New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said that India's trade with China was booming and there was no reason to envy the country, rather it should be emulated. He said China and India are two large countries and Beijing challenges New Delhi to compete with it on equal terms. "We should not fear competition from China. There is no reason to envy China. If at all, we should...
02:34 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Beijing: The two Indians, who were virtually held captive by local traders in China's Yiwu trade hub, have now been shifted to a hotel for "safety" reasons by the police, even as India issued an advisory asking its traders to "stay away" from the busy commodity centre. Police in Yiwu, a trade hub in Zhejiang province close to Shanghai, shifted Shyamsunder Agrewal and Deepak Raheja to a hotel where two...
01:42 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs will summon Chinese Deputy Chief of Mission to lodge protest over the ill treatment meted out to Indian diplomat in Shanghai, sources said. Indian embassy officials are apparently in a meeting with officials from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. The Indian diplomat was attacked as he tried to secure the release of two Indians who were held hostage by locals,...
04:08 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: India has taken serious note of the attack on an Indian diplomat in a Chinese court by some local traders. Indian embassy officials are apparently in a meeting with officials from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. Sources have said that the Ministry of External Affairs has summoned Chinese diplomat on the incident. The Indian Counsulate in Shanghai protested to the Yiwu local government officials. Meanwhile,...
03:02 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Beijing: An Indian diplomat was injured and hospitalised following an assault by a large group of Chinese traders in a court, as he tried to secure the release of two Indians who were held hostage by locals, demanding payment of their dues in the eastern business hub of Yiwu. S Balachandran, a diplomat at the Indian Consulate in Shanghai was rushed to hospital when he fainted after being "manhandled" by...
01:48 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Tehran: Britain has evacuated all its diplomatic staff from Iran, Western diplomatic sources told Reuters on Wednesday, a day after protesters stormed and ransacked its embassy and a residential compound. Britain said it was outraged by the attacks and warned of "serious consequences". The UN Security Council condemned the attacks "in the strongest terms". US President Barack Obama called on Iran to hold those responsible to account. No comment was...
12:56 PM, Nov 30, 2011
US President Barack Obama urged the Iranian government to ensure that incidents like these are not repeated. ...
09:12 AM, Nov 30, 2011
New Delhi: The man who had attacked Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was on Friday assaulted by members of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The party workers assaulted the attacker, Harvinder Singh, inside the Patiala House court where he was produced after his arrest on Thursday. Singh was arrested on Thursday after he slapped Pawar at the NDMC Centre in New Delhi. Meanwhile, the Patiala House court sent Singh to...
01:56 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Mumbai: Protests erupted across Maharashtra on Thursday following the attack on Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in Delhi and NCP has called a bandh in Pune, Sangli and Beed districts on Friday to protest the assault on its chief. "We have asked those who love Pawar saheb to observe the bandh. We won't compel anyone," Rajpal said. "The bandh will be peaceful," Pune city NCP chief Vandana Chavan said. Bandh call...
05:03 AM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Thursday described as "highly condemnable" the attack on Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and hit out at the Congress for alleging that its leader Yashwant Sinha's comments had led to the incident. "We strongly condemn the attack on Sharad Pawar. This cannot be justified in any manner. But the Congress spokesperson is stretching this too far with his comment. BJP has never supported violence and will never...
04:31 AM, Nov 25, 2011
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11:54 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Team Anna members Prashant Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal said there was no place for violence in a democracy. ...
11:33 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: Thursday's attack on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is the latest in a series of acts of public retribution. In 2009, Home Minister P Chidambaram was target of a shoe attack; journalist Jarnail Singh claimed he was upset at the Congress decision to allow Jagdish Tytler to contest elections. Singh eventually apologised. Singh said, "I want justice but my way was wrong. I don't want any journalist to...
09:24 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: Harvinder Singh, a resident of Rohini in the capital, slapped the Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in full glare of TV cameras on Thursday. The miscreant, who even attempted to slash his wrists, was taken into custody immediately. He was citing rising prices as the reason for his anger. Thursday's attack Pawar is the latest in a series of acts of public retribution. In 2009, Home Minister P Chidambaram...
08:18 PM, Nov 24, 2011
On Anna Hazare's comment, Union Minister Sharad Pawar reacted and said, "He has a new language for Gandhivaad." ...
06:46 PM, Nov 24, 2011
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