The plans included in the International Education Strategy, however, do not go so far as to accept the sector’s demand to revive the two-year post-study work visa that was popular with self-financing Indian students, but was closed in 2012. read more

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is firming up its policy on the Indo-Pacific even as it looks to India playing a larger role in regional peace and stability and development in the coming years, experts and envoys said at a seminar... read more

Fortunato Dominguez de la Cruz, 55, stands at a shelter where he guards an oyster farm at the Mecoacan lagoon near Paraiso, Mexico. Even before Mexican President Lopez Obrador took office last December, work had begun to cut down protected woodland on Pemex land on the coast of Tabasco state to make room for the new refinery next to the Dos Bocas port.

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Asees Singh Chadha, the nephew of deceased liquor baron Ponty Chadha, was driving a Bentley car that was involved in an incident resulting in the death of a woman on Monday. read more

Witnesses said the Bentley Bentayga was speeding on Vinay Marg when it hit the autorickshaw, causing it to flip over and fling its occupants onto the road. The driver Asees Singh Chadha was caught and assaulted by some passersby before being handed over... read more

The threat of India being consigned to the margins of the dense network of transport and economic corridors emerging around us is real. read more

Finalising key trade arrangements with EU, Asean are also high on agenda. read more

The law recalls, reaffirms and endorses ongoing India-US cooperation and “calls for the strengthening and broadening of diplomatic, economic, and security ties between the two nations. read more

Modi, who has, according to the prime minister’s official website, made 48 foreign trips since June 2014, has no scheduled visits on his agenda for the next few months, the officials said. read more

Vietnam were favourites to advance to the final after securing a 2-1 win in Bacolod in the first leg on Sunday and, despite needing to score twice, the Philippines rarely threatened. read more

India and Vietnam agreed to further strengthen bilateral strategic cooperation in defence and oil and gas sectors. read more

Myanmar should take the grouping’s help to address the crisis. Opposing it will attract international criticism read more

Following the Asean-India Summit over breakfast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the East Asia Summit, with both meetings focusing on issues such as increased connectivity and trade and the Indo-Pacific region, where India is emerging as... read more

This was the third consultative meeting of the informal strategic group comprising Australia, India, Japan and the US since it was revived on the margins of the Asean Summit in the Philippines in November last year as a counterbalance to China’s growing... read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the ASEAN-India Breakfast Summit in Singapore and underlined the need for maritime cooperation and centrality of trade for the prosperity of the strategic Indo-Pacific region. He also held separate bilateral meetings with the premiers of Singapore, Australia and Thailand and discussed ways to further strengthen ties, including in areas of trade, defence and security.

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