Vikas Swarup
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Sushma Swaraj leaves for Sri Lanka
National | Feb 05, 2016, 11:09 AM ISTNew Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj left here on Friday on a two-day visit to Sri Lanka during which she will attend a meeting of the joint commission of the two South Asian neighbours."Leaving
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Activities of Hafiz Saeed matter of 'grave concern', Pak must act against him: MEA
India | Feb 04, 2016, 11:34 PM ISTIslamabad: India today termed the activities of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed as a matter of “grave concern”, saying that it was for Pakistan to rein in the banned group leader.The comments by the Ministry
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'Airlift' great entertainment, but short on facts: MEA
Bollywood | Jan 29, 2016, 09:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: Vikas Swarup, the spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday spoke about actor Akshay Kumar's last release ‘Airlift'. The movie narrates the story of Indian refugees stuck in Kuwait in the year
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Entire J&K including PoK our integral part: India
National | Jan 15, 2016, 07:08 AM ISTNew Delhi: In sharp reaction to Islamabad's reported move to make strategically located Gilgit-Baltistan a province, India on Thursday said the entire Jammu and Kashmir including Pakistan Occupied Kashmir is its integral part."We have seen
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India urges all sides in Nepal to remain closely engaged
India | Dec 17, 2015, 06:04 PM ISTNew Delhi: A day after the motorcade of Nepal President was attacked by Indian-origin Madhesis, India today said it was "very closely" monitoring the events in the Himalayan nation and urged all sides there to
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Nepal's Madhesi leaders meet Sushma Swaraj
India | Dec 06, 2015, 10:58 PM ISTNew Delhi: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday met top leaders of Nepal's restive Madhesi community, who are agitating against the country's new constitution adopted in September, and urged a speedy political solution
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Chhota Rajan's 'fake-identity' passport revoked, inquiry on
India | Nov 05, 2015, 06:18 PM ISTNew Delhi: India has revoked the passport of arrested underworld don Chhota Rajan as an investigation found that the document was procured on a fake identity by him from the Indian mission in Australia."His passport
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PM Modi strongly takes up the killing of Indian in Nepal
National | Nov 03, 2015, 10:30 AM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly took up with his Nepali counterpart KP Oli the killing of an Indian citizen in police firing during a protest in Nepal close to the international border,Condemning the
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Indian killed as Nepal police clear border point; India upset
World | Nov 02, 2015, 06:17 PM ISTKathmandu/New Delhi: An Indian youth was today killed when Nepalese police opened fire on protesters near the Indo-Nepal border, prompting a "concerned" India to ask its transporters to exercise caution and not endanger their lives,
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Pakistan must stop using terror as instrument of state policy: India
India | Oct 30, 2015, 08:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: Pakistan must stop using terrorism as an instrument of state policy, India today said reacting to former President Pervez Musharraf's comments that his country supported and trained terror groups like the LeT for
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India-Africa Forum Summit kicks off in New Delhi
Oct 26, 2015, 11:08 AM ISTNew Delhi: The 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit kicked off here on Monday with a meeting among the senior officials of the host nation and 54 countries from the African continent."A moment for the cameras. IAFS formally begins with
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India downplays US Congressional report on religious freedom
India | Oct 15, 2015, 07:53 PM ISTNew Delhi: India today downplayed a US Congressional report on International Religious Freedom 2014 which said India witnessed "religiously motivated killings, arrests, riots and coerced religious conversions"."The report is internal to the US administration. It
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India's MTCR application 'received well': Vikas Swarup
India | Oct 10, 2015, 07:52 AM ISTNew Delhi: India's application to be a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) has been received well, says the external affairs ministry."India has an application under submission since June 2015 to be a
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India concerned over anti-India sentiments in Nepal
India | Oct 08, 2015, 11:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: India on Thursday expressed concern over increasing "anti-India sentiments" in Nepal and called upon Kathmandu to "put its house in order" over protests by a section of the Himalayan nation's population over the
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Sushma Swaraj calls on Merkel, meets her German counterpart
National | Oct 05, 2015, 02:42 PM ISTNew Delhi : External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel here before delegation level talks began between the two countries.She also met German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.Ministry spokesperson Vikas
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India rejects allegations of blockading Nepal trade checkpoint
World | Oct 01, 2015, 12:08 PM ISTNew York: India has rejected as “totally false” allegations that it blockaded a key trade checkpoint on the border with Nepal amid protests over that country's new Constitution even as it emphasised that it is
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India hits back at Pakistan, calls it prime sponsor of terror
India | Oct 01, 2015, 07:02 AM ISTNew Delhi: India on Thursday hit back at Pakistan terming Kashmir as "oppressed by foreign occupation" at the UN General Assembly, saying that Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif "gets foreign occupation right, occupier wrong. We
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Modi, Sharif wave at each other but no talks
World | Sep 29, 2015, 06:44 AM ISTUnited Nations: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif waved at each other at the UN peacekeeping summit on Tuesday in a show of goodwill amid frosty bilateral relations.Assembling for the summit
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PM Modi condoles death of pilgrims in Haj stampede tragedy
National | Sep 28, 2015, 11:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condoled the death of pilgrims in last week's grisly stampede at Mina, the worst tragedy to hit the annual pilgrimage in last 25 years."In connection with the Haj
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Magic of Indian techies fingers has changed India's image: PM Modi
World | Sep 28, 2015, 09:11 AM ISTSan Jose: Prime Minister Narendra Modi saluted Indian techies for changing the image and perception of India with the magic of their fingers at the computers."Today there is a new image of India, a new