New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee has extended greetings to the government and the people of the Swiss Confederation on the eve of their National Day. “On behalf of the government, the people…
Agartala, July 31 (IANS) The 67 years old popular agitation for railway services to Tripura finally culminated in Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday flagging off the Agartala-Delhi passenger train services on the newly laid…
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday chaired a meeting of the India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians (IDF-OI), a philanthropic organisation engaged in supplementing the country’s social development efforts….
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Indian workers in a large Saudi Arabian construction company in Jeddah were not paid their salaries for the last seven months leading to a starvation-like crisis. After the Indian consulate…
Agartala, July 31 (IANS) Six years after the finalisation of a new India-Bangladesh railway project, railway ministers of the two countries on Sunday laid the foundation stone of a Rs 968 crore vital rail link…
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) In what has come as a shocking development, over 10,000 Indian workers in Saudi Arabia are facing a “food crisis”, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday. “The number…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) In what has come as a shocking development, over 10,000 Indian workers in Saudi Arabia are facing a “food crisis”, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday. “The number…
Vijayawada, July 30 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday inked a MoU with Japan to develop a food value chain in the state. Under the MoU, Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Hundreds of Indians in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have been rendered jobless and their salaries not paid after factories were shut down. India is arranging for food packets for over…
Islamabad, July 30 (IANS) An Afghan Taliban delegation from its political office in Qatar recently visited China to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and the region, a group leader said on Saturday. The Taliban has…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday that a large number of Indians have been rendered jobless in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and Minister of State for External Affairs…
Imphal, July 30 (IANS) Two foreign nationals, possibly from the Middle East, were among three undertrial prisoners killed early on Saturday in violence inside the Sajiwa Central Jail in Imphal East district of Manipur, highly…
Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets the USA President Barack Obama in Oval Office, at White House in Washington DC, USA on June 7, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Washington, July 30 (IANS) US President Barack Obama…
Havana, July 30 (IANS) France will finance various priority development areas in Cuba through long-term preferential loans, sources said. Cuban Foreign Trade and Investment Minister Rodrigo Malmierca and French Ambassador Jean-Marie Bruno signed an agreement…
Havana, July 30 (IANS) France will finance various priority development areas in Cuba through long-term preferential loans, sources said. Cuban Foreign Trade and Investment Minister Rodrigo Malmierca and French Ambassador Jean-Marie Bruno signed an agreement…
Imphal, July 30 (IANS) Two Saudi Arabians were among three undertrial prisoners killed early on Saturday in violence inside the Sajiwa Central Jail in Imphal East district of Manipur, highly placed sources said. The union…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) There will be no bilateral meeting during Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Pakistan next month to attend the Saarc Home/Interior Ministers’ meeting, the External Affairs Ministry made it…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday chaired a meeting to discuss the way forward towards a permanent solution to the fishermen’s issue between India and Sri Lanka. Minister of…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) A six-year-old girl from Oman who developed a rare genetic disorder, characterised by distinctive malformation of the skull and facial region, has been given a new lease of life after…
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) The whereabouts of Salesian Order priest Father Thomas Uzhunnallil who was abducted in March this after a terrorist attack on an old-age home in Yemen are still not known despite…