New Delhi: China on Tuesday rejected talks that India had made concessions in the Chumar region in southern Ladakh to end its standoff across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), triggered by the recent incursion by Chinese troops in Ladakh's Daulat Oldi Begi sector. After the three-week long standoff ended on Monday, speculation was rife that India had agreed to demolish a border observation bunker in the Chumar region in...
06:54 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Reacting promptly on the affidavit submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) before the Supreme Court in connection with the coal scam on Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar "should resign right away". "The government has lost the moral ground to continue in power," said BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain, adding the affidavit has proved that all...
12:52 PM, May 06, 2013
Tehran: India and Iran on Friday discussed the developing situation in Afghanistan and agreed to remain in regular contact. The two sides also inked three MoUs during the 17th meeting of the Iran-India Joint Economic Commission which is being held here on May 3-5. Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his Iranian counterpart Ali-Akbar Salehi also discussed the Chabahar port project. Describing Iran as one of India's biggest...
11:43 PM, May 04, 2013
On Board Special Aircraft: India will participate in the upgradation of strategically crucial Chahbahar port in Iran, that gives access to Afghanistan, and the issue will be discussed when External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid holds talks with his counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi. "We have taken a decision. We will collaborate for development of the port," Khurshid told reporters accompanying him on a three-day visit to Iran. He said the Cabinet...
02:30 AM, May 04, 2013
On Board Special Aircraft: The planned visit by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to Beijing next week is under a cloud as he said on Friday that the progress in dialogue to end stand-off in Ladakh is not satisfactory and India would have liked "much better response" from China. Khurshid, who is slated to travel to Beijing on May 9, said the review of his visit has not been done...
09:12 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid is to go ahead with his May 9, 2013 Beijing visit amid the stand-off between the two countries over the incursion by Chinese troops in Depsang area of Ladakh. External affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said on Thursday, in answer to a question, that Khurshid has said that "he intends to go and that is the last word". He said that the Chinese...
04:25 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Ways to increase commercial links with sanctions-hit Iran to reduce huge bilateral trade imbalance will be high on the agenda when External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid travels to Tehran on Friday on a three-day visit. India's participation in the upgradation of Iran's Chahbahar port, which gives access to Afghanistan, will also be among a host of issues expected to figure in the talks that Khurshid will have with...
03:25 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Known for using metaphors to describe complex situations, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday compared India with legendary boxer Muhammad Ali who tired his adversaries and then with a single left hook, floored them. Maintaining that India has the history that if someone wants to take a few blows at it, the country will be able to withstand them, he said, "All we should know is how...
09:15 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The government would share with parliament the details of the death of Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani hospital early on Thursday days after a brutal assault in a Lahore jail, a minister said. "Parliament is in session. I think the first information we should give should be to parliament. Prime minister has conveyed his deep anguish," External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters here. He said the government...
11:47 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday said he was "extremely anguished" by the death of Sarabjit Singh in a Lahore hospital following a brutal attack on him in a high-security jail. "We are extremely anguished by the death" of the Indian prisoner, Khurshid told reporters when asked to react to the death of Singh. "We are going to issue a statement in Parliament. The Prime Minister has...
10:50 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Concerned over the condition of Sarabjit Singh, who has slipped into "non-reversible coma", India on Wednesday strongly asked Pakistan to release him immediately for best available treatment, saying this was not the time for invoking "legal and bureaucratic reasons". "We are concerned at the condition of Sarabjit Singh indicated by reports made available by doctors treating him in Jinnah Hospital (in Lahore). Our High Commissioner has met the...
06:09 PM, May 01, 2013
Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are among 16 Indians who have found a place in the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine's list of the 500 most powerful people on the planet. Apart from them, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Defence Minister AK Antony and External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid are also in the list. Indian spiritual leaders Baba Ramdev and Sri Sri Ravishankar are also in the...
04:45 PM, May 01, 2013
Lahore: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's lawyer will move the Lahore High Court seeking permission for Indian doctors to examine him in Pakistan. He said the Pakistani authorities have not been responding to the family's queries on Sarabjit's health and so they want to move court asking for Indian doctors to join the Pakistani team of doctors treating Sarabjit. "The doctors from India should be allowed to come here and join...
10:40 AM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The UPA-II is facing one of the biggest crisis in its tenure after the Supreme Court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to explain the extent of political interference in its investigations into the coal block allocations scam and name the officials involved in the exercise. Harin Raval has already resigned as the Additional Solicitor General. The question now is whether the man at the centre of the...
08:40 AM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said there is no need to press the panic button even as the Chinese incursion in Ladakh enters day 17 on Wednesday. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Khurshid said, "There is a difference of opinion and perception, but no confrontation. We can express concern, but we need not press the panic button." He also said that the standoff between India and China can be...
07:55 AM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said that as of now there was no plans to cancel his visit to Beijing in wake of Chinese incursion in Ladakh. He, however, appeared to keep his options open saying "one week is a long time in politics". "Can I cancel my visit? Government has to decide. There is no such decision and there is no reason we should do...
03:27 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Moscow: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Monday asked Pakistan to take "seriously" India's appeal for the release of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, comatose in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault. "We have been concerned of getting him (Sarabjit) back to India. We have been repeatedly pushing the matter. We have pulled out everything we know in diplomacy to reach out for this matter," Khurshid said in...
02:07 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Beijing: China on Sunday took note of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks over PLA's incursion into the Depsang Valley and said that it is willing to work with New Delhi to deal with differences while maintaining peace at borders and forging strategic cooperative partnership. "We have noted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement," a statement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. "The two sides have been in communication through the working...
07:25 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: BJP on Sunday demanded that External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's visit to China on May 9 be cancelled over the issue of Chinese incursion in Ladakh and slammed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for calling it a "localised problem". The Government on its part said India is trying its best to deal with the incursion issue in a constructive manner, as the standoff between India and China on Chinese...
06:58 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New York: Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan, who was briefly detained on Wednesday at a US airport, on Sunday accused External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid of hatching a "conspiracy" to defame him outside India. He even claimed that a call on continuation of Samajwadi Party's support to the UPA government will be taken by party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav after hearing his version and that of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav...
11:05 AM, Apr 28, 2013
