It is astonishing and equally a proud moment for India to see two of its women representing the country at the international platform while the hailing US comes with two men in front. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held the first high-level two-plus-two talks with[Read More…]
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I share Trump’s vision of prosperity for India, US: PM Narendra Modi
Amid uncertainties regarding US President Donald Trump’s trade and visa policies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that he shares Trump’s vision of prosperity for India and the US. “I share with him the vision of prosperity of our peoples through a strong India-US partnership, based on important convergences, inter alia,[Read More…]
Doklam dispute resolved with maturity, says Sushma Swaraj
New Delhi: There has been no change in the status quo at the site of the military face-off with China in Doklam and the issue was resolved with diplomatic maturity, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday. Replying to queries of Trinamool Congress member Sugata Bose in the Lok Sabha,[Read More…]
What is ‘Girinka’ and why PM Modi gifted cow to Rwanda?
The dust of sensitive mass lynching incident is yet to settle and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi made news of gifting cows to the villagers in Rwanda. India wondered what made him gift this unusual present to the beef-eating nation Rwanda. PM Modi too expected Indians to be pleasantly surprised[Read More…]
Sushma Swaraj’s plane ‘goes missing’ for 14 minutes
New Delhi: In a major scare, an Indian Air Force plane carrying External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj lost contact with air traffic control for almost 14 minutes on Sunday. Sushma Swaraj, who was travelling to Mauritius for the BRICS summit, departed from Thiruvananthapuram at 2.08 pm. While the aircraft changed[Read More…]
39 Indians kidnapped by Islamic State in Mosul are dead: Sushma Swaraj
New Delhi: Thirty-nine Indians kidnapped by the Islamic State in Iraq’s Mosul in 2014 are dead, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Tuesday. The minister told the Rajya Sabha that their bodies were spotted using deep penetration radar. The bodies were exhumed from mass graves and their identities confirmed by[Read More…]
Modi, Iran President discuss bilateral cooperation
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday discussed bilateral cooperation across a range of areas and regional issues during a meeting with Iran President Hassan Rouhani here. Modi welcomed Rouhani at the Hyderabad House here ahead of delegation-level talks between the two sides. “Both leaders held substantive and productive[Read More…]
Meeting between Jadhav and his mother, wife lacked humanity’: Sushma Swaraj
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday said the meeting between alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and his mother and wife lacked “humanity” and “goodwill” accusing Pakistan of conducting it as a “propaganda exercise” and “an opportunity to exploit the situation”. Sushma Swaraj was making a statement in the Rajya[Read More…]
Sushma Swaraj seeks report on attack on Swiss couple
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday sought a report from the Uttar Pradesh government after a Swiss couple were allegedly attacked in Agra on Sunday. “I have just seen this. I have asked for a report from the state government,” she said in a tweet attaching a news report[Read More…]
India has special Diwali gift for ‘deserving cases’
In a special gift on Diwali, external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, gave an assurance to all the pending medical visa applications. The minister asserted that visas will be granted to deserving applicants so that they can come to India for treatment. She shared this information on Twitter. Swaraj had granted[Read More…]
Sushma Swaraj grants medical visa to Pak girl for treatment in India
External affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, on Wednesday offered help and granted visa to 7-year-old Pakistani girl from Karachi to undergo an open heart surgery in India. Swaraj shared this information on Twitter. She accepted Nida Shoaib’s request for granting visa for her daughter’s treatment. Nida had applied for the visa[Read More…]
India is ‘mother of terrorism’: Pak UN Ambassador
Responding to Sushma Swaraj’s comments at the UN, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi, accused India of sponsoring terrorism in various parts of her country. She termed India as the “mother of terrorism” in South Asia. Exercising her right to reply after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj hit out at[Read More…]
From jihad to terrorism, here is all that Sushma Swaraj said at UN General Assembly
In her address to the United Nations General Assembly, union minister, Sushma Swaraj, said that the priority of India, since independence, has been to lift its people out of poverty. Swaraj also listed the steps taken by the Narendra Modi government towards financial inclusion, poverty alleviation and introducing social and[Read More…]
