The United States has announced that it will close certain embassies and consulates -- mostly in Muslim dominated countries on August 4 due to unspecified security reasons.
The driver, identified as Vijay Pal Choudhary, is on the run and police is conducting raids at several places across the capital and in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh to nab him.
Denying any role in bomb attack on an Israeli embassy car in New Delhi last year, Iran on Friday alleged that the charges of its involvement in the incident were made by those who have "their own criminal records".
Draft prospectus to be filed next week; second trust, with Panchshil, in a few months
India has launched Operation Ajay to facilitate the return of those who wish to come back home as a series of brazen attacks on Israeli towns by Hamas militants over the weekend triggered fresh tension in the region.
A 31-year-old woman from Kuwait who had arrived in India for treatment and went missing from Kolkata last month has been spotted in neighbouring Bangladesh this week, a police officer said in Kolkata on Thursday.
India was one of the very few countries where applications for US visas saw a major upswing after coronavirus-related travel restrictions were lifted.
A PTI journalist was verbally intimidated and physically assaulted by Khalistan supporters protesting outside the Indian embassy in Washington, DC, drawing a strong reaction from the Indian mission which said such activities underscore the violent and anti-social tendencies of these separatists.
A suicide bomber was on Thursday gunned down close to the Indian Consulate complex in Afghanistan's Kandahar province before he could detonate explosives.
In the wake of the arrest of Madhuri Gupta, a promotee officer posted in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, another senior embassy staffer has been recalled on suspicions of spying. The Pakistani daily reported that the senior official had not been arrested, but quietly recalled to New Delhi, and has been put on 'compulsory wait'.The Research and Analysis Wing had kept a watch on the official and his activities had been under the scanner for the last six months.
Security has been heightened at the Israeli embassy, consulates and other Jewish establishments in several states following intelligence inputs that terror groups like Lashker-e-Tayiba may target them.
France has evacuated some Indians along with citizens of 27 other countries as part of its evacuation mission from violence-hit Sudan.
With his face crushed beyond recognition, Gaud was identified with a tattoo of the word 'Om' on one of his hands, his family said quoting Indian embassy officials.
The United States is deploying up to 275 military personnel in Iraq to protect its citizens and property as the war-torn country battles a dramatic sweep by insurgents there.
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