New Delhi: Six Indians were killed and six others remain missing after a major fire broke out on two Tanzanian-flagged ships in the Black Sea, the External Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday. Conveying its condolences to the families of the Indian seamen, the Ministry identified the victims as Pinal Kumar[Read More…]
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#MeToo movement: Woman takes back her allegation of sexual harassment against MJ Akbar
Another woman takes back her allegation of sexual harassment against MJ Akbar saying that he did not do anything and that she might be imagining it. The woman who had given brief description of the experience she had with MJ Akbar when he was with The Asian Age. In her[Read More…]
Union Minister Sushma Swaraj greeted in Sanskrit language in Tajikistan
Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, who is visiting Tajikistan’s capital to attend a two-day conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)’s Council of Heads of Government, was greeted in a ‘Sanskrit’ message during her welcome in a community event in Dushanbe on Thursday. Not everyday there is a welcome speech[Read More…]
Didn’t receive any request from Rahul for Kailash Mansarovar Yatra: MEA
New Delhi: The External Affairs Minisry said on Thursday that it did not receive any request from Congress President Rahul Gandhi to undertake this year’s Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. We have not received any formal request for his visit to the Tibetan Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China, External[Read More…]
MFN status to Pakistan is an obligation: MEA
Ruchi Ghanashyam appointed Secretary in MEA
Vikas Swarup appointed as Indian envoy to Canada
India wants NSG berth for its non-proliferation record: MEA
India slammed China for saying that membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) could not be viewed as a “farewell gift”. India wanted the membership not as a “gift”, but because of its “non-proliferation record,” said Vikas Swarup, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs while speaking at a press[Read More…]
New passport rules: Aadhaar as DoB proof, add options for single parents, sadhus
Ministry of external affairs on Friday unveiled a series of changes in the passport application process including now sadhus and sanyasis to get passports without providing the names of their biological parents, making it easier for them to get the important document to travel abroad. This will be acceptable if[Read More…]