US updates travel advisory to citizens for Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan“Reconsider travel to Pakistan due to COVID-19, terrorism and sectarian violence,” it said. It also asked its citizens not to travel to Bal...
26 Jan, 2021, 09.41 AM IST
Will facilitate request for 'permanent settlement' by Sikhs, Hindus who arrived from Afghanistan as per rules: MEAMEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava also said that apart from those who returned, the ministry was in touch with others who would like to re...
30 Jul, 2020, 09.44 PM IST
India in touch with Russia to secure engineers’ releaseMoscow, which has contacts and considerable interests in Afghanistan, may assist in the rescue amid hard negotiations going on since Sunday.
11 May, 2018, 12.44 PM IST
Hard negotiation on to secure release of Indians kidnapped by Taliban in Afghanistanndian authorities are in touch with their Afghan counterparts who, in turn, are talking to local authorities and village elders to get the ...
08 May, 2018, 07.30 AM IST
Harsh Goenka requests government help to rescue employees abducted by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan"Request @SushmaSwaraj and Ministry of External Affairs to help rescue 7 of our managers from the kidnapping in Afghanistan.#KEC," Goenka t...
06 May, 2018, 09.14 PM IST
CIA chief Mike Pompeo says hostages held in Pakistan for 5 years; Contradicts Pak ArmyMike Pompeo's remarks contradicts the Pakistan Army which had said in a statement that the hostages were captured by terrorists from Afghan...
20 Oct, 2017, 07.09 PM IST
Will spare no effort to secure Father Tom Uzhunnalil: Sushma SwarajFather Uzhunnalil, who hails from Kerala, was abducted in March by the Islamic State terror group which attacked an old-age home run by Mot...
27 Dec, 2016, 11.24 AM IST
Expedite efforts for release of kidnapped Indian: PM Narendra Modi to Ashraf GhaniModi said he had an opportunity to meet and exchange greetings with Ghani on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) s...
24 Jun, 2016, 08.13 PM IST
Abducted Indian woman remains untraceable in KabulJudith D'Souza, working for Aga Khan Foundation as senior technical adviser, was kidnapped along with two other persons outside her office ...
12 Jun, 2016, 04.37 AM IST
Verifying Pakistan Taliban hostage video says ChinaAcquaintances of Hong told the daily that they are also waiting for the official confirmation on the identity of the man in the video.
26 May, 2015, 08.05 PM IST
National Security Adviser AK Doval fails to get any lead in 39 Indians kidnapped in IraqThere is no clarity yet on the fate of the group of Indian workers who were kidnapped last June, notwithstanding NSA's discussions with the...
26 Feb, 2015, 11.48 AM IST
US in touch with India and Afghanistan on the abduction of aid workerUS is in touch with both Indian and Afghan authorities on the abduction of an Indian aid worker from Herat in Afghanistan by unidentified g...
04 Jun, 2014, 11.03 AM IST
Taliban abduct Indian cook, demand Rs 1 crore ransomThe unidentified terrorists are demanding a ransom of Rs 1 crore.
25 Dec, 2008, 05.01 AM IST
- 27 days after abduction, Indian freed in Herat
The Indian national who was abducted in Afghanistan almost a month ago was released and one of the abductors arrested after Afghan security...
19 May, 2008, 02.28 AM IST
- Kidnapped Indian, Nepalese freed in Afghanistan
Afghan security forces freed an Indian and a Nepalese national kidnapped a month ago in the western province of Herat, a provincial intelli...
18 May, 2008, 09.22 AM IST
- Indian worker in Afghanistan kidnapped
In yet another instance of the increasing vulnerability of Indians working in Afghanistan, an Indian working for a private company was kidn...
23 Apr, 2008, 06.01 AM IST
- Two men, including an Indian, feared abducted in Afghanistan
Two foreign nationals were believed to be kidnapped in western Afghanistan, police said on Tuesday, as the Indian government confirmed that...
22 Apr, 2008, 02.10 PM IST