The blast outside the United States embassy in Turkey on Friday that claimed two lives was a terrorist attack, the US State Department has said. "We can confirm a terrorist blast at a check point on the perimeter of our embassy compound in Ankara, Turkey, at 1.13 PM local time," said State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee launched the Web site of the Indian Embassy that will also be used for issuing security advisories for Indians in Afghanistan from time to time.
A 23-year-old man from Surat working as a 'helper' for the Russian Army was killed in a Ukrainian missile strike in a war zone, as per the claim made by his relatives.
He will also order the state department to start the process of planning and building a new US embassy in Jerusalem, but White House officials said that process would take at least three years.
The American Embassy in Mumbai has scheduled a its third Super Saturday on June 19. This event is used to meet the increasing demand for visas, the embassy said in a statement.
A web portal which once belonged to the Indian embassy in Bahrain has now turned into a porn site.The teen porn website, located at www.indianembassy-bah.com, was used by the Indian embassy before they moved to www.indianembassybahrain.com last year.A spokesperson of the Indian embassy said they simply stopped using the old website after changing to a new administrator. Officials were shocked to discover that the old address was now being used to peddle porn.
'Caught in the middle of a war in a foreign country was hardly something any of us had envisaged.'
A Pakistani national was arrested at the American Embassy in Chilean Capital of Santiago, with traces of explosives, US officials said in Washington. The individual identified as Muhammad Saif-ur-Rehman Khan has been handed over to Chilean authorities and the US has launched an investigation into the case.
On how long the crew would have to stay on board the ship, the spokesperson said, "At this time, we do not know how long the investigation process will take and until that process is complete, the crew will remain on board."
The Haryana police in Ambala district Thursday said they will be seeking cancellation of passports and visas of those found indulging in acts of vandalism during the ongoing farmers' agitation.
Over 1,000 laborers angry over unpaid wages stormed the Bangladesh embassy in Kuwait Sunday, destroying furniture and vehicles.
Gunfire and several blasts were reported from central Kabul on Sunday afternoon after militants struck there in coordinated attacks.The attacks were primarily aimed at the British embassy in central Kabul, said media reports.
The plane that took off from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates carrying 303 Indian passengers, including many minors, was grounded at the Chalons-Vatry airport in Marne on Thursday.
India on Thursday said the United States State Department's recent remarks on the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is 'unwarranted' and asserted the country is 'proud of its independent and robust democratic institutions' and committed to protect them from any form of undue external influences.
An official of the Indian Embassy in China, on Wednesday, met the 21 Indians detained there for alleged diamond smuggling and legal help is being arranged for them, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said.
As a massive bomb blast rocked Kabul, India today said its Embassy in the Afghan capital and all the personnel working at the mission are safe.
Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden bankrolled the bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta in retaliation for Australia sending troops to Iraq, an alleged terrorist reportedly told the police in Canberra
Observing that the revised regulations primarily affect travellers who wish to enter India within two months of their last departure from India on tourist visa, the US Embassy said it has received reports about the problem being faced by other visa holders also.
The United States embassy's plans to expand and construct an eight-storey building in Islamabad has been challenged in Pakistan's supreme court on Thursday by a lawyer who said the move would allow Americans to use the new structure for "spying" on the country's top leaders.
The demonstrators, numbering about 50, were protesting in front of the Chinese Embassy at Kautilya Marg, against the alleged killing of a monk in China, according to sources.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday spoke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and discussed the situation arising out of Thursday's attack on Indian Embassy in Kabul.
According to The Nation, a security official stationed at the Naval Headquarters had apprehended a man named Abdul Ghafoor last month while he was doing a recce of the entry/exit points of the naval installation.
Pro-Palestinian protests were registered in Tokyo, Japan; Beirut, Lebanon; Dublin, Ireland; Amman, Jordan on October 11, 2023.
Even as India launched a probe into the Israeli embassy car blast, which injured four including a diplomat, media reports speculated the link between the blast in New Delhi and the foiled bid to attack the embassy in Georgia and that it occurred on the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah's military commander Imad Fayez Mughniyeh.
The United States' Embassy in Islamabad suspended visa and routine consular services on Friday due to "heightened security', a spokesman said.
An Israeli diplomat, who was in an embassy car that was target of suspected terror attack, suffered splinter injuries and was admitted to a private hospital on Monday evening.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the past one year, on Wednesday vowed to remain there even if accusations of sex crimes against him are dropped in Sweden.
India on Friday asked its citizens not to travel to Iran and Israel amid increasing fears that Tehran may launch an attack on Israeli soil in retaliation to a strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria 11 days ago.
A group of people had attacked the mission in Kabul.
The eight former Indian Navy personnel were on October 26 given death sentence by Qatar's Court of First Instance.
