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New Delhi: In a massive security upgrade of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a highly sophisticated car Mercedes-Maybach S650 Guard has been included in his cavalcade that can survive bullets and explosive blast, the sources in the security set up said. PM Modi was first spotted with the new car at Hyderabad House in Delhi while welcoming […]
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By D Bala Venkatesh Varma Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, for the 21st Annual Summit in New Delhi on 6th December. Though by normal diplomatic standards this official visit was a short one — President Putin was in Delhi for less than four hours — its timing and […]
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It is to the credit of Indian diplomacy that efforts are being made to deepen ties with Russia, sending important message to China and Pakistan
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The government is seeing it as an endeavour to provide a big boost to self-reliance in defence manufacturing in India.
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Moscow: Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov has successfully test launched a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile from the White Sea, Russia’s Defence Ministry has said The missile hit a target that was located at a distance of more than 400 km, it added. The Tsirkon missile has been test-fired several times from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate and a […]
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Boycott threat to Beijing Winter Olympics will hurt athletes, who often fall victims to whimsical governments
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Biden has said it would be an important step if the United States and Russia were able to ultimately find “stability and predictability" in their relationship.
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He first became the President of Russia in 1999 and since then, has served three six-year terms as the President.
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The 44-year-old Navalny, an anti-corruption investigator who is the best-known critic of President Vladimir Putin, was arrested on January 17 upon returning from Germany.
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The two presidents agreed to have their teams work urgently to complete a five-year extension of the New START nuclear weapons treaty that expires next month.
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"The coronavirus pandemic and other challenges which the world faced in the outgoing year testified to the importance of broad international cooperation," Putin said, Xinhua news agency reported citing the Kremlin.
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Sputnik V, the world's first COVID-19 vaccine, is over 95 per cent effective, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.
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The Russian president was one of the last remaining leaders of major world countries to have held back on congratulating Biden.
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Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a bitter conflict over Karabakh since Armenian separatists backed by Yerevan seized control of the mountainous province in a 1990s war that left 30,000 people dead.
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More than 225,000 have died from the coronavirus, while lockdowns have left millions in economic dire straits. Racial wounds, bared during a summer of protests, fester, while Republicans and Democrats in Washington bicker and backstab.
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The Russian chief arms control negotiator also noted that Russia would refuse any agreement on the New START that was timed to coincide with the US presidential election.
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One witness said they were woken by a huge blast that levelled an entire square block of one- and two-floor houses in the early hours of the morning, leaving nine apartments destroyed.