Dhaka is not in favour of full membership to Afghanistan and instead supports observer status to it, informed sources said.
They were shot on Friday as they headed for Karbala in a bus, officials said.
The reasons are manifold including personal, financial, family and work related.\n
Sri Lanka has raised certain environmental issues concerning the Rs 2427 crore Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
The issue of the labour agreement came up during discussions between the Minister of State for External Affairs, E Ahamed and Oman's Minister of Manpower Juma bin Ali Al Juma in Muscat on Wednesday. The draft MoU include various measures for the welfare of Indian workers so as to check many labour-related problems.
She was warmly received by Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed has said India is deeply concerned about the welfare of the four million overseas Indians and the country's foreign policies are framed taking this factor into account.
In the first high-level contact, India is sending a special envoy to Palestine to talk to the newly-elected Hamas regime, Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed informed the Rajya Sabha Tuesday.
Four more Indians were confirmed to have died in the devastating cyclone that hit Oman early this week, taking the toll of Indians to six, even as six others remain missing.
Schroeder was received by Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on his arrival.
The ministry of external affairs is working with the department of posts to increase the number of speed post centres where passport applications are accepted, by nearly 300 in three months.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh said the hostages would soon reach Kuwait by road.
The appeal was directed at a group in Iraq, which is holding seven persons, including three Indians, hostage.
Air-India on Saturday launched a new long haul flight from Delhi connecting Dhaka, Kolkata and London, with Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed saying it would go a long way in strengthening Indo-Bangla relations.
During the Thai prime minister's stay in India, the two countries are expected to sign an educational exchange programme agreement, besides exploring ways of enhancing cooperation in other fields.
The meeting came two days ahead of a debate in Parliament on India's stand over the Iran nuclear programme.
India and Pakistan have successfully completed two rounds of the Composite Dialogue.
Meetings of SAARC foreign ministers and foreign secretaries will precede the summit.
In one of the largest single evacuation exercises during the nine-day old West Asian crisis, India on Thursday pulled out 607 of its nationals from Lebanon to Larnaca (Cyprus) for being airlifted to India.
Eighteen Indian workers from Punjab were reportedly subjected to humiliation by their Malaysian employer, who allegedly forced three of them to cut their hair and forbade them from wearing a turban.
Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed and family members welcomed Antaryami, Tilak Raj and Sukhdeo Singh on their arrival at Indira Gandhi International Airport by a Kuwait Airlines flight.
It is for the first time in the history of Independent India that not a single Muslim is part of the Union Cabinet.
Saudi jails have 1,444 Indians, UAE has 937, Bangladesh 893 and Singapore 580 while Pakistan has only 365.
Software and services industry continued to play a dominant role in the overall growth of Indian economy in 2003-04, Union Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed said in Kochi on Wednesday.
He was arrested by the US-led forces in Iraq about four months ago on charges of entering a 'prohibited' area and taking photographs.
While the death of one person has been confirmed, the fate of the remaining 17 people is not known
'Five million Indians are working in Arab countries. It is because of the emotional and cultural relations we have had with the Arabs,' says Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed.
Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed will be with their family members when they arrive by a Kuwait Airways flight.
A newspaper report said some army officers at the Army Headquarters had committed a security breach by allegedly destroying 90 files.
A KGL official spoke to the negotiator, Sheikh Hisham al-Dulaimi, on Thursday.
The abductors of three Indians in Iraq have threatened to execute one of them if their demands are not not met by 8.30pm IST Sunday.
This came out in the Lok Sabha when Speaker Manohar Joshi congratulated him on his new assignment.
'After the presentation of the Budget, the House will be adjourned.'
India's demand for dropping of all charges against its former Deputy Consular General in New York Devyani Khobragade will come for discussion during the proposed Indo-US dialogue to resolve the issues arising out of her arrest in the US, the government said on Thursday.
Amid outrage over the menace of forcing minor Muslim girls into wedlock, police have arrested three persons, including the mother of a United Arab Emirates national, who forcibly married a minor girl in Kozhikode, Kerala.
Saseendran said his resignation should not be seen as an acceptance of guilt.
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