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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Bangladesh's outgoing High Commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah, in New Delhi on Sunday, 4 October 2026, for a farewell call. Jaishankar posted on X that he…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on 5 October 2026 that India began direct conversations with Russia and Ukraine in July 2026 after attacks on civilian shipping in the Black Sea killed…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on 4 October 2026 that the United States has 'deliberately become a lonelier power' through a chosen radical repositioning, while the rise of China is reshaping…
Six Russian drones struck the Kusum Group's pharmaceutical facility in Sumy, Ukraine, on 4 October, killing an engineer and injuring several others. Co-founder Sanjeev Gupta called it a 'targeted attack'. The main…
The Omani co-pilot accused of attacking Captain Smit Machchhar on flydubai Flight FZ1073 may have shut off the Boeing 737's engines after his plan to crash into a Tel Aviv skyscraper failed,…
India and Cyprus held the first meeting of their Joint Maritime Committee (JMC) in Limassol on 29 September, co-chaired by Joint Secretary Venkatesapathy S and Acting Permanent Secretary Theodoulos Mesimeris. The meeting…
An investigation by the City of Paris has concluded that the BAPS Hindu delegation did not explicitly ask for female employees to be removed from the Eiffel Tower during a private visit…
India has launched a sharp rebuttal against Pakistan at the United Nations, with diplomats using two separate Right of Reply interventions in the week ending 3 October 2026 to reject Islamabad's remarks…
भारत ने साफ किया है कि बांग्लादेश की पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री शेख हसीना के प्रत्यर्पण के लिए कोई निश्चित समयसीमा नहीं दी जा सकती. बांग्लादेश में भारत के उच्चायुक्त दिनेश त्रिवेदी ने 3…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone on Saturday, 3 October, with Captain Smit Machhar, the Indian pilot who subdued a co-pilot attack on a Flydubai flight on 30 September. Netanyahu…
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IO Repro: Repro test after fix 2 Oct. Safe to trash.