India and Sri Lanka are to release 20 of each other’s fishermen, marking the beginning of a reciprocal process to tide over an issue that has caused tension in bilateral ties. The gesture comes ahead of the Tamil festival of Pongal, and was announced here by the external affairs ministry spokesperson. “As a goodwill measure […]
India said Monday that it was in touch with Bangladesh over reports of attacks on Hindus during and after the general election there. External affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said the government was aware of the reports of attacks on minorities in the past few days. He said the Bangladesh home ministry had ordered police […]
With Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade back in India and a US diplomat sent back to America in a reciprocal gesture, India and the US look all set to resume business as usual. In fact, both sides are holding an event in the very place where it all started – New York. On Tuesday, the consulate […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said one of the biggest achievements of the UPA government was increasing the country’s power generation capacity to meet growing power needs. The prime minister said this after laying the foundation stone of a nuclear power plant in this village in Haryana’s Fatehabad district. The first phase (1,400 MW) of […]
il India is encouraging domestic and global companies to explore potentially hydrocarbon-rich areas through stable and enabling policies towards achieving its goal of self-sufficiency in hydrocarbons by 2030, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday. He was inaugurating the 11th International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition “Petrotech-2014” at the India Exposition Mart here, organised by […]
With the bitter India-US row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat defused with her departure for India, both sides are hoping to bring the “important” relationship back on track in the weeks ahead. One sentiment encountered during the discussions to work out a deal over the treatment of Devyani Khobragade, India’s then deputy consul […]
More than half of the tourists visiting Nepal are Indians, and a majority of them used land routes to enter the Himalayan nation, according to the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). According to report released by the NTB Friday, a study, which it has undertaken on a daily basis throughout the year 2012, found that at […]
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade arrived here Friday night following her indictment by a US grand jury for alleged visa fraud. She arrived by a US Airlines flight at after 10 p.m. India has expelled an American diplomat in a reciprocal gesture. Khobragade, 39, who was India’s deputy consul-general in New York, was arrested on Dec […]
India Friday told the US to withdraw one of its diplomats involved in the case of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade after she was asked to fly back to New Delhi. Official sources said the US embassy was “asked to withdraw forthwith a US diplomat of similar rank as Khobragade”. “We have reason to believe that […]
The government Thursday approved a proposal to increase the number of MBBS seats in the country by 10,000 by upgrading existing state and central government medical colleges. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the health ministry’s proposal related to the centrally-sponsored scheme for upgradation of existing state government/central government medical colleges to increase the […]