New Delhi: The trial of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's aide Iqbal Mirchi is set to begin in a British court on Thursday. Mirchi has been charged with threatening to kill 41-year-old Nadeem Kader. Last month, a lower court, granted him conditional bail. India's efforts to extradite him have been in vain. The government attempted Mirchi's extradition in 1995 but was unsuccessful. CBI sources told CNN-IBN, "We have to see if...
08:26 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Ministry of External Affairs has said that it has formally started work on the process of extraditing Iqbal Mirchi from the UK. ...
08:43 AM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: The government on Saturday officially announced the appointment of Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao as the next Ambassador to the United States, an assignment she will take up shortly. Rao, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the United States of America and she is expected to take up her assignment shortly, official spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs said. Her appointment to succeed Meera...
03:15 PM, Jul 16, 2011
New Delhi: The External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Friday (July 1) watched the Jokovic-Tsonga semifinal at Wimbledon, while he was in London on a five-day official visit. The meeting with his British counterpart had concluded on Thursday and Krishna - known to be a tennis fan - didn't waste much time to head to SW19. While he was at Center Court, the diplomat who was part of the official...
11:49 PM, Jul 04, 2011
London: India and the UK will hold wide-ranging talks on foreign policy matters, including Afghanistan and counter-terrorism, during a crucial meeting between External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his British counterpart William Hague on Thursday. As a prelude to the high-level meeting, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met Permanent Under Secretary in the British Foreign Office Simon Fraser on Tuesday and had a "wide-ranging exchange on the current priorities for...
05:42 PM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: Ranjan Mathai, India's ambassador to France, will be the next Foreign Secretary, succeeding Nirupama Rao. Mathai, a 1974-batch IFS officer, will assume charge from August one and will be there for a term of two years, official spokesperson Vishnu Prakash said. After completing post graduate studies in Political Science at the University of Pune, Mathai joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1974. He has served in Indian embassies...
03:27 PM, Jun 27, 2011
New Delhi: India on Friday asked all its nationals living in Yemen to leave that country through whatever commercial means available in view of the increased violence in which at least 150 people have been killed so far. "Keeping in view the evolving situation and the increase in violent incidents in Yemen, all Indian nationals living in the country are advised to exit the country through whatever commercial means available,"...
03:11 PM, May 27, 2011
Kolkata: Former Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said he got a hostile reception from the country's mainstream media for his tweets on several issues. Tharoor, the most active political personality on Twitter in the country, said, "I had gone for Twitter since time was limited to me. But there is a danger in Twitter because of the 140-character limit within which one has to express...
10:24 PM, Apr 20, 2011
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna will pay a three-day visit from Wednesday to Nepal, which is witnessing a political deadlock that has stalled the progress in the peace process and hindered the drafting of a new constitution by next month's deadline. The visit also comes amidst increased anti-India activities of Maoists, an ally of the current Jhalanath Khanal government. Apart from meeting the President and the Prime Minister...
04:30 PM, Apr 19, 2011
New Delhi: India on Thursday said there was no dilution in its position that all those responsible for the Mumbai terror attack should be brought to justice expeditiously and the on-going dialogue with Pakistan will seek to address the country's terrorism-related concerns. "It is our expectation that all those responsible for the Mumbai terrorist attack will be brought to justice expeditiously. This position is shared by the international community at...
10:37 AM, Apr 14, 2011
Six Indian sailors were on board MV Suez, when it was hijacked by Somali pirates on Aug 2, 2010. ...
01:36 PM, Mar 09, 2011
New Delhi: The seven-day deadline set by Somali pirates to free six Indian sailors for ransom ends on Wednesday. In Lok Sabha, the Opposition has staged a walk-out demanding immediate Government intervention for the release of the six indian sailors held hostage by Somali pirates for the past seven months. Speaking on the pirates issue in Lok Sabha, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said, "We are in touch with the...
01:01 PM, Mar 09, 2011
United Nations: In a public gaffe, India's External Affairs Minister SM Krishna inadvertently read out the speech of his Portuguese counterpart at a UN Security Council meeting, but quickly corrected it after India's chief diplomat at the UN pointed it out to him. Krishna read out Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado's speech for full three minutes at a debate on security and development on Friday before India's Permanent Representative to...
11:35 PM, Feb 12, 2011
Thimphu: Eight South Asian countries, including India on Wednesday approved a proposal to exempt 19 categories of people from visa requirement and agreed on a liberalised scheme under which select journalists, business persons and sportspersons can be given long-term multi-entry visas after prior clearance. A meeting of SAARC Foreign Ministers, attended by External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, also endorsed India's proposal for setting up of a SAARC Forum, a...
05:33 PM, Feb 09, 2011
New Delhi: India on Tuesday said terror threats to its embassy in Kabul were real and the "grim possibilities" have been confirmed by its own intelligence inputs and those from Afghanistan and friendly countries already in action there. "I did talk about the threat to our embassy and consular offices (in Kabul) recently. The threats are real and some of the attacks were successful, some others were thwarted. We have...
06:05 PM, Jan 11, 2011
New York: The United States says President Barack Obama's visit to India in November will be a "defining moment" in the history of their ties as Washington has an important stake in India's emergence as a global power. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna "agreed that the President's visit will be a defining moment in the history of our bilateral relations," a senior...
12:25 PM, Sep 28, 2010
New Delhi: It seems unlikely now that External Affairs Minister SM Krishna will formally meet his Pakistani counterpart on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, after the comments made by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the manner in which India has handled the condition of Kashmiris. This could also hamper the prospects of composite dialogue towards the end of the year when Qureshi is...
08:37 AM, Sep 18, 2010
New Delhi: Over a month after the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) debuted on Twitter, the response from netizens of the fast-growing social networking site has generally been welcoming, although tinged with some surprise that the stodgy Government of India was finally waking up to the power and reach of new media. MEA's public diplomacy division created its Twitter account, @indiandiplomacy, on July 8. It has since written 94 tweets...
10:44 AM, Aug 16, 2010
SM Krishna says Canadian High Commissioner was called in the External Affairs Ministry over the visa denial issue. ...
11:10 PM, May 27, 2010
Canadian High Commissioner told to stop the blatant discrimination against Indian security agencies. ...
08:00 PM, May 27, 2010
