New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday said that the visiting Italian minister was satisfied with the probe in the fishermen killings case. He also said that the Italian Foreign Minister also will visit the country on Tuesday for further discussion and the improvement of the bilateral ties between the two countries.
"Italian minister expressed satisfaction on the progress in Kerala. The Italian Foreign Minister will arrive on Tuesday for further discussion," said MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin.
Italian Deputy Foreign Minister also thanked the Indian and Kerala government.
"I wanted to thank the Indian authority for their hospitality and briefed them about the meeting with the CM. I also thanked Indian lawyers who are working on the defence side. Allowing Italian forensic experts is a good sign," Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Staffan de Mistura said....
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04:29 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Rome: Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship off a Tuscan island found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said. Italy's national civil protection agency, which is monitoring the operation off a Tuscan island, said three of the bodies were recovered a few hours after being spotted by fire department divers. It said they are those of...
12:18 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Staffan De Mistura said that a proper dialogue was needed to have a proper solution. ...
02:40 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Giglio: The captain of the capsized Costa Concordia could be sentenced to a cumulative total of more than 2,500 years in prison if convicted of causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship and multiple counts of manslaughter, it emerged on Monday. The length of sentence was calculated, which totted up the jail terms that Captain Francesco Schettino could face if convicted on all the charges that are expected to be brought against...
03:25 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Rome: Divers in Italy have abandoned the search for survivors of the Costa Concordia. The 16 missing people including Indian crew member Russell Rebello are now being presumed dead. The civil protection authority said conditions on the wreck had made it impossible for divers to continue working safely in the underwater sections of the 290-metre long vessel. Seventeen others died when the Italian luxury cruiseliner capsized near Giglio island in...
09:04 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Rome: Nudged gently by the tides off Tuscany, the capsized Costa Concordia has been deemed stable enough on its rocky perch for salvagers to begin pumping fuel oil from its giant tanks as early as on Tuesday. The cruise liner, its hull gashed by a reef and pocked by holes blasted by divers searching for the missing, yielded two more bodies on Monday, 10 days after the accident. The corpses...
08:06 AM, Jan 24, 2012
Rome: Nudged gently by the tides off Tuscany, the capsized Costa Concordia has been deemed stable enough on its rocky perch for salvagers to begin pumping fuel oil from its giant tanks as early as Tuesday. The cruise liner, its hull gashed by a reef and pocked by holes blasted by divers searching for the missing, yielded two more bodies on Monday, 10 days after the accident. The corpses of...
04:12 AM, Jan 24, 2012
Rome: A coast guard officer's 'Get back on board damn it!' order to the fleeing captain of the capsized Costa Concordia liner is being printed on T-shirts by a company hoping to inspire Italians to rescue their country from economic crisis. Italians have made a hero of coast guard officer Gregorio De Falco for his angry exchange with skipper Francesco Schettino - who has been blamed for the accident and...
01:30 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Divers resumed their search for survivors from the Italian cruise ship on Saturday. ...
09:10 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Mumbai: It's been a week since Italian luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia struck rocks and keeled on its side but there's still no news of Russell Rebello - the sole Indian crew member yet to be accounted for. And he was one of 200 Indian crew members on board that ship, that's 20 per cent of the total staff. So the questions here is Why do Indians make such a...
08:50 AM, Jan 22, 2012
A week after the Costa Concordia struck rock, Italy has declared a formal emergency for the island to helping with the rescue operations. ...
09:32 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Mumbai: It has been six days to the ship mishap in Italy and there is still no news of Russell Rebello, the Indian crew member aboard the Costa Concordia. The ship ran aground last week. Italy has declared a formal emergency for the island where the incident occurred. This is aimed at helping operations in the area. In Mumbai, the family of Terence Rebello has been going through agony, waiting...
08:57 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: It's been six days and there's still no news of Russell Rubello, missing Indian aboard the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia. The first batch of Indians rescued from ill-fated cruise ship, which had run aground off Italy's coast on Saturday, arrived in India on Thursday. Fifteen out of the 200 Indians rescued from ship were flown to New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport in an Emirates flight. There...
06:20 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Hyderabad: A jubilant first batch of survivors from the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, which hit a rock and sank off the Tuscan coast in Italy, reached back to the city Thursday night around 9.30 pm. The survivors Jonathan Paturi, Ramesh Kumar, Srikanth Yadav, Srinivas Reddy, Ravikumar Dharnes, Suresh Chari and Shashidharan returned along with the first batch of 72 Indians five days after the mishap took place near Giglio...
01:55 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Rome: A young Moldovan woman, who says she was called to the bridge of the stricken Costa Concordia to help evacuate Russian passengers, defended the embattled captain on Thursday, saying he worked tirelessly and "saved over 3,000 lives." Domnica Cemortan, who says she was translating Capt Francesco Schettino's orders during the frenzied evacuation, has emerged as a potential new witness in the investigation into the officer's actions the night the...
04:48 AM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: It was a day many families were waiting for as the first batch of Indians rescued from the sunken Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia landed in Delhi. There were 201 Indians on board the ship. The Indian embassy has given each of them one hundred euros. However, as many as 23 people including Indian Russell Rebello are still missing. Meanwhile, the ship's captain who faces manslaughter charges claims...
07:20 PM, Jan 19, 2012
The first batch of Indians rescued from the Italian cruise liner returned to Delhi on Thursday. ...
02:27 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: The first batch of Indians rescued from ill-fated cruise ship 'Costa Concordia', which had run aground off Italy's coast on Saturday, arrived on Thursday. Fifteen out of the 200 Indians rescued from ship were flown to New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport in an Emirates flight. There were a total of 203 Indians were on board the ill-fated ship - one passenger and 202 crew members. Of them,...
12:20 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Giglio: Divers searching the capsized Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia suspended work on Wednesday after the vast wreck shifted by more than a metre, delaying plans to remove the oil from the liner to prevent a possible environmental disaster. Five days after the 114,500 tonne cruise ship struck a rock and capsized off the picturesque Tuscan island of Giglio, hopes of finding anyone alive have faded and salvage experts are...
03:49 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Mumbai: "Standing at the edge of the deck, I left everything in the hands of the Almighty, and just jumped," said Jason D'Silva. And the Almighty must have been listening, as it was this very leap of faith -- off the capsizing Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia and onto a teetering lifeboat tossing in the choppy waters -- that miraculously saved the crew member's life last Friday. Jason spoke to...
12:19 PM, Jan 18, 2012
