In the first high-level official conversation in months, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Wednesday spoke to his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi and indicated New Delhi’s willingness to engage Islamabad if it expedited the probe to bring to justice the perpetrators of 26/11 Mumbai carnage.
Krishna stressed the need for Pakistan ‘to unravel the full [...]
Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari Monday wrapped up his three-day visit to Botswana Monday evening with the same message he carried to other African countries – India will not be ‘prescriptive’ while providing assistance.
On the last day of his Africa tour, Ansari called on Botswana President Seretse Khama Ian Khama, who cut short his [...]
With an Indian student killed and another set ablaze in Melbourne in the last 10 days, India Monday asked Australia to probe the incidents urgently and warned Canberra that failure to address the issue will cast ‘a shadow’ over bilateral ties.
Echoing the ‘deep concern’ here over the continuing attacks on Indians, External Affairs Minister S.M. [...]
India and Botswana Saturday signed two agreements on agriculture and education, with visiting Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari also expressing interest in mining in the southern African state.
The agreements were signed after talks between Ansari and his Botswana counterpart Momfati Merafhe on the first day of the visit to the country Saturday afternoon.
‘The vice [...]
As the body of 21-year-old Nitin Garg, an Indian student stabbed to death in Melbourne, was flown here Saturday, the Indian government announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 250,000 for his family.
The body arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport and was handed over to his relatives to be taken to Jagraon in Ludhiana in [...]
The body of 21-year-old Nitin Garg, an Indian student stabbed to death in Melbourne in Australia, was flown back to New Delhi Saturday.
The body arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport and was handed over to his relatives to be taken to Jagraon in Ludhiana in Punjab. The cremation will take place Sunday.
Garg, an [...]
India Saturday said it is ‘vigorously’ pursuing with the Australian authorities the latest attack in which a 29-year-old Indian has suffered burn injuries in Melbourne, and has clarified that his condition is ‘not critical’.
The attack early Saturday came barely a week after the fatal stabbing of an Indian student. Jaspreet Singh has received burn injuries [...]
An Indian man was allegedly attacked and set on fire by four men while he was parking his car in the northwestern part of the city in the early hours of Saturday. The attack comes a week after an Indian youth was fatally stabbed in this city.
The 29-year-old was taken to hospital with burns to [...]
Stepping up pressure on Australia in the wake of continuing attacks on Indian students, India Thursday asked Canberra to take ‘urgent action’ while it stressed the ‘need for calm and balance’.
Questioning the choice of Australia as an education destination by Indian students, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Thursday asked Canberra to ensure that Indian citizens [...]
India Wednesday offered lines of credit totalling $125 million to Zambia, even as both countries agreed there was need to reinvigorate ties to reflect changed times.
On the second day of his visit to Zambia, the first by an Indian leader in two decades, Vice President Mohammed Hussain Ansari held formal discussions with George Kunda, the [...]
The number of Indian students to Australia may decline in the coming year due to attacks on them in the past few months, Australian High Commissioner to India Peter Varghese said here Wednesday.
The envoy, however, stressed that his country was taking all necessary measures to ensure security of international students.
‘I am expecting a decline [...]
Australia’s Acting Foreign Minister Simon Crean has urged India not to fuel hysteria over the killing of a student in Melbourne even as India issued an advisory asking Indians studying or working in Australia to take extra security precautions while moving around.
Crean maintained there was no evidence the attack was racially motivated.
‘It so happens that [...]
Three days after an Indian youth was fatally stabbed in Melbourne, India’s external affairs ministry Tuesday issued an advisory asking Indians studying in Australia and those planning to do so to take extra security precautions while moving around in that country.
The Indian government issued the advisory even as Australian authorities Tuesday said that a partially-burnt [...]
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Monday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ensure the safety of youths from the state studying or working in Australia, following the killing of a youth in Melbourne Saturday.
‘Badal has urged the prime minister to ensure the safety and security of Punjabi youths who had gone to Australia to [...]
Germany said Monday it would consider giving visas to German twins born to an Indian surrogate mother, as the Supreme Court asked the Indian government to settle the issue in a fortnight through diplomatic channels.
