At the summit, India signed the SCO's Memorandum of Obligations, kick-starting the process of its accession into the group as a full member.

Whether a meeting materialises between Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif - the government said there's no proposal yet.

Founded in Shanghai in 1996, the group at present comprises China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India and Pak...

China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), headquartered in Beijing, was founded in 2001.

The 2-day annual plenary session of the Nuclear Suppliers Group will begin in Seoul tomorrow during which India's application for membershi...

The SCO is increasingly seen as a counterweight to NATO and its membership will help India have a greater say in issues relating to securit...

The SCO is scheduled to hold a summit on June 23 and 24 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan where Pakistan will join the group, Foreign Office spokesma...

At the Tashkent summit on June 23-24, India will inch a step closer to obtaining full SCO membership, with the signing of a memorandum on t...

The membership of India and Pakistan in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) would be finalised by the next meeting of the leaders i...

Mezentsev said that bids of India, Iran and Pakistan had been submitted earlier and now these countries are SCO full-fledged observers.

The formal announcement on India's membership could come at the next SCO summit in Ufa, Russia on July 9-10, which PM Narendra Modi may att...

Russia announced that it is making all out efforts to ensure India much anticipated membership in the SCO.

India does not want the pipeline, which may cost over $40 bn, to enter India through Pak and may look for alternative route including throu...

China is one of the council's five permanent members, together with the United States, Russia, Britain and France.

Summit of SCO attended among others by Presidents of Russia, China, Afghanistan and Iran, cleared administrative hurdle to grant membership...

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will articulate India's position in dealing with growing menace of terrorism at the summit meeting.

India has renewed its pitch for full membership of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization and backed the grouping's role in stabi...