Category: Events

Brics gala dinner menu showcases an all-vegetarian Indian spread NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s gala dinner for Brics leaders and other visiting dignitaries is underway at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on Saturday evening, following the first day of the Brics Summit. The dinner is expected to conclude in the next 10 to 15...

US President Donald Trump stands on the tarmac as he arrives at Dublin Airport for a two-day visit to Dublin and Doonbeg, in Ireland. (Reuters image) TOI correspondent from Washington: There are presidential visits, there are diplomatic visits, and then there are Donald Trump visits, when the host country may want to hide the microphones,...

Leaders pose for a family photo during the Brics summit in New Delhi (Picture credit: Reuters) There is currently no proposal to introduce a common Brics currency, while discussions on settling bilateral trade in local currencies will continue as a way to reduce transaction costs, Sudhakar Dalela, secretary (economic relations) in the ministry of external...

Jairam Ramesh pointed to Paragraph 16 of the declaration, which recalls the 1955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung. NEW DELHI: Congress on Saturday took a jab at the Centre by invoking the iconic Bollywood melody, “Tu jahan jahan chale ga, mera saaya saath hoga,” to highlight former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru‘s diplomatic legacy and its presence...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping on Saturday reaffirmed the need to take a “strategic and long term perspective” of India-China ties, while stressing border peace, adherence to existing agreements and a “fair, reasonable, and mutually acceptable” resolution of the boundary question, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said.The two...

Why every disaster seems to fall on the 26th Gujarat, the tsunami, 26/11, and now Nepal. Some of the disasters etched deepest into public memory have one oddly specific thing in common: they happened on the 26th.The coincidence surfaced again after the August 26 catastrophe in Nepal, where a glacier collapse unleashed a wall of...

A house in Queens where US President Donald Trump spent the earliest years of his childhood has found a new owner, selling for $1.93 million after undergoing a dramatic renovation.The Tudor-style property in New York City’s Jamaica Estates had been vacant for years and was reportedly in poor condition when developer Tommy Lin purchased it...

Image credit: Reuters Photo NEW DELHI: England completed a 3-0 Test series clean sweep over Pakistan at Edgbaston, but the series produced an unusual statistic.It was only the eighth three-match Test series in history to finish without a single individual century. It was also only the second such series in England, after the 1888 Ashes.England’s...

PM Modi holds bilateral meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on sidelines of BRICS summit NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a bilateral meeting in New Delhi on Saturday, shortly after the declaration of the Brics Summit 2026 was adopted, with the two leaders set to discuss bilateral cooperation.The...

Al-Qaida and terrorist training camps are back in Afghanistan TOI correspondent from Washington: Al-Qaida and terrorist training camps are back in Afghanistan 25 years after 9/11.The terrorist organisation and its affiliates have established at least eight training sites in Afghanistan over the past three years, exploiting the security vacuum created by the Taliban’s return to...