Ahead of the parliamentary polls in the Maldives, the opposition parties have demanded a probe and impeachment of President Mohamed Muizzu following the leaked report of his alleged corruption from 2018, a charge dismissed by him. Elections to the Majlis are to be held on Sunday and the atmosphere has been vitiated by the trading of charges between the main opposition the Maldivian Democratic

Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit China on April 24-26, US Department of State announced in a statement.According to the statement, Blinken will meet with Chinese officials in Shanghai and Beijing to discuss a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues, including the crisis in the Middle East, Russia’s war against Ukraine, cross-strait issues, and the South China

Washington: The US House of Representatives on Saturday approved a bill that could ban social media app TikTok, CNN reported.The bill passed 360-58 marks the latest defeat for TikTok in the US, as the social media company with 170 million users in the US fights for survival under its current ownership by ByteDance, its Chinese parent company.The passage of the bill in the US House comes as part

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked US lawmakers after they voted in favour of aid packages for their countries.The two leaders statement came after the US House of Representatives approved a USD 95.3 billion foreign-aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and other American allies on Saturday. Lawmakers approved the package, most of which

North Korea said Saturday it tested a "super-large" cruise missile warhead and a new anti-aircraft missile in a western coastal area as it expands military capabilities in the face of deepening tensions with the United States and South Korea.North Korean state media said the country’s missile administration on Friday conducted a "power test" for the warhead designed for the Hwasal-1 Ra-3

The preceding ten years have witnessed a remarkable growth and strengthening of trust and confidence between India and the USby Ashok SajjanharIt is a little less than ten years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took over as the head of the NDA ruled government in New Delhi in May 2014. At the time, it was presumed that foreign policy would be his weakest suite in governance since he had no or