India

India has decided to restrict the sale of sugar on international markets, just days after it banned wheat exports. In a statement on Wednesday, the Indian government said it will limit sugar exports to 10 million tons for the marketing…

An Indian ship carrying urgent relief supplies like rice, life-saving medicines and milk powder for the people of crisis-hit Sri Lanka arrived in Colombo on Sunday and the consignment was handed over to the government in the island nation.…

India has announced an immediate ban on wheat exports, citing a risk to its food security partly due to the war in Ukraine and a spike in global prices. A notice in the government gazette by the Directorate of Foreign Trade on Friday…

Iraq is one of India’s main oil suppliers getting more than third of the crude oil imports. India relies on oil imports from the Middle East, especially Iraq that covers 23% of its needs. Oil Marketing Company Oil (SOMO) sells Iraq’s oil by…

Colombo/Sri Lank - Large-scale military exercises conducted between India and Sri Lanka raised observers' concerns about a future possible political conflict between India and China in Sri Lanka, and the escalation of Indian influence…

India's counter-terrorism agency has arrested a prominent Kashmiri human rights activist under a draconian anti-terrorism law which makes it nearly impossible to get bail. Khurram Parvez has been accused of "terror-funding"…

The Maldives has been the ambitions of major regional countries that competed to share influence in it, especially India and China, which invested millions of dollars during the rule of former leader Abdulla Yameen, as part of the Chinese…

India's national capital, Delhi, woke up to grey skies as air quality dipped to hazardous levels following the festival of Diwali. Despite a ban, people across the city burst firecrackers late into Thursday night,…

India has promised to cut its emissions to net-zero by 2070 - missing a key goal of the COP26 summit for countries to commit to reaching that target by 2050. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the pledge, the first time India…

India has rejected calls to announce a net-zero carbon emissions target and said it was more important for the world to lay out a pathway to reduce such emissions and avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures. India, the world’s…