
New Delhi: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi will be in Delhi on Thursday on a two-day visit to formally invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit to be held in Tehran in August. Salehi, who will be in Delhi as the Special Envoy of President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, will hand over an invitation to the Prime Minister, the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement. During...

09:47 PM, May 30, 2012

New Delhi: Some IT professionals and businessmen were facing problems in getting visas mainly due to outsourcing issues in those countries but Indian consulates are active in providing all help in resolving the grievances, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Asked during Question Hour about denial of visa by some countries to some IT professionals and even students, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said her ministry as...

10:40 PM, May 16, 2012

New Delhi: It was an emotional reunion the Bhattacharya family has been waiting. After nearly a year in foster care in Norway, two NRI children, separated from their parents on grounds of negligence, arrived in India to an emotional welcome following a prolonged custody battle and diplomatic pressure by India. The children - Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1) - escorted by uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya and their Norwegian foster father were...

07:19 PM, Apr 24, 2012

Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur on Tuesday confirmed that the Norway NRI children will stay in Delhi for the day. ...

12:08 PM, Apr 24, 2012

New Delhi: Thieves have struck the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) adjoining Prime Minister's Office in the high security South Block in New Delhi, decamping with the laptop and pen drive of a senior official besides attempting to break into two rooms. The incident comes two months after theft of a hard disk of a computer was reported from the Home Ministry in North Block. In November last year, a...

01:12 PM, Mar 19, 2012

New Delhi: Sri Lankan special envoy Prasad Kariyawasam on Thursday apologised for his alleged remark that certain Tamil Nadu MPs had links with the LTTE. The MEA had summoned the envoy to explain his remark. Said Kariyawasam, "The government of India has expressed concern over the tone and content of my remark. I am very sorry about that. That is not what I meant. I have a lot of respect...

01:41 PM, Mar 15, 2012

New Delhi: India will soon send "factual documentation" of its policy framework pertaining to child rights and welfare to Norwegian authorities, which had asked for them following the NRI children custody row. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has already compiled its response to the query of Norwegian authorities about laws and policies dealing with children's rights and their welfare in the country, official sources said. Ahead of the hearing case...

08:40 PM, Mar 11, 2012

New Delhi: India has reportedly asked Norway to expedite the return of the children of NRI couple Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, urging it to do so keeping in view the "humanitarian dimension". A terse government statement said, "The children are neither orphans, nor Stateless persons. They enjoy the protection of the Indian State." "India urges Norway to expedite the process of return of the children to India in view of...

06:13 PM, Feb 22, 2012

New Delhi: As part of its public diplomacy outreach, the ministry of external affairs has donned the mantle of filmmaker with the premiere of 'A Brush With Life', a special documentary on the life of master modernist Satish Gujral, the artist who overcame physical challenges to become a stalwart of contemporary Indian art. The movie, commissioned by the ministry and supported by History TV 18 as a showcase of contemporary...

03:52 PM, Feb 16, 2012

New Delhi: Chinese companies are not being invited for the Defence Ministry's biennial military exhibition 'Defexpo' here next month but there will be an official delegation from that country for the event. The External Affairs Ministry has shot down a Defence Ministry proposal to invite Chinese companies to take part in the four-day show that will have representation from several countries including the US, Israel, Russia and France, sources told...

09:00 PM, Feb 07, 2012

New Delhi and Oslo seem to have finally agreed on a solution - that of handing over the children to their grandparents in India. ...

09:44 PM, Jan 24, 2012

New Delhi: Around 10 days before war broke out between India and Pakistan in 1971, the then President of Pakistan Yahya Khan had given an inkling of his intentions to attack this country after taking a few drinks with an American journalist. Yahya had told the journalist on the day of their meeting that he would be "at the front within 10 days" when the American talked about getting back...

12:30 PM, Jan 16, 2012

New Delhi: The Government has given sanction for the prosecution of 21 social networking sites like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo India in the ongoing spat between the companies and the Government of India over content regulation. The Centre told a Delhi court on Friday that there is sufficient material to proceed against the 21 social networking sites for offences of promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national...

01:58 PM, Jan 13, 2012

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs has said that the two Indian traders who were allegedly held hostage in Yiwu in China are now safe in Shanghai and will return only after the legal procedure is complete. The MEA said, "The traders are in Shanghai. We are in touch with them, we cannot disclose their location. They are safe and all possible assistance is being provided to them. We...

01:22 PM, Jan 05, 2012

New Delhi: A special Lokayukta court in Bangalore will hear External Affairs Minister SM Krishna's petition on Thursday in an illegal mining case. Earlier, Krishna on December 9 petitioned the Karnataka High Court to quash the illegal mining case against him, a day after police launched a probe into his alleged role in illegal mining when he was chief minister during the period of 1999-2004. Krishna has contended in the...

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