New Delhi: Ranjan Mathai, India's former ambassador to France, on Monday took over as India's foreign secretary. "The foreign secretary is as much an institution as an individual. So I will continue this effort," said Mathai, who succeeds Nirupama Rao, India's next ambassador to the US. On the India-Pakistan front, he said, "My mandate is substantive dialogue on all issues of common concerns." Mathai will have a two-year term. A...
10:12 AM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Sources have told CNN-IBN that India will take up the arrest of Pakistani spy Ghulam Nabi Fai with Pakistan. According to sources, Fai's arrest will figure in foreign secretary level talks next week. Sources also described Pakistan foreign minister's plan to meet Hurriyat representatives as routine. India expressed concerns about Fai to US long ago In a new twist to the spy saga of Ghulam Nabi Fai, CNN-IBN...
06:24 PM, Jul 23, 2011
New Delhi: Ranjan Mathai, India's ambassador to France, will be the next Foreign Secretary, succeeding Nirupama Rao. Mathai, a 1974-batch IFS officer, will assume charge from August one and will be there for a term of two years, official spokesperson Vishnu Prakash said. After completing post graduate studies in Political Science at the University of Pune, Mathai joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1974. He has served in Indian embassies...
03:27 PM, Jun 27, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Thursday warned the government against any attempt made under international pressure to enforce the pre-1953 arrangement in Jammu and Kashmir which gave the state a separate Constitution and flag, saying this would lead to a forceful agitation across India. "I have given repeated warnings to the Indian government whenever we have felt that under international pressure the government is thinking of an agreement on Kashmir. Sometimes...
09:27 PM, Jun 23, 2011
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Talks are therapeutic. That's what any shrink will tell you. Especially, if it is between two warring parties, that have witnessed extreme highs and lows ...
05:45 PM, Jun 18, 2011
New Delhi: Two weeks into the crisis in Libya, an almost unprecedented exodus from the country continues. 3500 Indians have returned home so far. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao tweeted that over a 1000 evacuees had boarded the rescue ship in Benghazi and that almost 20 per cent of the 18000 Indians in the country have been evacuated. She also said India has got permission to land three planes a day...
07:13 AM, Mar 02, 2011
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is all set to meet her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit Standing Committe meeting in Bhutan on February 6 and February 7 taking forward the stalled peace process between the two countries. The meeting will also clear the ground for a productive meeting at the level of foreign ministers which is most likely to happen in the first...
10:11 AM, Jan 09, 2011
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is the first senior Indian official to visit Islamabad since 26/11 attacks. ...
12:28 PM, Jun 24, 2010
Says both sides expressed satisfaction over channels of communication. ...
09:50 PM, Feb 25, 2010
Foreign Secretary wants composite dialogue resumed. ...
07:08 PM, Feb 25, 2010
India had a 3-hour long meeting with the 13-member Pakistani delegation. ...
05:18 PM, Feb 25, 2010
Khurshid Kasuri says terrorists shouldn't be allowed to dictate terms. ...
10:43 AM, Feb 25, 2010
Indian and Pakistani delegations will meet in New Delhi on Thursday. ...
08:06 AM, Feb 25, 2010
Engagement between the two countries will continue ...
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