
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...

04:29 PM, Feb 24, 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

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

The first batch of Indians rescued from the Italian cruise liner returned to Delhi on Thursday. ...

02:27 PM, Jan 19, 2012

Giglio: More than 48 hours after the hull of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia was torn apart by rocks off the Tuscan coast, its captain, Francesco Schettino says he's not at fault. "I don't know if it was detected or not but on the nautical chart it was marked just as water at some 100-150 meters from the rocks and we were about 300 meters from the shore, more...

09:48 PM, Jan 16, 2012

Giglio: Two hundred and one Indians have been rescued from aboard the sinking ship Costa Concordia, that hit rocks off the coast of Italy on Friday night, said Sunil Aggarwal, First secretary, Indian Embassy, Rome. He added that one Indian was still missing. "People saw him (the missing Indian) rescuing the passengers. There are no eye witnesses to tell us where he is," he said. He said that there would...

08:02 AM, Jan 16, 2012

Porto Santo Stefano: About 40 people were still missing Sunday more than 24 hours after an Italian cruise ship with more than 4,000 on board capsized off Italy's west coast, killing at least three people and injuring 70. The captain of the luxury 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia was being held in jail accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, Italian police said. Passengers, some saying it felt like...

08:26 AM, Jan 15, 2012