New Delhi: The Italian government on Saturday summoned India's Ambassador to the country over the killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian marines, said Ministry of External Affairs sources. Foreign Ministry sources confirmed that the Indian Ambassador was called to the Italian Foreign Ministry on Saturday over the issue. According to the sources, the concern of the Italian government at the charges filed against the marines in custody in Kerala...
07:44 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: In the Kerala fishermen death case, Italy on Friday recalled its India ambassador Giacomo Monteforte to Rome. The ambassador has been called back for consultations over the detention of the two Italian marines who allegedly shot dead two Kerala fishermen. Meanwhile, Italy's deputy foreign minister Stefan Mistura insists that the compensation paid to the slain fishermen families was not blood money. The decision came on a day when...
08:52 PM, May 18, 2012
Lahore: LeT founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has served legal notices on two Pakistani journalists for allegedly concocting a report about his secret meeting with US Ambassador Cameron Munter, seeking Rs 10 crore as damages. The notices were served on columnist Nazir Naji and reporter Amir Mir by Saeed's lawyer AK Dogar. The notices contended that Naji's column in the Urdu daily Jang on May 9 and Mir's report in the...
01:14 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: There is a clash between the Ministry of External Affairs and the Home Minister over a visit of eight ambassadors from European Union countries to Nagaland. The Home Ministry has written a letter to the MEA, claiming it was not informed by the ministry of the delegation visiting the north eastern state. According to the letter, the Home Ministry and the Intelligence Bureau had no knowledge of the...
05:00 PM, May 14, 2012
US ambassador-designate Nancy J Powell arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, following her 29 March confirmation by the American Senate as the first woman head of the US mission in India. To mark her arrival, the US embassy released a 2.36-minute video, which has also been subtitled in 10 Indian languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi and Gujarati. ...
11:03 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Italian Ambassador Giacomo Sanfelice di Monteforte on Thursday thanked Odisha government for its efforts to resolve the hostage crisis. "I thank the chief minister for the support granted so far and liberation of Claudio Colangelo. I told him how this case of abduction of Paolo Bosusco is closely followed in Italy," Monteforte told reporters after meeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The ambassador said he also informed Patnaik about the...
11:37 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Washington: The US Senate on Friday confirmed career diplomat Nancy Powell as ambassador to India, a position that had remained vacant for the past year. The Senate confirmed ambassadors to 16 countries following Obama administrations's concern over the posts lying vacant. The confirmation had been lying pending before the senate for about two months now. Obama's first ambassador to India, former congressman Timothy Roemer, had announced his resignation in April...
03:40 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Watch out Salman Khan's latest ad shoot for a travel website. ...
08:22 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Iranian Ambassador to India Mehdi Nabizadeh on Wednesday denied Iran's role behind the Israel embassy car attack. "We are denying this. I hope the case will be verified. India and Iran always had a good relation. Definitely both governments will collaborate with each other," he said. He said, "It happened in India and if Indian security says something like this, we have to verify. We hope that India...
02:07 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Israel's Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz said he has more than 100 per cent faith on Indian investigators. ...
11:12 PM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Iranian Ambassador to India said on Tuesday that although Tehran was "not unhappy" with New Delhi's stand on the country, it would urge India to "pay attention to the realities that are being shaped". Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, the diplomat said that India and Iran had worked out an agreement for the payment of oil. "A mechanism has been worked out between India and Iran...
12:57 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Notwithstanding border dispute and visa row, India and China on Monday projected a positive outlook of their relations, with China saying that the rise of the two countries together was "irreversible" which no force can stop even as some countries are trying to "drive a wedge". Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yan said in spite of all kinds of prophecies with "ill-intention", bilateral relations take their own course and move...
11:06 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday conveyed to Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin the country's concern over the 'sensitive' issue of a Siberain court hearing a petition seeking a ban on Bhagavad Gita. Ahead of the court hearing on Wednesday, Krishna called Kadakin and told him that the Russian Government should provide all possible help to resolve the issue. Taking up the issue, which has created a uproar...
01:34 PM, Dec 27, 2011
Washington: Nancy J Powell, a career diplomat with wide experience in South Asia, has been named by US President Barack Obama as the next ambassador to India, the first woman to be nominated for the coveted post. 64-year-old Powell would replace Timothy J Roemer, who resigned from his post in April 2011 following a two-year stint as US envoy to India, after going through a confirmation process by the Senate....
09:09 AM, Dec 17, 2011
New Delhi: The jockeying for India House, the seat of the Indian high commission in London, seems to be over with the government apparently zeroing in on J Bhagwati, India's current envoy to Brussels. Bhagwati, who has been India's ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and to the European Union for over three years, has an impressive and varied resume that includes stints in the finance ministry and in the World Bank....
02:52 AM, Nov 29, 2011
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