Amid crackdown on farmers, SKM, BKU (U) skip talks in Punjab

Amid crackdown on farmers, SKM, BKU (U) skip talks in Punjab

Water cannons being used on Congress workers during their protest against the Punjab government in Chandigarh on Friday, March 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI Amid the crackdown on protesting farmers by Punjab Police, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and Bharti Kisan Union (Ugrahan) [BKU (U)] on Friday (March 21, 2025) declined to participate in … Read more

G7 Talks: Consensus reached despite US trade disputes and Canada tensions

G7 Talks: Consensus reached despite US trade disputes and Canada tensions

Top diplomats from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies on Friday were wrapping up their final day of talks that have been overshadowed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade and foreign policies as well as his repeated taunts toward host Canada. Despite the tensions, diplomats signaled they would reach consensus on a final communique after … Read more

Kremlin awaits US briefing on Ukraine talks before deciding on proposed ceasefire

Kremlin awaits US briefing on Ukraine talks before deciding on proposed ceasefire

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it needed to be briefed by the United States on the outcome of US-Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia before it would comment on whether a proposed ceasefire was acceptable to Russia. After more than eight hours of talks with Ukrainian officials in Jeddah on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco … Read more

Tharoor posts selfie with Union Minister Goyal, U.K. Trade Secretary; hails revival of India-U.K. FTA talks

Tharoor posts selfie with Union Minister Goyal, U.K. Trade Secretary; hails revival of India-U.K. FTA talks

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, right, with Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, centre, and the UK’s Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds | Photo Credit: X/@ShashiTharoor Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor posted a selfie with Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Business … Read more

India, EU expected to make ‘meaningful’ progress on FTA talks in 2025: diplomats

India, EU expected to make ‘meaningful’ progress on FTA talks in 2025: diplomats

Representative image | Photo Credit: PTI “Meaningful progress” on the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is expected in 2025, said senior European diplomats in New Delhi, as Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal began his three-day visit to Brussels on Saturday. An EU-India strategic road map is also taking shape, as part … Read more

Assam CM says State in talks with Centre to create a defence corridor

Assam CM says State in talks with Centre to create a defence corridor

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. | Photo Credit: ANI The Assam government is actively negotiating with the Defence Ministry for the declaration of areas adjoining Guwahati towards Nagaon as a defence corridor, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said here on Tuesday (January 7, 2024). Mr. Sarma made these remarks after holding a roadshow and … Read more

Junior doctors: Streeting begins talks to avert more strikes

Junior doctors: Streeting begins talks to avert more strikes

39 minutes ago By Michelle Roberts, Digital health editor, BBC News Reuters Mr Streeting was speaking at the Tony Blair Institute Future of Britain conference Face-to-face talks between junior doctors unhappy over pay and the new health and secretary have begun. Wes Streeting says the government cannot afford or commit to the 35% rise the doctors want … Read more

PM Modi in Russia LIVE updates: Modi arrived in Moscow, to hold formal talks with Putin today

PM Modi in Russia LIVE updates: Modi arrived in Moscow, to hold formal talks with Putin today

According to sources, India and Russia will sign “several” documents at the end of the talks on Tuesday, including a comprehensive joint statement, a vision statement, the future course on energy and trade, cooperation on investments in Russia’s Far East and a number of MoUs. The two sides are also discussing India’s desire to open … Read more

Junior doctors talks need ‘time and space’, says Victoria Atkins

Junior doctors talks need ‘time and space’, says Victoria Atkins

Recounting her own experience of giving birth to her first child, Ms Atkins said she had had “amazing care” but before the birth had been put on a ward with mothers who had had “very, very traumatic experiences”. “Seeing other mums in a great deal of distress, it was quite frightening actually,” she said. The … Read more