Beijing: Following Iran’s strikes on the bases of a terrorist group in Pakistan, China has called on both sides to exercise restraint and avoid actions that escalate tensions.While addressing a regular press briefing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said that China believes that the ties between the two nations should be handled based on basic norms governing

New Delhi: The Indian Navy will project its military might and firm resolve to safeguard the nation’s strategic interests in the maritime domain at the Republic Day parade, amid growing global concerns over the escalating tensions in the Red Sea.The naval tableau at the parade at Kartavya Path on January 26 will also showcase the Navy’s "unwavering" commitment to ‘Nari Shakti’ with an overarching

A Pakistani national was caught by the Border Security Force (BSF) while trying to sneak into India through the land border in Gujarat’s Kutch district, the BSF said on Wednesday.Nothing suspicious was found from his possession, said BSF release.The citizen of the neighbouring country was intercepted by vigilant personnel of the paramilitary force when they observed suspicious movement near the

Within 10 days of having decided to deploy more warships to patrol the Arabian Sea, the Pakistan navy now has five vessels out at sea, mostly centred around the Strait of Hormuz, the mouth of the Persian Gulf, which is a vital route used by crude and gas-carrying merchant ships.A member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was shot in the country’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province that borders

The Indian Navy is running two operations in the IOR and one of them is an anti-piracy operation, Kumar saidAdmiral R Hari Kumar, Chief of Naval Staff, on Wednesday said the Indian Navy is tackling piracy in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) aggressively, and has increased deployment of warships in the area.Speaking to the media at Lonavla’s INS Shivaji after the inauguration of a transcritical

DAVOS: Supply cuts by OPEC+, costly shipments from some traditional Middle East suppliers and geopolitical tension is driving India, the world’s third biggest oil importer, to diversify its crude sources and accelerate its energy transition, its Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said."Whenever there is vulnerability and uncertainty in the market, the transition gets