Paris: Two months after he was shot dead by French special forces, a 23-year-old Algerian origin terrorist was found to have been plotting to attack the Indian embassy in Paris on the direction of his Taliban handlers in Pakistan. Quoting sources from the French Internal Intelligence and the Special Forces, Le Monde reported that Mohamed Merah's Taliban handlers in Pakistan had tasked him to attack the Indian mission in Paris....
12:11 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: A small Dornier plane belonging to a private company crashed in the mountains of Nepal on Monday morning killing 14 people including 13 Indian pilgrims. The plane belonging to Agni Air had 21 people on board including three crew members. It crashed after hitting a hill top while attempting to land at the Jomsom airport in northern Nepal, said an official at the Rescue Coordination Committee of Tribhuvan...
03:37 PM, May 14, 2012
Kathmandu: Thirteen Indians were among the 14 people killed as a Dornier plane crashed in the mountainous northern region of Nepal on Monday. Reports said that there were 16 Indians among the 18 passengers on board the plane. The plane belongs to local airline company Agni Air. Marketing and Administration Director of Agni Air Pramod Pandey said that there were 16 Indians on board. Police official Nareswor Aryal also said...
11:38 AM, May 14, 2012
The sources said that the government is closely watching the situation after the explosions rocked different areas in Kabul. ...
07:34 PM, Apr 15, 2012
New York: India has taken up with the US the issue of Shah Rukh Khan's detention at a New York airport, conveying its "deep concern" over the incident that "need not have happened". "We have taken it up with the State Department," Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao told reporters. Rao, who was in the city for a Columbia University conference on India, said the detention of the Indian...
12:37 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Washington: The bomb threat to the Indian Embassy in Washington was made by a caller from the western US state of Utah speaking in "Hinglish", indicating that he was apparently of South Asian origin, sources said in Washington. The bomb threat prompted the evacuation of the Embassy premises, chancery and Ambassador Nirupama Rao's residence. Giving more details about the threat, police and US Secret Service said a suspicious object was...
08:02 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Washington DC: The Indian Embassy in the US was on Tuesday evacuated following a bomb threat. However, all the employees of the embassy were reported to be safe. The authorities conducted searches in the buildings of both the Indian embassy as well as the consulate in Mass Avenue, downtown Washington DC. Reacting to the incident, Indias Ambassador to US, Nirupama Rao, said that an anonymous called had claimed to have...
10:25 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Oslo: Norway on Friday said it was willing to look for "new solutions" in the interest of the two NRI kids kept in foster care, a day after it expressed its inability to hand them over to their uncle in the wake of a "conflict" in the family which has now prepared a fresh custody agreement. "Although Friday's hearing was cancelled, this does not affect the child welfare's willingness to...
06:49 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: Aiming at providing them exposure to democracy and its benefits, the Indian embassy in Kabul has sent a group of 20 children from Afghanistan who will also witness the Republic Day parade on Thursday. The embassy there has sent these 20 children to see India. They will see both ancient and modern structures such as the metro rail to get a feel of how democracy helps in development...
05:17 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Four activists belonging to a women's group in Ukraine went topless at the Indian embassy in Kiev to protest New Delhi's alleged plan to block Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakh women from entering India as part of a national anti-prostitution campaign. The topless activists climbed the Indian embassy's balcony and unfurled banners that said, "Ukrainians are not prostitutes!", "Delhi, close your brothels" and "We demand apologies". The women belonged...
05:24 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
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
New Delhi: The Indian embassy in China has issued a statement warning Indian traders to avoid transaction in the Chinese city of Yiwu. This comes just a day after an Indian diplomat was manhandled by hooligans inside a city court. The diplomat identified as S Balachandran was denied medication to control a severe diabetes condition. Balachandran was reportedly providing consular assistance to two Indian businessmen standing trial in Yiwu. Reports...
07:29 AM, Jan 04, 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
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