Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to make a landmark visit to Pakistan next year, India's foreign secretary said on Friday, signaling a warming of ties between the nuclear-armed neighbors after a year of tensions.
India and the United States signed a tax information sharing agreement on Thursday, under a new U.S. law meant to combat offshore tax dodging by Americans as well as by Indians stashing funds abroad.
Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India will start the process of joining a security bloc led by China and Russia at a summit in Russia later this week, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday, the first time the grouping has expanded since it was set up in 2001.
Some 30,000 Indian soldiers guarding the border with Bangladesh have a new mandate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government this year - stop cattle from crossing illegally into the Muslim-majority neighbour.
