Srinagar, India (AFP) April 26, 2025 India, furious after a deadly attack, has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, with Islamabad warning any attempt to stop water flows would be considered an “act of war”. The 65-year-old pact was considered a rare diplomatic success story between bitter nuclear-armed rivals who have fought multiple conflicts….
Srinagar, India (AFP) April 28, 2025 Indian and Pakistan soldiers exchanged gunfire in disputed Kashmir for a fourth night in a row, New Delhi’s army said Monday, the latest violence as relations between the rival nuclear-armed powers fray. There were no reported casualties, and Islamabad did not immediately confirm the gunfire from Pakistan. India has…
San Francisco (AFP) May 2, 2025 Apple on Thursday reported first-quarter profit above expectations but warned that US tariffs could cost the company and were disrupting its supply chain. Apple expects US tariffs to cost $900 million in the current quarter, even though their impact was “limited” at the start of this year, chief executive…
New Delhi (AFP) April 28, 2025 India has signed a contract to purchase 26 Rafale fighter jets from France, New Delhi’s defence ministry said Monday, with the multi-billion-dollar deal to include both single and twin-seat planes. When delivered, the jets would join 36 French-made Rafale fighters already acquired by New Delhi as part of its…
Srinagar, India (AFP) April 28, 2025 Anger in Indian-run Kashmir escalated on Monday over sweeping detentions in the hunt for the gunmen who carried out a deadly attack last week that New Delhi blames on arch-rival Pakistan. New Delhi has accused Pakistan of supporting “cross-border terrorism” after gunmen killed 26 people on April 22, the…
Paris (AFP) April 30, 2025 A deadly attack in the contested Kashmir region has prompted fears of spiralling conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. New Delhi, which accuses Pakistan of backing the attack, has not yet taken military action. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the Indian army “complete operational freedom” to respond. Pakistan,…
Amritsar, India (AFP) April 28, 2025 India’s Daoke village is fenced from Pakistan on three sides and 65-year-old resident Hardev Singh, who has lived through multiple wars between the arch-rivals, knows the drill if another erupts. “All women, children, cattle and most younger men moved back to safe shelters in 1999 and 1971,” Hardev said,…
New Delhi (AFP) April 30, 2025 New Delhi closed its airspace to Pakistani airplanes on Wednesday after Islamabad banned Indian planes from overflying, the latest tit-for-tat measure as relations between the nuclear-armed rivals spiral into a tailspin. New Delhi accuses Islamabad of backing the deadliest attack in years on civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir on April…
New Delhi (AFP) April 30, 2025 Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan have exchanged gunfire across their heavily militarised de facto border in contested Kashmir since an April 22 attack that New Delhi blames on Islamabad, claims it rejects. Troops are facing off along the 770-kilometre (478-mile) fortified Line of Control – the route of a…
New Delhi (AFP) April 30, 2025 India said Wednesday that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would attend Russia’s annual Victory Day parade in Moscow, taking up an invitation that had been also extended to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Foreign ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said this month that Modi had been invited to the May 9 parade,…
