The visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Burma on Sunday is the latest sign that India now believes it needs to assert its presence in its eastern neighbour.

UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon reached the capital here this afternoon on a three-day visit. During his visit, New Delhi will be hoping to give its bid for UN reforms, including an expansion of the

India has proposed early presidential elections in Maldives to end the political impasse in the country following the ouster of the first democratically elected President Mohamed Nasheed.

During his

India's insistence on continuing to buy Iranian oil defying US sanctions, drawing common approach on China, Af-Pak situation and peace negotiations with Taliban dominated the talks of Foreign Secretar

Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on Wednesday met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and held a series of meetings at the State Department and the White House on a range of bilateral, regional and glob

Amidst increasing pressure from the US to reduce its dependence on Iranian oil, India on Tuesday said its ties with Tehran is neither inconsistent with non- proliferation objectives nor is in contradiction with its relationships with the West.

Seeking to downplay Pakistan's refusal to allow him to visit the country, US Special Representative for the Afghanistan-Pakistan region Marc Grossman on Friday said he will wait till Islamabad re-eval

In the backdrop of the US State Department website displaying a map with the northwestern part of Jammu and Kashmir as Pakistani territory, Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on Monday said such m

Ranjan Mathai, India's former ambassador to France, Monday took over as India's foreign secretary.

"The foreign secretary is as much an institution as an individual. So I will continue this effort,"

Veteran diplomat Ranjan Mathai on Monday assumed charge as new foreign secretary succeeding Nirupama Rao and said he would try and work to restore “trust and confidence” in Indo-Pak relations.