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Russia on Saturday finally handed over a refurbished ex-Soviet aircraft carrier to India after a refit that overran by five years and went vastly over budget, damaging ties between the countries. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony took part in a ceremony at the Arctic port of Severodvinsk on Saturday morning.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said here on Thursday that the United Nations Security Council should be modernised and India made a permanent member of the body. “The Security Council ought to include India as their permanent member there is no doubt about it,” Mr. Cameron said at an interaction …

British Prime Minister David Cameron will be in India on a day-long visit, his third in two years, on his way to Colombo to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on November 15-16. Cameron will hold talks with Singh on number of crucial bilateral, regional and international issues.

Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid is optimistic about future relations with fellow Asian power China, with Delhi viewing Beijing as “rivals who are also partners”. But in an interview with The Australian newspaper published on Monday, Khurshid said a festering Himalayan border dispute between the two giant neighbours remained a key area …

The eighth round of Vietnam-India strategic national defense dialogue was convened in Vietnam’s southern Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, which was co-chaired by Vietnamese deputy defense minister Nguyen Chi Vinh and Indian

An Indian border guard of Border Security Force (BSF) was killed and six others wounded in skirmishes with Pakistani border guards on the international border in Kashmir, officials said today. The border guards targeted each other in R S Pura, Arnia, Ramgarh and Akhnoor sectors last night using heavy artillery …

Pakistan has stated that the Kashmir dispute is the core issue that remains unresolved between India and Pakistan. Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry expressed disappointment over the comments made by India’s External Affairs Minister on the status of Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian media.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh failed Monday to strike a long-delayed nuclear power deal with Russia during talks with President Vladimir Putin that also focused on big arms and energy deals. Singh is using one of his last major foreign trips as prime minister before 2014 general elections

Faced with a depleting fleet of submarines, India is expected to acquire on lease a nuclear submarine from Russia, a deal for which may be finalised during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit there on Sunday. The move to acquire the second nuclear submarine from Russia comes two months after the …

 Ahead of his first meeting here with US President Barack Obama, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that world powers should get involved to resolve the Kashmir issue. “The world powers should do so as India and Pakistan both were nuclear powers and the region was a nuclear flash …