New Delhi: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi will be in Delhi on Thursday on a two-day visit to formally invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit to be held in Tehran in August. Salehi, who will be in Delhi as the Special Envoy of President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, will hand over an invitation to the Prime Minister, the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement. During...
09:47 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Kalki Koechlin had to go through quite a transformation for her role in 'Shanghai' as director Dibakar Banerjee wanted her to look ugly yet adorable. The brief given by her director was quite simple - 'Look ugly'. However, it was nothing short of a nightmare to actually realise the filmmaker's vision. "Dibakar wanted me to look ugly and vulnerable. The first thing that he did was chop my...
05:55 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Some IT professionals and businessmen were facing problems in getting visas mainly due to outsourcing issues in those countries but Indian consulates are active in providing all help in resolving the grievances, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Asked during Question Hour about denial of visa by some countries to some IT professionals and even students, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said her ministry as...
10:40 PM, May 16, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday went hammer and tongs against the Union Home Ministry headed by P Chidambaram for treating the Tamil Nadu government with absolute disdain over the formation of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). Delivering her hard-hitting speech at the conference of Chief Ministers on the NCTC, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at New Delhi, Jayalalithaa took strong exception to the casual attitude displayed...
12:27 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: It was an emotional reunion the Bhattacharya family has been waiting. After nearly a year in foster care in Norway, two NRI children, separated from their parents on grounds of negligence, arrived in India to an emotional welcome following a prolonged custody battle and diplomatic pressure by India. The children - Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1) - escorted by uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya and their Norwegian foster father were...
07:19 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Notwithstanding the compensation of Rs one crore to the families of two fishermen allegedly killed by two Italian marines, the Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday said the detention case against those two Italians will continue. Reiterating India's position that it has the jurisdiction over the matter, official spokesperson in the MEA Syed Akbaruddin said there is a case in the Supreme Court over the jurisdiction of Indian...
06:41 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur on Tuesday confirmed that the Norway NRI children will stay in Delhi for the day. ...
12:08 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Washington: To foster greater understanding about the Indian democratic framework, a US university has decided to establish India Chair, which is said to be the first endowed Chair in North America devoted to study this aspect of the country. The India Chair in Democracy and Civil Society at the L Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) will be devoted to studying this...
10:15 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Bangalore: Karnataka's Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department has wasted Rs 54.53 crore by entrusting to a private company the computerisation project to digitise the data collected through a house-to-house survey and issue computerised ration cards to the eligible families. "The department wasted Rs 54.53 crore through its failure to enforce the agreed terms of implementation during the project's lifetime," said a CAG report, tabled in the just-concluded legislature...
07:11 PM, Apr 01, 2012
The State Minorities Commission has found that over 22 thousand properties owned by the Wakf Board was illegally encroached and sold over the last decade. ...
10:36 AM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Minority Affairs Ministry has been pulled up by a Parliamentary Standing Committee for returning unutilised funds, worth over Rs 587 crore, to the Centre in 2010-11. The Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment in its Twentieth report on the Minority Affairs Ministry noted that the quantum of surrendered funds was much lesser in previous years. The Ministry had earlier returned much lesser funds to the Centre,...
06:02 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: Thieves have struck the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) adjoining Prime Minister's Office in the high security South Block in New Delhi, decamping with the laptop and pen drive of a senior official besides attempting to break into two rooms. The incident comes two months after theft of a hard disk of a computer was reported from the Home Ministry in North Block. In November last year, a...
01:12 PM, Mar 19, 2012
New Delhi: The allocation for Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs for 2012-13 was on Friday increased by nearly 40 per cent to Rs 114 crore in the Union Budget as against the last year's Rs 81 crore. Out of the total allocation, Rs 55.37 crore has been given to the Ministry for general expenditure while Rs 20 crore has been allocated under the head 'public works'. Rs 6 crore has...
07:31 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: Sri Lankan special envoy Prasad Kariyawasam on Thursday apologised for his alleged remark that certain Tamil Nadu MPs had links with the LTTE. The MEA had summoned the envoy to explain his remark. Said Kariyawasam, "The government of India has expressed concern over the tone and content of my remark. I am very sorry about that. That is not what I meant. I have a lot of respect...
01:41 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Kochi: At a time when the European Union has come forward expressing willingness to intervene in the Enrica Lexie episode, a letter sent to the Union Ministry of External Affairs from the Italian Embassy is gaining significance. Through the letter, a copy of which is available with Express, Italy urged India to release the marines, arrested by the Kerala police. In a letter sent to the Ministry of External Affairs...
08:53 AM, Mar 12, 2012
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