The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday described the indictment of diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the United States as a "defeat" for India, saying that the criminal case against her would remain in America.
Commenting on news reports that the United States had proposed to accredit an official deployed at the American embassy in Islamabad to the NCA, Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq said, "Delegations and individuals do meet the members of the NCA, but it is not possible to accredit an official to the NCA." The NCA comprises the President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Defence Minister and top civil and military officials.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is scheduled to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday, had, at a press conference with US President George Bush in Washington, condemned human rights abuses in Tibet and called on China to engage in talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Reacting to Rudd's comments, the Chinese ambassador to Australia conveyed his country's protest to a foreign affairs official in Canberra.
In the last year since the Indian embassy in Kabul was bombed on July 7, allegedly by the Sirajuddin Haqqani faction of the Taliban based in Pakistan's North Waziristan province, India has well and truly joined in United States president Barack Obama's 'AfPak strategy' that is aimed at jointly looking at Afghanistan and Pakistan as the expanded theatre of war against the Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
A coalition of community organisations in the Washington, DC metropolitan area accorded a rousing farewell to the deputy chief of mission at the Indian embassy, Ambassador Raminder Singh Jassal, who will now take charge as India's new ambassador to Turkey.
The United States has claimed that India is faced with a 'high threat' from terrorism and asked its citizens to be vigilant, prompting New Delhi to assert that the country is a safe place and such an advisory was unwarranted. Home Minister P Chidambaram said India is "safer than any other country in the world" and New Delhi will try to persuade Washington to withdraw such an advisory. He was reacting to an 'Urgent Warden Message' posted on the American Embassy website.
The event from 8:30 to 11 am on June 21 would feature an exclusive video message by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Al Qaeda 'had been preparing to spread its ideology to India', says Bruce Hoffman, Director Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University.
Defence Minister A K Antony, on his maiden visit to the United States, lauded the Indian American community for their sustained activism and lobbying on behalf of the India-US civilian nuclear deal, which he said was catalytic in helping to fructify it.Antony was speaking at a reception, organised by the Indian American community of the Washington, DC metropolitan area, at the Indian embassy."You played a major role in shaping public opinion in India and the US," Antony said.
Deputy director for the People's Liberation Army Office for International Military Cooperation Major General Huang Xueping held a video conference with his US counterpart Michael Chase last week.
The number of American diplomats in the US Embassy in Moscow and its four consulates across the country should be reduced to 455 by September 1, which is the same as the number of Russian diplomats currently serving in the US.
'It's a very tough situation. We're talking to India. We're talking to China. They've got a big problem there'
A United States Federal Bureau of Investigation team comprising law officials is in New Delhi and will visit Mumbai soon to finalise its own chargesheet besides working on logistics for its officials to appear before a special court holding the Mumbai attack trial.
In a significant move coinciding with the visit of a top United States official probing war crimes, the American embassy in Colombo on Thursday posted pictures of places where civilians had died allegedly during Sri Lanka's final war against rebel Tamil Tigers four years ago.
The United States has issued a global travel alert and ordered its embassies throughout the Muslim world to close down temporarily, amid fears of an Al Qaeda terror strike, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.
A senior officer of the United States Air Force on Monday said his country was happy to see the issue of the US aircraft detained in Mumbai being sorted out quickly.Responding to queries during a press conference held on the sidelines of the Indo-US joint Air Force exercise, Ex-Cope India 2009 in Agra, the Defense Attache of the US Embassy in New Delhi, Colonel Stuart Kowward, said the issue has been sorted out and the officials were waiting for a final signal from India.
Like autumn leaves, we are left with a huge, miserable-looking heap of broken dreams. Whoever thought a day would come when we couldn't even agree with the Americans as to who were the Taliban we both have been fighting against all these years?
More than 50 American scholars have been waiting up to 11 months for their Indian visas.
Israel and the UAE agreed to normalise their relations, and an agreement on the mutual establishment of embassies is expected to follow in the coming three weeks.
The India-Japan joint naval exercises are a strategic signal for China, observes Dr Rajaram Panda.
Pre-departure orientation programme for students and parents regarding US studies.
The United States has blacklisted extremist outfit Harakat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami Bangladesh, suspected of involvement in bomb attacks in India and other countries, as a 'global terrorist organisation'. The US financial institutions will now be required to freeze assets and properties of the outfit that are in the US or "within the control of US persons," a US embassy statement said. Bangladesh, which has already banned HuJI-B, immediately reaffirmed its position against terrorism
The text of US Congressman Joe Pitts' letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requesting that Modi be denied permission to enter the country.
India would like to see a consensus that builds on essentially the ideas that the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi put forward of a nuclear weapon free world --moving towards it in pre-determined, verifiable time frame.
The United States has accepted all Indian passports, including ones issued for 20 years, dismissing media reports to the contrary.
Although most of Kosovo is ethnically Albanian, many Serbs consider it their native homeland and a cradle of their culture. Some 13,000 people were killed in the 1998-1999 war, sparked by clashes between the forces of the rump Yugoslav state -- Serbia and Montenegro -- and Kosovo separatists. The conflict ended when NATO carried out an air campaign against Serbia.
The IAF had said that during the aerial engagement on February 27, one of its MiG-21 Bison shot down a F-16.
The Baloch and Sindhis also delivered a memorandum to the Embassy of Pakistan, outlining their concerns and demands.
As investigators grope for clues in various terror attacks in the country, the United States on Monday said it is ready to offer help in the probes if New Delhi wants. "We are ready to offer any kind of help to Indian authorities in investigation of blast cases if government wants us to do so," Legal Attache of the US Embassy in New Delhi Kathy Stearman said.
'The person who carried out the London attack... was a fighter from the Islamic State, and did so in response to calls to target citizens of coalition countries,' the ISIS statement read.
The United States embassy's pollution monitor recorded 'hazardous' air quality with the index scoring an alarming 878, which the mission considers 'beyond its air quality index' (AQI), which ends at 500.
The US State Department had identified him as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" in January 2017.
'He is not that crazy.' 'He is driven by a deep sense of Russian power have been diminished.'
On Monday, the fifth Air India flight landed in Delhi from Bucharest with 249 Indian nationals while the sixth flight arrived from Budapest here with 240 Indian nationals, the officials said.
United States visa officials were expecting to process 600,000 applications in India this year, a top embassy official said.
India should do what we can to ensure that our two friends do not get into a confrontation that is meaningless and ultimately damaging to everyone including us.
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