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.
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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".
A suicide bomber was on Thursday gunned down close to the Indian Consulate complex in Afghanistan's Kandahar province before he could detonate explosives.
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.
The department Thursday confirmed by email that Officer Daniel Auderer has been administratively reassigned to a non-operational position.
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.
Kishore Jena on Friday received his visa to travel to Hungary, paving the way for him to compete at the World Athletics Championships
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.
Distressed over gang rape of its national in Madhya Pradesh, Switzerland on Saturday sought a "swift" investigation into the incident so that the victim gets justice.
The Taliban on Thursday claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb attack outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul and claimed that the actual toll due to the blast was 17, Al Jazeera channel reported.The channel, quoting the Taliban website, identified the suicide bomber as Khalid.Al Jazeera added that the Afghanistan government and intelligence sources have indicated the involvement of foreign hand in the blast as "planned by a state and not a group of bandits."
India on Friday presented evidence to Pakistan regarding involvement of ISI in the July 7 Kabul embassy bombing as the members of the Joint Anti-Terror Mechanism (JATM) met in New Delhi.
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Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and reopen embassies after talks in Beijing between officials from the two rival Middle East powers, Iranian state media reported on Friday.
Seven fishermen from Kerala, three from Tamil Nadu, and a citizen of an Arab nation who went fishing from Ajman, UAE, were detained by the Iranian Navy a few days ago after they unintentionally crossed over the waters of the Middle East nation.
'You ain't seen anything yet,' EAM Jaishankar says about the India-US relationship.
In 2017, a retired R&AW officer conveyed that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was keen to get monarchy restored in Nepal and suggested that I support these efforts.
Defenders Konsam Chinglensana Singh and Lalchungnunga did not accompany the Indian football team that left the country on Sunday for the Asian Games in China.
Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI was behind the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul which killed 17 people and wounded more than 60 others, Afghan envoy to the US has claimed.
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It will also reduce such charges for other categories and adjust the consular exchange rate.
Scores of protesters, mostly students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University had gathered outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi to protest against Israel's air strikes in the Gaza Strip resulting in civilian casualties.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday permitted the mother of a Kerala woman, who is on death row in Yemen for killing a Yemeni national, to travel to the West Asian country to negotiate about blood money with the victim's family and save her daughter from the gallows.
In a statement issued to the media on board a special flight to Japan for the G8 Summit, Dr Singh said, " I am horrified to know of the death of our personnel in the dastardly terrorist attack on our embassy in Kabul. The loss of precious Indian and Afghan lives must be condemned in the strongest terms possible. Those responsible, directly or indirectly, for this terrorist attack and for making this possible are no better than the worst criminals."
'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.' 'Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.'
Ariha Shah was placed in the custody of Germany's Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt) on September 23, 2021 after the then seven month-old baby suffered an accidental injury. She has been in foster care since then.
Danti is highly focused on diplomatic entities. It may already have full access to internal networks in Indian government organisations.
As the Left government in Kerala gears up to inaugurate a cultural centre at Travancore House, in the heart of the national capital, on August 4, the Travancore royal family has moved the central government and various local bodies in Delhi with a request to halt the same.
The curtailed squad that is now travelling to the Mexican capital include Rakshitta Ravi, Bommini Mounika Akshaya and Amulya Guruprasad among girls while Harshavardhan GB, Pranav Anand, Dushyant Sharma and
Accusing the United States of sheltering blind activist in its embassy in Beijing using "abnormal means", China on Monday asked America not to repeat such an incident again in the overall interest of bilateral ties.
India-born wonder kid Ritankar Das, who this year became the youngest graduate topper of the prestigious University of California in more than a century, has been felicitated by the Indian embassy in Washington for his outstanding academic achievements.
Going ahead with unilateral sanctions against the Muammar Gaddafi regime, the US suspended its military ties with Libya and temporarily closed down its embassy in Tripoli.
Shaboo, who is living with her husband, Nedal Toman, and youngest daughter, Karima, in Gaza, said the 'water supply was officially cut off' in addition to electricity.
A Chicago-based man, Joseph M Czuba, aged 71, has been arrested and charged with murder and hate crimes after allegedly stabbing and killing a 6-year-old boy and seriously wounding his mother.
Amid the diplomatic sparring and souring of bilateral ties in the wake of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegation of Indian involvement in the killing of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Special Envoy and Coordinator, Global Engagement Centre, James Rubin said the standoff was a 'tricky subject' as he sought cooperation into the investigation as far as it goes.
The American Centre regularly screens movies for invited audiences apparently without a licence to do so. To stop this "transgression", a notice has been sent by the government.
Two weeks ago, New Delhi asked Ottawa to downsize its diplomatic presence in India.
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