India’s Ministry of External affairs yesterday announced the end of an evacuation effort which has rescued about 5,600 people from more than 40 countries from the conflict in Yemen. To avoid a no-fly zone over parts of Yemen, India transported people via the African state of Djibouti. This was achieved using ships of the Indian […]
PHUKET: The Royal Thai Navy has issued a warning to all shipping to stay away from an area of the Andaman Sea where components of an Indian space shot are likely to fall back into the sea after launch. The exact date of the launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is not certain. […]
Pakistan released 173 inmates to Indian authorities at the Wagah border on Monday, out of which 172 were fishermen. The Pakistani Government ordered the fishermen released from two Karachi jails on Sunday. Alleged violation of the Arabian Sea maritime boundary of Karachi led the fishermen to imprisonment in the Malir and Landhi District Jail. Earlier […]
A military helicopter crashed in Jammu and Kashmir today. Two people, believed to be the pilots, are dead. Both bodies are too burned for immediate identification. The Dhruv caught fire after going down in a forest in Bandipora. The crash at around 7:43p.m. local time was during night training over Ganderbal. Search and rescue personnel […]
A newspaper in India was shut down and its editor arrested after republishing one of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad on its front page. Shirin Dalvi, who was later released on bail, is accused of violating section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, which bans malicious and deliberate acts intended […]
CHONBURI — Police in Chonburi province have arrested an Indian national who was convicted in India for a bombing that killed a top politician and seventeen others in 1995. The suspect was arrested during a police raid of a house in Banglamung district at around 7.30 pm yesterday, said deputy commander of the Chonburi police […]
Flash floods have submerged about 2,600 villages and killed 150 people so far in the northern-most Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in what is being described as the worst food the area has seen in 50 years. Heavy torrential rain in the Himalayan mountains in the past weeks caused the worst floods in 50 […]
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 – As the tensions continue to grow over the disputes in the South China Sea, External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj asked on Sunday for all nations involved to resolve this issue in a peaceful and coherent manner. Addressing the fourth East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at the ASEAN […]
