Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said here on Sunday that he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for an hour in the morning to brief him on economic issues after his meetings with the World Bank

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on Saturday for a “cooperative rather than a confrontationist approach” in the world and underlined that societies “cannot be reordered from outside through milita

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Sunday that he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for an hour in the morning to brief him on economic issues after his meetings with the World Bank and