German Ambassador Thomas Mataussek said his country would consider giving visas to the twins if the Indian government approached it.
‘If [...]
India is likely to sign several agreements in agriculture, health, power and small and medium enterprises during Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari’s three-nation, seven-day official visit to Africa beginning Tuesday.
The vice-president will begin his Africa visit from Zambia and later travel to Malawi and Botswana. He returns to India Jan 12. Ansari is accompanied by Minister [...]
The Supreme Court Monday gave the government a fortnight to settle the tangled issue of the citizenship of twins born to a surrogate Indian mother and German biological parents.
A bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice Asok Ganguly gave the government a fortnight to solve the issue through diplomatic channels.
Earlier, Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday gave the government a fortnight to settle the tangled issue of the citizenship of twins born to a surrogate Indian mother and German biological parents.
A bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice Asok Ganguly gave the government a fortnight to settle the issue through diplomatic channels.
Solicitor [...]
New Delhi/Melbourne, Jan 3 (IANS) Strongly condemning the fatal stabbing of an Indian student in Melbourne, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Sunday warned Australia that if such attacks continue, India will be forced to look ‘for other ways’ to address the situation.
In a statement, Krishna condemned the knife attack on Nitin Garg, a 21-year-old student, [...]
New Delhi/Melbourne (IANS) India Sunday ’strongly condemned’ the knifing death of an Indian student in a brutal attack in Melbourne, the first fatality in New Year in a spate of attacks on the community members that started last year.
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna strongly condemned the knife attack and death of the 21-year-old student, and [...]
Islamabad, Jan.2 (ANI): Pakistan has rejected India’s stance on occupied Kashmir, saying the dispute over the region was a result of New Delhi’s refusal to implement the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
Responding to statements of the spokesman of the Indian External Affairs Ministry that Pakistan occupied [...]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Asserting that Pakistan controlled Gilgit-Baltistan was part of Jammu and Kashmir, India Friday said it was opposed to any move that changes the status of the disputed region.
‘Any action to alter the status of any part of the territory under the illegal occupation of Pakistan has no legal basis whatsoever, [...]
New Delhi, Jan 01 (ANI): India and Pakistan on Friday exchanged lists of their nuclear installations.
This is the 19th consecutive year where both the countries exchange the list of nuke establishments as per a bilateral agreement, which prohibits any kind of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Wednesday advised his deputy Shashi Tharoor, who had aired dissenting views on the country’s new visa guidelines, saying ‘everyone will have to fall on the same page’ once the policy is formulated.
Krishna conveyed this pointed message when Tharoor came to his residence to offer an [...]
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Conveying concern over the reported sale of land belonging to gurdwaras in Pakistan, India Tuesday said it has asked the Pakistan government to look into the issue and take corrective action.
‘The reported incidents of sale of some of the land attached to gurdwaras in Pakistan has caused concern in India,’ [...]
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has taken the debate on tightening of Indian visa rules to the Twitter, questioning whether the restriction would actually strengthen security as the ‘26/11 killers had no visas’.
Tharoor tweeted Dec 24: ‘My only role is to object to them strongly. MEA (ministry [...]
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama arrives in India Sunday for the annual bilateral summit that will have trade and defence as the main items on the table. However, a civil nuclear agreement is still not likely to be reached this time.
Sixty-two-year-old Hatoyama will arrive in Mumbai, accompanied by his wife [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Clearing the confusion over the new tourist visa regulations, the government Thursday said a two-month gap between two visits is mandatory for foreigners holding long-term multi-entry tourist visas, but kept the rules flexible so as not to affect bona fide tourists.
New Delhi also clarified that visitors can re-enter India after [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Asserting that India and China have protected the interests of the developing world at Copenhagen climate conference, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna told his Chinese counterpart Tuesday that they now have to evolve a post-Copenhagen strategy.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi called up Krishna and during the conversation they ‘discussed [...]
Chicago/New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) The government Saturday said the Indian consulate general in Chicago had located the original visa application form of David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-origin terror suspect in US custody, and that his activities in India were being investigated.
‘Yes, they have been found. It’s being looked at. The papers were in the [...]
