India's top diplomat in the Philippines believes that Manila and New Delhi are now entering into the "best and most substantive" phase of their diplomatic relationship with more cooperation between the two countries. Ambassador Shambhu Kumaran led on Wednesday the reception for alumni of Indian...
Twenty-one Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) personnel have recently completed a training in India where they obtained the skills to operate and maintain a shore-based anti-ship missile system (SBASMS) for the integration of the world’s fastest supersonic missile in the world – the BrahMos missile...
India has signed with the Philippines an agreement that will serve as a framework for its upcoming projects in the country— a move that its top diplomat sees as "a milestone" in the bilateral relations of the two Asian nations. Indian Ambassador to the Philippines Shambhu Kumaran on Monday inked...
GUWAHATI, India -- More than 2,000 people were arrested Friday in India's remote northeast after a government crackdown on illegal child marriages, police said. India is home to more than 220 million child brides, according to UN figures, but the number of child weddings has fallen dramatically...
NEW DELHI, India -- Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed Saturday, killing one pilot and injuring two others, in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises south of the capital New Delhi. The crash is the latest in a string of military aircraft accidents at a time when the government is...
NEW DELHI, India -Pioneering modernist architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, India's only winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize and a staunch advocate of low-cost housing for the poor, has died at the age of 95. Doshi died at his home in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, a residence with a facade dominated...
Filipino workers who have existing contracts or are planning to work in India have been given the greenlight to push through their employment there. This came after the Philippine government resumed the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) there after imposing a ban on it due to the South...
LUCKNOW, India -- At least three people were killed and dozens were feared trapped after a four-storey building collapsed in India, officials said late Tuesday. The state's deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak said three people had been killed in the accident in the northern city of Lucknow in...
NEW DELHI, India - India's government has refused to appoint a senior lawyer as a judge because he is gay and has a foreign partner, the country's Supreme Court said. New Delhi only decriminalised gay sex in 2018 with a Supreme Court ruling, and opposition to gay rights is widespread in the largely...
The Philippines has joined 124 other countries from the southern part of the globe in a two-day summit hosted by India, which aimed to give voice for the developing and least developed countries during the upcoming G20 Summit. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo...
House Committee on Ways and Means chairman Joey Sarte Salceda on Sunday, January 1 expressed his belief the Philippines will compete with Vietnam and India for the fastest growing major economy in Asia-Pacific this year, 2023. The Albay 2nd District Representative said he is optimistic about the...
PATNA, India -- At least 22 people have died and several others have been hospitalised in India after drinking toxic alcohol, authorities said Thursday. The deaths happened mainly in two villages in the eastern state of Bihar, where the sale and consumption of liquor are prohibited. Such bans are...
