NEW DELHI, 20 AUG.Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign policy has enhanced India's diplomacy stature on global forums. His farsightedness has not only won several friends in the Islamic block, where Pakistan so far had a greater presence but has also increased its influence among Muslim countries through trade and strategic partnership.

BENGALURU, 11 AUG.An industrialist in Karnataka's Koppala district, some 353km from Bengaluru, celebrated the house warming ceremony for his wife's dream home with a life-size silicone statue of hers three years after she died in a car accident.