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India opposed Iran's nuclear programme at UN four times in the past. However, Tehran understood the fact that New Delhi had done so due to immense international pressure. The Iranian officials' better understanding of Indian foreign policy has helped the two nations maintain "friendly" ties. Now, Iran plans to invite India to take part in a nuclear technology forum in Tehran next year.

India thanked Russia on Saturday for not adopting any measure detrimental to the South Asian country's security interests and also signed 16 bilateral agreements.

BELGRADE - Ajay Kumar claims that his real motive in making a Right to Information Act request to assess India's zombie and alien-fighting skills was to draw the government's attention to the real issues of terror and poverty. While mentioning Will Smith, he took a dig at the Indian Government for relying on the US.

India plans to sign fresh treaties with 47 countries in order to make foreign investments more transparent.

Finally, India has struck a deal with France to acquire 36 Rafale fighter jets.

The Islamic State (IS/Daesh) crucified an Indian Christian Catholic priest on Good Friday, according to the Washington Times. Reverend Thomas Uzhunnalil was working for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity and was kidnapped in a raid in Yemen earlier this month.

The Indian government children's minister has proposed the introduction of mandatory tests to determine the sex of an unborn child in a bid to counter the disturbing levels of female foeticide.

Prenatal sex tests are officially illegal in India, a policy designed to stop so many unborn girls being aborted by parents desperate for a boy.

Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen approved on July 23 a law allowing foreign ownership of land for the first time, triggering concern over a possible landgrab by China in the strategic Indian Ocean region.

Dozens of foreign companies already run luxury resorts on islands that they lease from the government of the honeymoon islands for a maximum of 99 years.

Pakistan has accused India of another breach of their ceasefire in the disputed Kashmir region, after reporting the death of four civilians in earlier cross-border shelling.
 

A rape suspect was pulled out of a jail and lynched by a mob in northeastern India on March 5, local reports said, with anger raging over the high rate of sexual violence in the country.