Sushma Swaraj arrives in Sri Lanka, meets PM Ranil Wickremesinghe
Feb 05, 2016, at 08:45 pm
Colombo, Feb 5 (IBNS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday arrived in Sri Lankan city Colombo.
Mob attack on girl: Tanzania envoy heads to Bangalore
Feb 05, 2016, at 05:57 pm
Bangalore, Feb 5 (IBNS) A delegation team headed by Tanzanian High Commissioner John Kijazi is heading for Bangalore to probe the attack on a Tanzanian student by a mob on Sunday, according to reports.
Asked Karnataka CM for report on Tanzanian girl incident: Sushma Swaraj â€
Feb 04, 2016, at 04:17 pm
New Delhi/Bangalore, Feb 4 (IBNS):After the news broke of a young Tanzanian girl's ordeal in tech city Bangalore where she was stripped and beaten up on a road on Sunday, India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said it was a shameful incident and she has asked the chief minister of Karnataka to send her an immediate report.
ST/SC panel chief Punia certifies Vemula as a dalit
Feb 01, 2016, at 05:13 pm
Lucknow, Feb 1 (IBNS) Contrary to claims made by India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, ST/SC commission chairman PL Punia said on Sunday that Rohit Vemula, the scholar who hanged himself after being discarded by the University of Hyderabad, was indeed a Dalit (backward caste).
Rohith Vemula was not a Dalit : Sushma Swaraj
Jan 31, 2016, at 05:47 pm
Mumbai, Jan 31 (IBNS) Hours after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi held the NDA government responsible for Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide, External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj claimed that the scholar was not a Dalit.
We must delink religion from terror: Swaraj
Jan 25, 2016, at 05:13 am
Manama, Jan 24 (IBNS): Attending the ministerial-level meeting of the India-Arab Partnership Conference, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday said terrorism should be delinked from religion.
India, Bahrain sign agreement over swapping prisoners
Jan 24, 2016, at 05:29 am
Manama, Jan 23 (IBNS): India and Bahrain on Saturday signed an agreement to exchange citizens lodged in the prisons of both the nations.
Our entrepreneurs should build start-ups together: Sushma Swaraj tells in Israel
Jan 19, 2016, at 02:07 pm
Jerusalem, Jan 19 (IBNS): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said entrepreneurs of India and Israel should build start-ups together.
Sushma Swaraj meets Palestine's Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki
Jan 17, 2016, at 08:52 pm
Ramallah, Jan 17 (IBNS): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday met her Palestinian counterpart Riyad Maliki.
Sushma Swaraj meets Syrian Deputy Prime Minister
Jan 12, 2016, at 08:52 pm
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IBNS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday met Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Walid Al Moualem.
Pathankot Air Base attack: Sushma Swaraj meets ex-envoys, former foreign secs
Jan 04, 2016, at 01:32 am
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IBNS) In the wake of militant attack in the Pathankot Air Base, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday met former foreign secretaries and ex-envoys to Pakistan here, media reports said.
Gogoi decries Centre's inconsistent attitude towards State's development
Dec 29, 2015, at 01:48 am
Guwahati, Dec 28 (IBNS): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi decried the inconsistent and indifferent role of the Centre towards development of the North East and said that the dispensation at the Centre needs to work corresponding to its high rhetoric for the development of Assam and North East.
Winter Session: Arun Jaitley slams Congress over repeated disruptions
Dec 24, 2015, at 08:44 pm
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IBNS): Hitting out at the Congress over the disruptions in the Parliament during the recently concluded Winter Session, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the party should seriously explore that its disproportionate and irrational approach in dealing with the Parliament is hurting institutions.
JuD chief Hafeez Saeed dares India to prove his Mumbai attack link
Dec 14, 2015, at 05:12 pm
New Delhi/Islamabad, Dec 14 (IBNS) Jama't ud Da'wah chief and an alleged leader of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack Hafeez Saeed has dared India to prove his linkage with the terror attack.
Government to make a statement on India-Pakistan ties in Parliament next week
Dec 12, 2015, at 09:44 pm
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IBNS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will make a Statement on her recent visit to Islamabad and developments relating to ties between India and Pakistan in both the Houses of Parliament during the next week of Winter session of Parliament.
