
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has been appointed as the next Ambassador to the United States, an assignment she will take up after superannuation next month-end. Sources said Rao's appointment to succeed Meera Shankar as the US Ambassador has been cleared by the government and a formal announcement is expected soon. The 1973-batch IFS officer assumed the office of the Foreign Secretary on August one, 2009, becoming the second...

07:32 PM, Jun 22, 2011

New Delhi: US official Raymond Davis, arrested after he shot and killed two Pakistani men he claimed were trying to rob him, was today remanded to judicial custody for 14 days by a local court in Lahore. Lahore Police Chief said, "Investigators reject Raymond's self defence plea. Davis tried to kill fleeing boy." Pakistan High Court will also hear petition regarding diplomatic immunity. Davis was brought to the judicial magistrate's...

12:34 PM, Feb 11, 2011

The bomb explosion tore through a mosque in the Aka Khel area of Khyber. ...

09:18 PM, Feb 18, 2010

Tim Roemer, US envoy to India made the remarks on Wednesday. ...

09:28 PM, Aug 12, 2009

America's ambassador to Nepal expressed regret after a public outrage triggered by the visa denial. ...

04:11 PM, Aug 17, 2006