Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said that the issue of Hafiz Saeed was discussed in the meeting. ...
04:48 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Seoul: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani met on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. Manmohan Singh thanked Gilani for conferring the Most Favoured Nation trading status to India. He also expressed willingness to visit Pakistan but only if 'strong and concrete' developments could be guaranteed. "I had a good meeting with him. I thanked him for the trade concessions that they...
08:01 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi/Washington: The US may be satisfied that India is "making steps in the right direction" to impose sanctions on Iran, but New Delhi has made it clear that it has no intention to stop oil imports from Iran or scale down business ties with Tehran. "With respect to India, they are making steps that are heading in the right direction," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a House...
01:50 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Kolkata: Yet another bombshell has been dropped on the Congress-led Centre by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, this time over excess drainage of water from the Farakka barrage to Bangladesh. In a strongly-worded letter to the Prime Minister, Banerjee called the Centre's delay in repairing two sluice gates of the barrage a criminal conspiracy. Her letter states, "This looks like a man-made disaster planned to plunge West Bengal into...
12:12 AM, Feb 19, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has reportedly alleged in her letter to the Prime Minister concerning the Teesta water-sharing pact that the Farraka barrage was a "man-made disaster, planned on the one hand with finesse and aplomb, to plunge West Bengal into a crisis and on the other hand, to provide 'water' bonanza to Bangladesh". Slamming it as a man-made conspiracy, she wrote, "It seems there was...
07:37 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai is reportedly meeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a bid to settle the Teesta water sharing agreement. The West Bengal CM had earlier written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raising objections over the Farakka Barrage water-sharing with Bangladesh. In her letter, Mamata said that a majority of water from the Farakka barrage was going to Bangladesh instead of remaining in...
04:23 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Male: One and half week after the coup in Maldives, India changed it's position and Foreign Secretary on Thursday announced that New Delhi wants early elections in Maldives. But initially, the speed with which the largest democracy in the world abandoned the youngest democracy in Maldives has left many bewildered. With India mediating to end the crisis, the new Maldivian regime on day came out with a roadmap that could...
09:38 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Washington: India underlined its commitment to implementing the landmark civil nuclear deal when Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on Wednesday met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and held a series of meetings. Clinton dropped by at a meeting between Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and Mathai, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said. Clinton's meeting with Mathai was to "make clear that we support these consultations on the full range...
09:06 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Washington: India on Tuesday expressed hope that the current economic woes in the US would not lead to protectionism and said that concerns of the Indian IT industry over anti-outsourcing measures announced by President Barack Obama recently will be addressed quickly. Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on his first bilateral visit to the US said that the Indian IT industry in the US has contributed $15 billion in taxes alone in...
12:22 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Washington, The Indian IT industry in the US has contributed USD 15 billion in taxes alone in the last five years, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said, stressing on the need to eliminate discriminatory actions. Mathai, on his first bilateral visit to the US in his capacity as the Foreign Secretary, expressed hope that the economic challenges in the US would not lead to protectionism and concerns of the Indian IT...
10:46 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Washington: India and the US will discuss a host of bilateral and regional issues during talks between top American officials and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, who arrived on Sunday. Mathai, who is on his first bilateral visit to the US, would also drive down to the Capitol Hill during his four-day trip to meet top US lawmakers and is likely to discuss with them the Iranian sanctions issue, officials said....
12:23 AM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: India on Tuesday said it will continue buying Iranian oil despite US sanctions and is not about to seek a waiver from Washington. "We have accepted sanctions which are made by the United Nations. Other sanctions do not apply to individual countries," Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai told reporters here. "We continue to buy oil from Iran," he replied when asked whether India was seeking waiver from the US...
12:48 AM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: Underlining its "impeccable record" in nuclear security, India on Tuesday asserted that it keeps "strictest control" over its atomic materials, as the curtains came down on a meeting of officials from 49 countries who had gathered here to firm up the agenda for the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea. "All nuclear matters are subject to strict oversight. We have an impeccable record. The government continue to...
12:11 AM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi/Washington: With the landmark India-US nuclear deal languishing even three years after it was signed, US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns will hold talks with senior Indian officials on Monday in yet another diplomatic bid to iron out differences over the civil nuclear liability regime. Burns, who holds most powerful position in the US State Department after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, touches down in New Delhi Sunday...
04:43 AM, Dec 11, 2011
Kolkata: The Prime Minister's Bangladesh visit seems to have run into troubled waters with West Bengal Chief Minster Mamta Banerjee backing out of it. She is said to be upset with final draft of the Teesta Water Sharing Agreement. After she decided to walk out of the visit, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, on Monday, made it clear that no agreement will be signed without the state's consent. "Anything agreed between...
08:38 PM, Sep 05, 2011
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