Speaking to CNN-IBN, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said that India has no angst against Italy. "They (Italy) had their political impulses, they had an election. There was strong political sentiment there," he said. ...
09:15 PM, Mar 22, 2013
A decision to return two Italian marines accused of murdering fishermen to stand trial in India stirred anger in Italy on Friday and calls for Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi to resign. Mario Monti's caretaker government on Thursday reversed a March 11 decision not to send the marines back from a home visit after Rome secured a promise from New Delhi that the two would not face the death penalty if...
08:23 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The Italian marines, facing trial for shooting dead two Indian fishermen in February 2012, returned on Friday. ...
08:07 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Italian marines, Massimiliano Lattore and Salvatore Girone, charged with killing of two Kerala fishermen, reached Delhi on Friday evening to face murder trial in the case. While External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said there was no "deal" between India and Italy on the issue, he assured Rome that the marines won't be arrested or given death sentence in the case. ...
06:55 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Insisting the government had "no deal" with Italy on the marines' issue, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said that India kept channel of communication opened despite pressure from public. "We always kept alive the hope that marines would return," said the Union Minister, while addressing a press conference in New Delhi. ...
05:49 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The two Italian marines, Massimiliano Lattore and Salvatore Girone, charged with killing two Indian fishermen are set to return to India. While India has called it a diplomatic victory, it has also assured Italy that the marines will not be arrested on their return and neither will they face death penalty as the case is not a rarest of rare case. ...
02:35 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Reacting to Italy's decision to send back the marines, the Bharatiya Janata Party said it was a result of combined efforts of the Opposition, the government and the Supreme Court. "Must say the combined effort of the Opposition to persuade the government to carry on its diplomacy seems to have worked. The tough stand taken by the Supreme Court also had its impact," BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said. ...
01:41 PM, Mar 22, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in his statement in Parliament said the Italian marines will not get death sentence as the Indian fishermen killings case was not a rarest of rare case. He also said they won't be arrested if they return before the apex court's deadline. ...
12:52 PM, Mar 22, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said that diplomacy is at work resulting in Italy's decision to send back two marines charged in the fishermen killing case and parried questions on Italian media reports that Congress President Sonia Gandhi influenced that government's decision. ...
11:26 AM, Mar 22, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said that the Italian marines charged with the murders of two Indian fishermen will face trial as usual in India and that the law won't change. This comes even as the Italian foreign office said that they have been assured there will be no death penalty for the marines. Sources also say there is a possibility that the marines could serve their prison term ...
11:02 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Attorney General GE Vahanvati has said that the Italian marines charged with killing two Indian fishermen will not be arrested immediately on their return to India on Friday. Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said that the marines will face trial as usual in India and that the law won't change. This comes even as the Italian foreign office said that they have been assured there will be no...
10:05 AM, Mar 22, 2013
A day after Italy agreed to send its marines back to India to face trial in the fishermen killings case, Italian ambassador Daniel Mancini is likely to move the Supreme Court on Friday requesting it to lift the Indian government's restraining order on his travel. ...
08:44 AM, Mar 22, 2013
It is a victory for India in the stand-off with Italy over the fate of the two Italian marines, Massimiliano Lattore and Salvatore Girone, accused of killing two Kerala fishermen. The Italian government has said that the marines will be sent back to India on Friday. ...
07:42 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Italy said it will send back two marines to India, who face trial for killing two Kerala fishermen, after receiving an assurance from the Indian government about the protection of their fundamental rights. "The two sailors will start tonight (Thursday night CET) for India," the Italian government said in a statement, reversing an earlier decision not to send them to India as agreed when they were granted permission to return...
12:50 AM, Mar 22, 2013
A military prosecutor in Rome is questioning the two Italian marines that the Indian government is insisting return to face trial in the deaths of two Kerala fishermen. India and Italy are in a standoff over the case. ...
09:37 PM, Mar 20, 2013
India would be breaking international law if it stops Italy's ambassador from leaving the country in a dispute over two Italian marines charged with killing two Indian fishermen, the European Union said on Tuesday. ...
05:10 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Breaking her silence for the first time on the Italian marines case, Congress President Sonia Gandhi said that no country should take India for granted. Sonia further said that the diplomatic immunity issue of Italian Ambassador Daniel Mancini must be taken up immediately. ...
11:07 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Italy said on Monday the decision by India's Supreme Court to bar the Italian ambassador from leaving the country violated diplomatic immunity law, but added it hoped to amicably resolve a dispute over the killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian marines. ...
11:03 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Coming down heavily on Italian Ambassador Daniel Mancini while hearing the case of Italian marines, the Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir restrained him from leaving the country till further orders. ...
09:27 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up Italian ambassador Daniel Mancini saying he can no longer claim immunity after the breach of trust. ...
08:31 PM, Mar 18, 2013
