Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan, in Thimphu on Wednesday. Following ...

New Delhi | Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday embarked on a four-day official visit to Bhutan to further strengthen the partnership with the neighbouring country. She is leading the ...

The milestone election of Sanae Takaichi is a symbolic victory for feminists; however, some critics have expressed concern over her ultraconservative policies Meredith Kile is a Digital News ...

TOKYO — Lawmakers in Japan elected hard-line conservative Sanae Takaichi as prime minister Tuesday, making her the first woman in modern times to lead the key U.S. ally. Takaichi, 64, the new leader ...

Tokyo — Japan's parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner ...

Japan's first-ever female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is a conservative with a traditional view of gender roles and a penchant for heavy metal music. Japan's parliament elected Takaichi on Tuesday ...

Takaichi’s election represents a historic breakthrough in a country where gender parity in leadership has long lagged behind its economic sophistication. Yet investors shouldn’t mistake her gender ...

Oct. 21 (UPI) --Sanae Takaichi was elected prime minister of Japan on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to lead the country. Japan's House of Representatives announced in a statement that Takaichi had ...

Oct. 20 (UPI) --Sanae Takaichi likely will become Japan's first female prime minister, thanks to a coalition between her party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the right-wing Japan Innovation Party.

As Britain marked the 100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth last week, Japan made history of its own on Tuesday by electing its first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, a self-declared ...

Today, Sanae Takaichi is the most powerful person in Japan — an ultraconservative politician elected as the first female prime minister in the country’s history, who hit it off with President Donald ...