SOURCE: ANI

US Deputy Secretary of State, Kurt Campbell on Wednesday said that India and the US expressed a strong determination to hold the QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) Summit this year.

The senior US official was addressing an online briefing on the recently concluded India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) today. Campbell highlighted that the issue of the Quad was discussed between US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and NSA Ajit Doval during Sullivan’s recent visit to India.

SOURCE: REUTERS

India’s foreign minister said he voiced concern about the impact of continuing violence in Myanmar in a meeting on Wednesday with his counterpart from the Southeast Asian nation.

Myanmar plunged into turmoil after a 2021 military coup seized power from an elected government, sparking a protest movement that has evolved into a full-blown civil war, in which the military has lost control of large swathes of territory.

SOURCE: ANI

India has slammed Pakistan for its “baseless remarks” on Jammu and Kashmir that were “politically motivated and unfounded” and called it “another habitual attempt” to divert attention from grave violations against children that continue unabated in his own country.

During the United Nations Security Council’s open debate on Children and Armed Conflict, India’s Deputy Representative to the United Nations, R Ravindra, said on Wednesday (local time) that Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are integral and alienable parts of India.

SOURCE: PTI

A senior Maldivian minister on his maiden visit to China on Wednesday spoke of President Mohamed Muizzu’s recent visit to New Delhi and the importance of India to his country’s tourism-dependent economy.

The comments by Minister of Economic Development and Trade Mohamed Saeed came as Male seems to have re-oriented ties with New Delhi following President Muizzu, known for his pro-China leanings, attending Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony earlier this month.

SOURCE: IANS

Jammu & Kashmir police on Thursday attached properties of five Pakistan-based Kashmiri terror handlers worth crores in Baramulla district. Officials said: “After obtaining orders from the court, Baramulla Police attached properties (nine Kanals of land) worth crores belonging to five terror handlers based in Pakistan.”

“The local terror handlers now operating from Pakistan are Bashir Ahmad Ganie (son of Ghulam Ahmad resident of Tilgam), Mehraj-ud-din Lone (son of Fata Mohd, resident of Khargam), Ghulam Mohd Yatoo (son of Gh Ahmad resident of Tilgam), Abdul Rehman Bhat (son of Mohd Subhan resident of Wanigam Payeen) and Abdul Rashid Lone (son of Ghulam Mohiuddin resident of Satreseeran).