Wisconsin: The former girlfriend of slain suspect Michael Page in Wisconsin gurudwara shooting has been arrested and is facing charges of felony possession of weapons. However, it is unclear if the weapon was illegal and if she is involved in the shootings. Reportedly, during a search operation, the police recovered a gun from the residence of Misty M Cook, the ex-girlfriend of Michael Page, who allegedly went on a shooting...
08:06 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Foreign Minister SM Krishna who spoke to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says safety must be provided cutting across religious denominations. ...
05:40 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Monday spoke to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the shooting incident at a Wisconsin gurudwara that left seven people dead and requested for a full and prompt investigation in a bid to give a strong message of reassurance to the Indian community regarding their security and welfare. He also requested strengthening of security at places of worship during a telephonic...
11:15 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: India and Indonesia on Friday inked a treaty on avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and discussed strategic bilateral and regional issues, including South China Sea in the backdrop of increasing Chinese influence in the region. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and his Indonesian counterpart Marty M Natalegawa co-chaired the fourth meeting of the India-Indonesia Joint Commission and...
05:34 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Islamabad: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna will undertake a three-day visit to Pakistan from September 7 to review the second round of the bilateral dialogue process with his counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar. Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal met Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Monday and informed him about the dates for Krishna's visit, diplomatic sources said. The dates for the visit were earlier suggested by the Foreign Office....
12:14 PM, Jul 24, 2012
An Indian fisherman was shot dead and three others injured by a US Navy ship off the Dubai coast as their boat approached the ship. ...
04:01 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: India on Monday asked the UAE to register a case against the US Navy ship that reportedly killed an Indian fisherman as his boat approached the ship off the Dubai coast on Monday night. Three other Indian nationals were injured in the firing. India also sought a report from its ambassador in Dubai. The acting Consul General in Dubai had met the injured fishermen. They are said to...
11:35 AM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh has filed a fresh appeal to President Asif Ali Zardari seeking mercy on the occasion of that country's Independence day on August 14, his lawyer Awais Sheikh said on Thursday. Sheikh, who met Sarabjit in Lahore jail this afternoon, in an email letter to the prisoner's son Swapandeep, said that his father had signed the letter addressed to Zardari for...
02:23 AM, 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: Two days after the foreign secretaries level talks, Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar in Tokyo on Sunday. Government sources said Krishna raised the revelations made by alleged 26/11 handler Abu Jundal and that his interrogation 'corroborated' fellow accused David Headley's claims about the involvement of Pakistani officials in the attack. The two foreign ministers are slated to have a structured...
11:46 AM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: There is a possibility of a meeting between Foreign Minister SM Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on the sidelines of a conference on Afghanistan in Tokyo on Sunday. "Though the minister has two confirmed bilateral meetings with France and Japan on the margins of this conference, there is also a possibility of a meeting between Krishna and Khar," official sources said on Saturday. Such a...
04:00 AM, 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: The Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary level talks ended on Thursday morning with Pakistan proposing a joint investigation into the 26/11 Mumbai carnage and categorically stating that Pakistan has not been involved in any terror act in India. Addressing a press conference after the talks, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Jilani said, "I bring a message of goodwill, peace from the government and people of Pakistan. We talked over Confidence Building...
11:48 AM, Jul 05, 2012
Washington: Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao has said shared economic, diplomatic and security goals have brought the two nations and their peoples closer than ever. The recently concluded annual strategic dialogue between India and the US had led to several important advancements in their strategic partnership, she wrote in "The Hill", an influential Washington newspaper focusing on Congressional politics. "These include enhanced cooperation on many fronts, including in health and education...
11:51 AM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: As celebrations continued over Surjeet Singh's return from Pakistan to India, efforts picked up to bring back another Indian prisoner from Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh. However, Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney admitted that the government there is under pressure from religious extremists who are against Sarabjit's release. Sarabjit's family is running from pillar to post to expedite his release. On Thursday, the family met External Affairs Minister SM...
07:40 AM, Jun 29, 2012
New Delhi: Pained at Pakistan's flip-flop on Sarabjit Singh, his family on Thursday stepped up efforts to get the Indian death-row convict released from jail by seeking the Centre's intervention and accused the neighbouring country of playing a "cruel joke" on them. Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur, who is fighting for his release from a Pakistani jail where he is languishing for the past over 20 years, and his daughter along...
01:20 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: After Pakistan's flip flop over the release of death row convict Sarabjit Singh, his family on Thursday sat on a dharna at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, demanding the release of Sarabjit. Sarabjits sister Dalbir Kaur is expected to meet the External Affairs Minister SM Krishna shortly. Hours after reports emerged on Tuesday that Pakistan was to free Sarabjit Singh, the Pakistan Presidential spokesman clarified that authorities had...
11:17 AM, Jun 28, 2012
Hours after announcing that Sarabjit Singh would be released, Islamabad confirmed that it's not him, but another Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh who is being sent home. ...
11:09 PM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday asked the government should explain how Foreign Minister SM Krishna announced that Pakistan would release death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh but later said it was Surjeet Singh who would be freed. "When Krishna announced Sarabjit would be released, there was happiness all over India but things changed suddenly. The government must take people into confidence as to how could the minister...
08:44 PM, Jun 27, 2012
