Tag: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj

Bhubaneswar: Kadhamal MP Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh on Saturday sought intervention of Odisha government for the rescue of Odia sailor Dibya Ranjan Behera who is stranded in Dubai for the last two months. According to reports, Dibya Ranjan Behera of Khajuripada along with 18 other Indian crew on board ‘Shaker 2’ ship have been detained by […]

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday condoled the death of Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of now-jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. “I am sorry to know about the sad demise of Kulsoom Nawaz. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family. May her soul rest in peace,” Sushma Swaraj tweeted. Sushma Swaraj […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday “strongly” condemned the terror attack in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad city that killed at least 19, including many Sikhs on Sunday, and offered India’s assistance to Kabul. “We strongly condemn the terror attacks in Afghanistan yesterday. They are an attack on Afghanistan’s multicultural fabric. My thoughts are with the […]

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 Saturday, the Airports Authority of India said on Sunday. Sushma Swaraj, who was travelling to Mauritius while on her way to attend the BRICS meet in South […]

Kathmandu: A total of 15 Indian nationals, stranded in Everest region for two days, on Saturday sought intervention of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to evacuate them and she has asked Indian Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri to look into the matter. “Currently stranded in Lukla since two days, Nepal, with copter company looters refusing to […]

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said she has sought a report from the Indian Embassy in the US following reports of an attack on a Sikh schoolboy in a city in Washington State. “I have seen news reports about the beating of a Sikh boy in US. I have asked @IndianEmbassyUS […]

New Delhi: Enhancing its engagement with the Baltic region, India on Monday signed an extradition treaty with Lithuania following a meeting between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her visiting Lithuanian counterpart Linus Linkevicius here. “During the visit, the two Ministers signed the Treaty on Extradition between India and Lithuania and the protocol amending and […]

New York: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday met US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly Session here and strongly raised the issue of H1-B visas. “Deepening global strategic partnership, EAM @SushmaSwaraj meets with Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State in their first standalone meeting,” External Affairs […]

Abuja/New Delhi: Nigeria has summoned the Indian envoy in Abuja to express displeasure over the attacks on Nigerian students in India and voiced concern that the incident was not the first of its kind, the country’s Foreign Office said. Sola Enikanolaiye, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nigeria, summoned Indian High Commissioner Nagabushana Reddy, […]

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev on Friday discussed a wide range of issues pertaining to bilateral economic relations, official sources here said. Trutnev, accompanied by leaders from Russia’s far east and a business delegation, is on a visit to India from March 15-18. The two leaders […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met visiting Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Minister A.K. Abdul Momen and said that relations between the two neighbouring countries have been on an upward trajectory and New Delhi will work to build on this momentum. Modi congratulated Momen on his appointment as Foreign Minister and appreciated his gesture […]

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday sought details from the Indian Embassy in Pakistan following reports of two Hindu teenager girls being abducted on the eve of Holi in Sindh province. “I have asked Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to send a report on this. @IndiainPakistan,” Swaraj tweeted tagging the media report. […]

Panaji: Separated due to visa-related discrepancies from her 11-year-old daughter who is currently under care of temporary guardians in Goa, a 42-year-old Polish single mother stranded in Thailand, has now reached out to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Twitter for help in desperation. Marta Kotlarska, a Polish artist and photographer who is on a […]

New Delhi: Senior advocate Harish Salve charged Re 1 as his fee to represent India during the public hearing in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague. Pakistan, on the other hand, spent more than Rs 20 crore on lawyers to prove that Jadhav was a spy. Former […]