Kidnapped Indian priest, Father Tom Uzhunnalil, rescued from Yemen
An Indian priest, Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was kidnapped by extremists in Yemen, has been rescued from the conflict-torn country. He was abducted in March last year by Islamic State operatives when they attacked an old-age home run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in the Yemeni city of Aden.[Read More…]
India to grant medical visa to Pakistani nationals in bonafide pending cases: Sushma Swaraj
Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, on Tuesday, said that India will grant a medical visa in all the bonafide cases from Pakistan that are pending with the Indian government. This is a shift in India’s position as it had been asking for a recommendation letter from the Pakistani Foreign[Read More…]
Opposition to move privilege motions against Sushma Swaraj for ‘misinforming’
Opposition parties will move privilege motions against external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj in the Rajya Sabha for allegedly misinforming the House on India’s foreign policy, on Friday. Reportedly, the leaders of different political parties will move two privilege motions against Swaraj for allegedly “providing wrong information on the Bandung Asia[Read More…]
Sushma Swaraj targets Congress, raises Doklam issue in Rajya Sabha
The Doklam issue was raised in the Rajya Sabha by minister of external affairs, Sushma Swaraj, on Thursday. She also slammed the Congress leadership for its stand on the dispute between China, Bhutan and India. Here is all that she said: She praised PM Modi, adding that his Lahore visit[Read More…]
Pakistani woman thanks Sushma Swaraj after medical visa help, says ‘Wish you were our PM’
External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has been an active user on Twitter and helps people tweeting about any problems under her jurisdiction on international affairs. On Thursday, a Pakistani woman, Hijaab Asif, praised Swaraj after the latter directed the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to issue Asif a visa for[Read More…]
Sushma Swaraj says she can’t declare 39 Indians missing in Mosul as dead
External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said there is no concrete evidence that 39 Indians abducted from Mosul in Iraq have been killed and “I will not commit the sin of declaring them dead without any evidence.” Responding to allegations that she was “misleading the house” on whether the[Read More…]
Jadhav mother’s visa application being considered: Pakistan
Pakistan has said that it was considering a visa application of the mother of Kulbhushan Jadhav to let her meet her son, on Thursday. Jadhav was sentenced to death in Pakistan on the charges of espionage and terrorism. India had asked Pakistan to let Avantika Jadhav to meet her son.[Read More…]
India-China border standoff: Sushma Swaraj calls all-party meeting on Friday
With the Opposition slamming the Centre for its handling of the India-China border standoff in Sikkim, External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj, called for an all-party meeting in New Delhi on Friday over the month-long issue. The meeting has been called to discuss the events at the border and the steps[Read More…]
After Sushma Swaraj slammed Meira Kumar as biased, video of her praising the presidential candidate surfaces
Responding to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s tweet questioning the non-partisanship of opposition presidential candidate Meira Kumar during her term as Lok Sabha Speaker, the Congress Twitter handle on Monday posted an old video of the BJP leader showering praises on the Congress veteran in which she was heard saying[Read More…]
Presidential polls: Congress slams Sushma Swaraj for attacking Meira Kumar
The Congress slammed External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for targeting Opposition Presidential nominee Meira Kumar on Monday. It said the former should refrain from doing such things while holding a responsible position. “Sushma Swaraj’s tweet gives an impression that Meira ji did not allow her to speak, but that is[Read More…]
PM talks about terrorism, surgical strikes, lauds Swaraj in speech to Indian Americans
A day before his first meeting with US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed Indian Americans on Sunday. He talked about cross-border terrorism and the surgical strikes carried out by India across the Line of Control last year. The US has made counter-terrorism a crucial plank of his[Read More…]
Passport fee reduced for senior citizen and children
From Friday, passport application fees have been reduced for applicants under the age of 8 and over the age of 60. The announcement was made official by external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj. Swaraj further added that from now, all new passports issued will be in Hindi and in English, unlike[Read More…]