
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday said that the visiting Italian minister was satisfied with the probe in the fishermen killings case. He also said that the Italian Foreign Minister also will visit the country on Tuesday for further discussion and the improvement of the bilateral ties between the two countries. "Italian minister expressed satisfaction on the progress in Kerala. The Italian Foreign Minister will arrive on...

04:29 PM, Feb 24, 2012

Rome: Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship off a Tuscan island found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said. Italy's national civil protection agency, which is monitoring the operation off a Tuscan island, said three of the bodies were recovered a few hours after being spotted by fire department divers. It said they are those of...

12:18 AM, Feb 23, 2012

Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Staffan De Mistura said that a proper dialogue was needed to have a proper solution. ...

02:40 PM, Feb 22, 2012

Giglio: The captain of the capsized Costa Concordia could be sentenced to a cumulative total of more than 2,500 years in prison if convicted of causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship and multiple counts of manslaughter, it emerged on Monday. The length of sentence was calculated, which totted up the jail terms that Captain Francesco Schettino could face if convicted on all the charges that are expected to be brought against...

03:25 PM, Feb 08, 2012

Rome: Nudged gently by the tides off Tuscany, the capsized Costa Concordia has been deemed stable enough on its rocky perch for salvagers to begin pumping fuel oil from its giant tanks as early as on Tuesday. The cruise liner, its hull gashed by a reef and pocked by holes blasted by divers searching for the missing, yielded two more bodies on Monday, 10 days after the accident. The corpses...

08:06 AM, Jan 24, 2012

The first batch of Indians rescued from the Italian cruise liner returned to Delhi on Thursday. ...

02:27 PM, Jan 19, 2012

Mumbai: "Standing at the edge of the deck, I left everything in the hands of the Almighty, and just jumped," said Jason D'Silva. And the Almighty must have been listening, as it was this very leap of faith -- off the capsizing Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia and onto a teetering lifeboat tossing in the choppy waters -- that miraculously saved the crew member's life last Friday. Jason spoke to...

12:19 PM, Jan 18, 2012

Mumbai: Twenty-nine people, including India's Russel Terrence Rebello are still missing from the partially sunken cruise ship Costa Concordia off Italy's coast. In Mumbai, the family of Terence Rebello has been going through agony, waiting for a word on his whereabouts. 32-year-old Rebello was a waiter aboard the luxury cruiser that ran aground off the Tuscan coast in Italy on Sunday. Indian officials say that so far 201 crew members...

11:34 AM, Jan 17, 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

Porto Santo Stefano: About 40 people were still missing Sunday more than 24 hours after an Italian cruise ship with more than 4,000 on board capsized off Italy's west coast, killing at least three people and injuring 70. The captain of the luxury 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia was being held in jail accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, Italian police said. Passengers, some saying it felt like...

08:26 AM, Jan 15, 2012