Former envoy-turned BJP leader Taranjeet Singh Sandhu granted CRPF's 'Y+ escort' security cover across IndiaThe Central government has granted Y+ security cover to former Indian Ambassador to the US and BJP leader Taranjeet Singh Sandhu across Ind...
10 Apr, 2024, 12.36 PM IST
K P S Menon, independent India's first foreign secretary, passes awayMenon had served as the Foreign Secretary of India from 1987 to 1989.
30 Sep, 2019, 04.12 PM IST
Fresh Indo-Pak diplomatic spat erupts over domestic helpWhat provoked this action by Pakistani authorities is not known but it was reminiscent of the incidents of harassment and intimidation of d...
30 Jun, 2018, 10.58 AM IST
Elite Pakistan club snubs Indian envoy amid rising hostilitiesWhile membership for other Indian diplomats, too, has been delayed in the recent past, this is the first time that the Islamabad Club has s...
02 Mar, 2018, 04.15 PM IST
Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit to retire earlyBasit, who was set to retire from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in April 2018, had "submitted an application to Prime Minister Sharif for...
25 Jul, 2017, 08.33 PM IST
Alexander M Kadakin: An Indophile who mastered Hindi and loved BollywoodKadakin was born in Chisnau in then USSR in 1949. He graduated with honours from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1...
27 Jan, 2017, 12.50 AM IST
Government must re-look policy for appointing domestic help of diplomats posted abroadWhile the days of relaxed and long evenings may be getting overtaken by the time constraints of decision makers the instruments of diplomac...
01 Jul, 2015, 05.55 PM IST
MEA mulls stricter vigilance of erring officers posted in Indian diplomatic missions abroadThe MEA is particularly active on complaints or allegations received from the members of Indian community and expats in any particular coun...
29 Jun, 2015, 08.02 PM IST
PM Modi asks Indian diplomats to 'shed old mindsets'Narendra Modi asked Indian diplomats to "shed old mindsets" and help country position itself in leading role, rather than just balancing fo...
08 Feb, 2015, 04.23 AM IST
Devyani Khobragade episode impact: Junior diplomats in US can’t hire maids from IndiaKhobragade, former Indian deputy consul in the US, was arrested and strip-searched in the US last December on allegations of visa fraud
29 Oct, 2014, 02.43 AM IST
Pakistan appoints Abdul Basit as envoy to IndiaBasit joined the Foreign Service in 1982 and has held various assignments in Pakistani missions and at the Foreign Office.
17 Feb, 2014, 10.04 PM IST
MEA withdraws duty-free liquor facility to US envoys to India soon after Khobragade rowThe Ministry of External Affairs withdrew the facility of duty-free liquor to American diplomats posted in India soon after Khobragade inci...
03 Jan, 2014, 06.04 AM IST
Devyani Khobragade case: Ministry of External Affairs fixes home affairs, prepares a list of maidsThere are currently 14 India hired domestic helps working with Indian diplomats in the US and another 35-40 in Western Europe.
25 Dec, 2013, 04.57 AM IST
Devyani Khobragade case let government discover its spineNew Delhi has cracked down spectacularly on all US embassies and consulates in India after the arrest, stripsearch and imprisonment of a ju...
19 Dec, 2013, 05.59 AM IST
- Saudi diplomat shot dead in Pak; Taliban claims responsibility
Four motorcycle-borne Taliban militants today shot and killed a diplomat of Saudi Arabia, a staunch US ally, claiming it was to avenge the ...
16 May, 2011, 07.17 PM IST
- US court orders India to cough up $42.4 mn tax
A US court has ordered India to pay a real estate tax of $42.4 million after it rejected New Delhi’s argument that a 26-storey building occ...
20 Mar, 2008, 05.02 AM IST
- US Court orders India to pay $42.4 mn tax
US court has ordered India to pay a real estate tax of $42.4 million after it rejected New Delhi's argument that building occupied by its d...
19 Mar, 2008, 10.41 AM IST