Thiruvananthapuram:The Centre will soon send two ships to strife-torn Yemen to evacuate Indians, including Keralites, stranded there.External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has told Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, that since all the airports in Yemen

New Delhi: Ending suspense, Government today decided to prorogue the current session of Rajya Sabha so that it can re-issue the controversial land ordinance even as the Opposition mounted a fresh attack on the measure.The

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said her government was committed to ensuring a governance and regulatory system that is transparent, responsive and investor-friendly as it strives to create a fresh environment for

New Delhi: Union of Minister of States for EXternal Affairs Gen V K Singh has denied media reports that he has offered to resign from Union Council of Ministers."I have not offered to resign", V

New Delhi: India and China today held the 18th round of talks on the vexed boundary issue, the first such meeting after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power last year.Special Representative on the Boundary

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj would be interacting with her counterparts from South Africa and Brazil during a meeting of the IBSA trilateral ministerial council on March 31.Sushma Swaraj, who is also travelling

Bhubaneswar: External Affairs Minister Sushama Swaraj on Friday said India was committed to maritime security, freedom of navigation, unimpeded lawful commerce and peaceful settlement of disputes in the Indian Ocean region."We have been working with

New Delhi: India today discussed with Turkey the issue of its 39 hostages in war-torn Iraq as also increasing threat of Islamic Militant outfit ISIS in the region.External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today held compressive

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took up the problems of Indian fishermen with Sri Lanka during his visit to the island-country last week, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday."The problems of fishermen

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh minister Mohd Azam Khan today demanded lifting of certain restrictions imposed on Haj pilgrims.In a letter written to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, he claimed that last year the Haj Committee of

New Delhi: No Indian worker involved in labour dispute with any Sri Lankan company is held captive in that country, government told Rajya Sabha today.External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj stated this on the basis of

New Delhi: “I am not helpless. I am a very influential External Affairs Minister.”This is how Sushma Swaraj replied to a taunt by an opposition leader in the Rajya Sabha today while she was speaking

Chennai: Slamming Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe for his remarks that Indian fishermen maybe shot if they intruded into Lankan waters, DMK today said it "amounted to a slap" on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said the NDA government's efforts to strengthen relations with Nepal were much bigger than what the previous regimes had done in the last three decades.Swaraj was speaking

New Delhi: India yesterday raised the "humanitarian" issue of Indian fishermen's rights with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe, who has stoked a controversy by his remarks that they may be shot if they intruded

Colombo: India will strongly take up with Sri Lanka the fishermen issue during delegation-level talks between the two countries, officials said today."India and Sri Lanka have been approaching this as a humanitarian matter which is

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will undertake a two-day visit to Colombo tomorrow to set the stage for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Sri Lanka, the first bilateral visit to the country

New Delhi: In a move to provide instant assistance to the Indian nationals living abroad, the government has launched an e-portal ‘Madad' where people can register their complaints just by providing their passport number.The portal,

New Delhi: Asserting that Arunachal Pradesh was India's “integral and inalienable” part, Government today said Indian leaders visit that state as they visit other parts of the country, four days after China raised a strong

New Delhi: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking a deep interest in country's foreign policy, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for the first time has presented a strategic evaluation of the world to its