Thimpu: Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai arrived here on Wednesday to hold consultations with senior Bhutanese officials during which status of India-assisted projects and other key bilateral issues will be discussed.
Mathai is scheduled to meet the Chief Adviser of the Interim Government Lyonpo Sonam Tobgay and call on the King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck apart from meeting other senior officials, during his three-day visit.
Earlier this year, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, during his visit to Bhutan, had assured top leadership that India will not let their projects slow down.
"The projects will continue on pace and whatever timeline is to be laid out, we will work on that timeline", he had said. ...
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06:05 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said India will take "whatever necessary action is required for the betterment of country" while maintaining that there were systems between India and China to resolve situation arising out of Chinese incursion in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in Ladakh eight days ago. "We have a system among us, in which regional commanders discuss in these flag meetings. We have been...
07:15 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Berlin: Notwithstanding severe economic sanctions slapped by the US and UN against Iran, India will continue to buy oil from "vital supplier" Iran, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said on Thursday. "We will continue to buy oil from Iran," Mathai said adding that the recent decline in oil import from Iran was due to logistics and banking problems and not because of any other reason. Mathai, who is part of the...
10:17 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: As tensions mount in the Korean peninsula, India on Monday said it was watching the situation 'very carefully'. Noting that Joint Secretary in foreign ministry's East Asia division, Gautam Bambawale, was just back from a visit to North Korea, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said,"We will conduct a review as to what is the actual situation and what we need to do." India, in the past, has expressed concern...
05:40 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will present an First Information Report (FIR) against the marines to a special court in New Delhi's Patiala house on Friday. The marines are accused of killing two Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala in 2012. Days after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) handed over the Italian marines case to the NIA, a case has finally been registered against them. The...
10:14 AM, Apr 05, 2013
An emotional Italian Defence Minister Giampaolo Di Paola has said that the two Italian marines who were sent back to India to face trial for the killing of Indian fishermen did so willingly. ...
04:47 PM, Mar 29, 2013
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09:15 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The Italian envoy met the Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Matha, hours after the country refused to return the two marines charged with murder of two Kerala fishermen. Earlier at a meeting with a group of MPs from Kerala, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the move "unacceptable". ...
08:02 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Bangladesh's key Opposition leader Khaleda Zia cancelled a plan meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday even as fresh violence marred his first foreign trip since taking over presidency. "We had fixed a time for Khaleda Zia to call on the President. The President was in fact looking forward to this meeting. An experience shows that during such hartals, the meeting with the President will not be suitable," said Indian ...
10:09 AM, Mar 04, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee is visiting Bangladesh on March 3-5, 2013 in a trip that is expected to take bilateral relations between the two neighbours to new heights. ...
07:22 AM, Mar 03, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee is visiting Bangladesh on March 3-5, 2013 in a trip that is expected to take bilateral relations between the two neighbours to new heights. ...
06:25 AM, Mar 02, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday made his maiden tweet to express sympathies with the people of Hyderabad, the venue of twin blasts that killed nearly a dozen people. "Saw friend/Foreign Secretary Mathai discussed importance of relationship w/ #India, expressed sympathies to brave people of #Hyderabad -JK," Kerry said in his first tweet in his capacity as the top American diplomat. ...
10:59 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Newly appointed US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday met visiting Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai and stressed that there would be no change in India-US relationship, which he is looking forward to take a step forward during his stint at the Foggy Bottom. ...
10:47 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Barely a month before Russian President Valdimir Putin's visit, India has sought to dispel doubts about any stress in bilateral ties, saying Russia remained a key priority for India's foreign policy and sought greater economic ties with Moscow. ...
02:23 AM, Nov 26, 2012
"India deserves the best of military equipment and the US wants to be a quality supplier of equipment and technology to India," said Dr Ashton Carter, the visiting US deputy defense secretary, after consultations with National Security Adviser SS Menon and foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai. The US Defense Department, he said, had stopped using the term "defence trade" when dealing with India, replacing it with "defence cooperation", meaning they were...
04:31 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: With India's international engagements expanding at a rapid pace, the Ministry of External Affairs is facing an "acute shortage" of personnel and is planning to induct 500 officers in the next few years to meet its requirements. "We have been hearing repeatedly about how small the ministry is and how we are unable to cope with challenges of our time due to shortage of resources. I would like...
03:32 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Tokyo: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on Sunday during which he strongly raised the issue of anti-India activities being carried out from the Pakistani soil, maintaining that New Delhi has given additional concrete evidence of the same. Krishna, who met Khar on the sidelines of a conference on Afghanistan here, asked Pakistan to take steps to check terror activities directed against India. During...
05:07 PM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Thursday said he hopes to visit Islamabad in the first week of September for official talks and the dates will be decided by the foreign secretaries of the two countries. "We are looking for dates in the first week of September," Krishna told reporters when asked about the date for his Pakistan visit. He added that he will visit Islamabad before he...
02:54 AM, Jul 06, 2012
The Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary level talks ended on Thursday with Pakistan stating that it was not involved in any terror act in India. ...
10:11 PM, Jul 05, 2012
New Delhi: Arrested Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative and 26/11 handler Abu Jundal was in focus during the India-Pakistan talks that concluded on Thursday. The neighbouring nation asked for evidence that Jundal was a Pakistan-backed terrorist. It also denied that state actors were involved in the Mumbai attacks. Clearly, India's pressure on 26/11 has not worked. India, however, sent a strong message to Pakistan during the foreign secretary level talks. It asked...
06:40 PM, Jul 05, 2012
