United Nations: Despite being outnumbered, Indian peacekeepers fought with valour and prevented more casualties in the recent attack against a UN peacekeeping convoy that killed five Indian soldiers in South Sudan, a senior UN official said on Sunday. Assistant Secretary General for Field Support, United Nations, Anthony Banbury travelled to Jonglei state in South Sudan and met the Indian contingent in the wake of the April 9 attack that killed five Indian peacekeepers including a Lieutenant Colonel and five civilian UN staff contractors.
Banbury, who received a briefing by the contingent commander about the incident, said the attackers numbered around 150-200 while only 35 Indian soldiers were escorting the convoy. "It was clear that this was an unprovoked, unjustified and deliberate ambush against the convoy. The Indian soldiers fought with great professionalism, bravery and distinction," Banbury said from the South Sudanese capital of Juba.
He said the Indian soldiers showed "gallantry" in defending themselves and the civilians in the convoy adding that the number of deaths on the UN side would have been "much worse" had the Indian soldiers not fought with "such determination and professionalism." Banbury said the Indian peacekeepers in the UN mission in South Sudan are "upset" at the loss of their comrades but "they will continue to carry on their work in a professional and dedicated manner. We are lucky to have the Indian soldiers in our peacekeeping operations."
"In terms of the morale and feeling of the contingent, we were all very
08:56 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Juba: The killers in the tragic ambush of UN peacekeepers in South Sudan, that claimed the lives of five Indian Army personnel on Tuesday, not only outnumbered their target six times over but were also armed with sophisticated weapons, eyewitnesses said. In comparison, the convoy of 35 UN peacekeepers from India was bogged down by some heavy boring equipment and unarmed technical personnel, numbering around a dozen, even as the...
03:43 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Five Indian Army personnel, including a Lt Colonel were killed and four injured during a UN peacekeeping mission when their 32-member convoy was attacked. ...
11:55 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Kolkata: The body of Havildar Bharat Sasmal, who was killed in an ambush in South Sudan on Tuesday while serving in UN peacekeeping mission, was brought to Kolkata on Thursday. Defence sources said that Havildar Sasmal was among the five soldiers whose convoy was ambushed in Jonglei region of South Sudan on April 9. Five Indian Army personnel, including a Lt Colonel were killed and four injured during a UN...
11:10 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday announced financial assistance of Rs 20 lakh each to the family members of two peacekeepers from the state killed during a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. "The CM has announced financial assistance to families of Hawaldar Heeralal from Bulandshahr and Nayab Subedar Shiv Kumar Pal hailing from Pratapgarh district," an official spokesman said here. Condemning the incident, Akhilesh expressed his...
12:10 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Five Indian Army personnel, including a Lt Colonel, were killed during a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. The bodies of the martyrs arrived in Delhi on Thursday morning and are expected to given military state honours. ...
11:54 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: The bodies of the five Indian Peacekeepers, who were killed in South Sudan on Monday, have reached IGI Airport in New Delhi on Thursday. The five martyrs are expected to be given military state honours. Five Indian soldiers, including a Lt Colonel, were killed and five, including a Captain, were injured during a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan when their 32-member convoy was attacked on Monday. The...
06:29 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: Post-mortem on the bodies of the five Indian peacemakers, who were killed in South Sudan on Monday, will be conducted on Wednesday, said sources, adding that arrangements were being made to fly the bodies back to India by night. Two of the injured soldiers will also be flown back to India. They both require urgent medical treatment. Five Indian soldiers, including a Lt Colonel, were killed and five,...
12:35 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Post-mortem on the bodies of the Army personnel, who were killed in South Sudan on Monday, will be conducted on Wednesday, said sources, adding that arrangements were being made to fly the bodies back to India. Five Indian soldiers, including a Lt Colonel, were killed and four others were injured during a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan when their 32-member convoy was attacked on Monday. The deceased...
11:53 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New York: Members of the UN Security Council have condemned in the strongest terms the killing of five Indian peacekeepers in South Sudan and asked that the perpetrators be brought to justice. The members condemned the April 9 attack by unidentified armed persons on a UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) convoy in Jonglei, South Sudan, in which five Indian peacekeepers and at least seven civilians were killed, said a...
11:50 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday expressed anguish over the killing of five Indian army personnel during a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. "I pay tributes to our brave soldiers," Singh said in his condolence message to the bereaved families. A Lt Colonel was among the five army personnel killed on Tuesday when their 32-member convoy came under attack in Gurmuck in the volatile state of Jonglei,...
11:15 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Post-mortem on the bodies of the five Army personnel, who were killed in South Sudan on Monday when their UN peacekeeping convoy was attacked, is expected to be carried out on Wednesday, said sources, adding that arrangements were being made to fly the bodies back to India. Meanwhile, the United States has condemned the killing of the Indian peacemakers and applauded India as a leading supporter of the...
09:37 AM, Apr 10, 2013
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday strongly condemned the killing of five Indian Army personnel in an attack on a convoy of a UN mission in South Sudan, saying that such an act was a war crime and its perpetrators should be brought to justice. Five Indian Army personnel, including a Lt Colonel were killed on Tuesday and four injured during the UN peacekeeping mission when their 32-member convoy...
11:16 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Five Indian soldiers, part of the peacekeeping force, escorting a United Nations convoy in South Sudan have been killed in an ambush by Sudanese rebels. The five killed includes a Lt Colonel. Four other soldiers have also been injured in the incident, the Ministry of External Affairs confirmed on Tuesday. External Affairs ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin wrote on social networking site Twitter that, "The Indian Embassy is in...
05:18 PM, Apr 09, 2013
A Sudani national was arrested on charge of forcibly marrying a minor girl at Moghalpura in Hyderabad, the police said on Saturday. Three others, including a woman, were also arrested for helping him in the marriage, they said. ...
09:12 AM, Mar 02, 2013
More than 100 people have been killed in South Sudan in an attack by rebels and ethnic allies on a convoy of families from a rival tribe and their cattle, an official said on February 10. ...
10:58 AM, Feb 11, 2013
1. Kim Jong-un, North Korea In November 2012, Kim confirmed that small incidents against his regime had risen. His orders are to "mercilessly crush every one of them". Scholars say that Kim's popularity has fallen, especially among people in the countryside. While orders have been given to address these citizens, reports suggest they have not been executed. While the uprising is significant enough for Kim to address it publicly, scholars...
04:06 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the shooting and asked the South Sudan government to conduct an immediate investigation. ...
01:43 PM, Dec 22, 2012
New Delhi: In a boost to the tourism industry, India has relaxed its tourist visa rules by lifting restrictions imposed on foreign visitors to have a two-month cooling off period between subsequent visits. However, citizens of Pakistan, China, Iran, Iraq, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sudan and people of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin and "stateless persons" will continue to come under the 60-day gap rule. The restriction was imposed in 2009 after the...
01:48 PM, Dec 04, 2012