Pakistan media says PM Modi will visit the country next year
Dec 09, 2015, at 10:54 pm
Islamabad, Dec 9 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Pakistan next year, a Pakistan media report quoting External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in Islamabad said on Wednesday, even though Indian media present there said there has been no such official statement by Swaraj.
PM Modi to visit Pakistan next year: Sushma Swaraj in Islamabad
Dec 09, 2015, at 10:27 pm
Islamabad, Dec 9 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Pakistan next year, said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in Islamabad on Wednesday, according to media reports in Pakistan.
Varanasi acid attack: Accused arrested
Nov 15, 2015, at 03:29 am
New Delhi, Nov 14 (IBNS): The accused,who attacked a Russian woman wAcith acid, has been arrested, officials said on Saturday.
Sushma Swaraj to chair the ninth edition of the Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
Nov 13, 2015, at 01:56 am
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IBNS) Union Minister for External Affairs & Overseas Indian Affairs Sushma Swaraj will chair the ninth edition of the Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (RPBD) to be held in Los Angeles, California, USA on Nov 14-15.
Geeta calls on President Pranab Mukherjee
Oct 27, 2015, at 10:19 pm
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IBNS): Geeta, the young speech and hearing impaired woman who returned to India after being stranded in Pakistan for over a decade, called on President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday along with officials of Edhi Foundation in Pakistan.
Geeta returns to India from Pak after over a decade, doesn't recognise her "family"
Oct 26, 2015, at 10:03 pm
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IBNS): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said Geeta, who returned to India after been stuck in Pakistan for over a decade, could not recognise her "family" from Bihar on Monday, that claimed she was their lost daughter.
Geeta returns to India from Pak after 15 yrs, Sushma Swaraj welcomes her
Oct 26, 2015, at 07:27 pm
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IBNS) In an emotional and historic homecoming, speech and hearing impaired Geeta, who got stuck up in Pakistan for some 15 years, returned to India on Monday.
Indian sailors jailed in Iran released
Oct 14, 2015, at 02:55 pm
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IBNS): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said that nine Indian sailors who were in jail in Iran has been released.
Chopping off of hand of an Indian woman in Saudi Arabia is brutal: Sushma Swaraj
Oct 09, 2015, at 03:18 pm
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IBNS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday called the alleged chopping off of hand of an Indian woman by her employer in Saudi Arabia as 'brutal'.
PM Modi congratulates Sushma Swaraj for UN speech on terrorism
Oct 02, 2015, at 05:10 pm
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IBNS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulate External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for her r "rightly" emphasizing at the UN General Assembly on the need to end all forms of terror.
Narendra Modi congratulates Sushma Swaraj over her UN speech
Oct 02, 2015, at 06:52 am
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IBNS): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appreciated External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's speech at the UNGA and said she has wonderfully highlighted India's contribution to UN.
Stop terrorism and then begin talks: Sushma Swaraj tells Pakistan in UNGA
Oct 02, 2015, at 06:44 am
New York, Oct 1 (IBNS): Giving a reply to Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj while addressing at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday asked the neighbouring nation to give up terrorism before holding peace talks.
35 Indians killed in Mecca stampede
Sep 28, 2015, at 01:53 am
New Delhi, Sept 27 (IBNS): The number of Indian pilgrims killed in the stampede incident outside the holy city of Mecca has reached 35, officials said on Sunday.
Mecca stampede: 29 Indians among 700 killed
Sep 27, 2015, at 07:33 pm
New Delhi, Sept 27 (IBNS): The death toll of Indian pilgrims in the stampede incident outside the holy city of Mecca has touched 29, an Indian government statement said.
Fourteen Indians among the 717 Haj pilgrims killed in Mecca stampede : Sushma Swaraj
Sep 25, 2015, at 04:40 pm
New Delhi/Mina, Saudi Arabia, Sept 25 (IBNS) Fourteen Indians are among the 717 Haj pilgrims who have been killed in Thursday's stampede at Mina near the holy city of Mecca, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Friday.