NEW DELHI - Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told a parliamentary committee on that the conflict between India and Pakistan was always in the conventional domain, and there was no nuclear signalling by the neighbouring country, sources said.

WASHINGTON - President Trump said he told Apple CEO Tim Cook that he doesn’t want tech giant building its products in India. “I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said. “I don’t want you building in India.” The comments at a business event Qatar come as Trump said India had agreed to effectively drop all tariffs on U.S. goods as part of a potential trade deal. Trump had previously suggested that a ceasefire deal between India and Pakistan following a bout of recent violence between the two was predicated on a trade truce

NEW DELHI - India will not tolerate nuclear blackmail, talks or trade cannot go along with terror, water cannot flow with blood, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his televised address to the nation on Monday evening, making it clear that Pakistan dismantling its terrorist infrastructure is the only path to peace. His address came against the backdrop of pressure from the Opposition over whether US Donald Trump announcing the ceasefire between India and Pakistan on Sunday meant India had caved in to pressure for international -- read American -- mediation.

It was the month of Ramadan in 1974, and the northern city of Lucknow, a hub of India’s Shia community, was on the boil.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has decided to let lapse a $23 billion program to incentivize domestic manufacturing, just four years after it launched the effort to woo firms away from China, according to four government officials.

Long, long ago, there was a country called India and for some time it was fortunate to have a wise ruler named Dr Manmohan Singh. For 10 years he ran the affairs of the country with prudence, humility and grace. And, the world marvelled how could a country of one billion people be governed by such a soft-spoken man, a Prime Minister who defied all the traits associated with a strong leadership model. How could an educated, learned and erudite man like him cope with the demands of a cantankerous democracy, yet would not allow his soul to be darkened by the dark players all around him? When he became Prime Minister a second time in 2009, the western world saw his elevation as the triumph of meritocracy. Very true. 

NEW DELHI - The country’s first Sikh prime minister, he introduced free-market reforms that turned India into an economic powerhouse and sought reconciliation with Pakistan. Manmohan Singh, a soft-spoken and cerebral former Indian prime minister who was credited with far-reaching changes that propelled his country’s emergence as an economic powerhouse able to compete with China, died on Thursday in New Delhi. He was 92.

CALCUTTA - Shyam Benegal, one of India’s greatest filmmakers who was a prominent name in global cinema and a pioneer of the parallel film movement of the ’70s and ‘80s, passed away on Monday evening. He was 90. Benegal had been suffering from kidney problems that required dialysis a couple of times a week.

DHAKA, Bangladesh —  has sent a formal letter to India to extradite ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to New Delhi in August amid the student-led protests that ended her 15 years in power, the country’s foreign affairs adviser said. The move likely to further complicate the already frosty Dhaka-New Delhi relationship.

NEW DELHI - The iconic picture of India’s greatest military victory — a painting of the Pakistani army signing the Instrument of Surrender in Dhaka on December 16, 1971 — has been removed from the India Army Chief’s Sena Bhavan. Military veterans have castigated the Narendra Modi government and the military top brass for removing the painting from the wall of the army chief’s office and replacing it with another painting.