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New Delhi, April 10 Seasoned diplomat Pranay Verma, who is currently serving as India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh, was appointed as New Delhi's next ambassador to Belgium and the European Union (EU) on Friday.His appointment to Brussels came weeks after India and the EU finalized an...

New Delhi, April 8 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will embark on a four-day visit to Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral ties.In the first leg of his trip, Jaishankar will travel to Mauritius to attend the 9th Indian Ocean...

New Delhi, April 6 Over 1,700 Indian nationals have left Iran through land border crossings in Armenia and Azerbaijan since the start of the West Asia conflict over a month ago, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Monday."Our embassy in Tehran has so far facilitated the movement of...

New Delhi, March 26 Seasoned diplomat Periasamy Kumaran was appointed as India's new High Commissioner to the United Kingdom on Thursday.Kumaran, a 1992-batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), is currently serving as Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).The...

New Delhi, March 20 External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar met Riaz Hamidullah, the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India, in New Delhi on Friday, with discussions focused on strengthening bilateral ties.In a post on X, EAM Jaishankar stated, "Met with High Commissioner Riaz...

New Delhi, March 19 As the conflict in West Asia widened with global ramifications, India on Thursday said the situation has been a "testing time", not just for the country, but the entire global community.At an inter-ministerial briefing here on the West Asia situation, MEA Spokesperson...

New Delhi, March 16 India said on Monday that it had not engaged in bilateral talks with the US to ensure the safe transit of merchant vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.The remarks by the Ministry of External Affairs came against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump calling on several...

March 13, New Delhi – India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) held its weekly media briefing in New Delhi, providing updates on foreign policy developments and the ongoing conflict in West Asia.In a briefing to the media, official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated that the Indian...

London, March 8 – Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh attended the Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting Ministerial Retreat in London on Sunday and called for a reformed, future-ready Commonwealth that delivers tangible benefits for its members.In a post on X...

New Delhi, March 7 The NHRC said on Saturday that its intervention in a case involving six Indian workers who were allegedly "tortured while in captivity" by their employer in Thailand over the past several months has resulted in their rescue.The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had...

March 5, New Delhi: Barry Faure, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora of Seychelles, has arrived in New Delhi to attend the Raisina Dialogue 2026.India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated that the two countries share a strong and multifaceted partnership.The ministry added that...

Bengaluru, March 3 The Karnataka government said on Tuesday that 18 of the 283 people from Karnataka stranded in conflict-affected West Asian countries returned home on Tuesday morning.Details of all those people from the state stranded in the Gulf region have been forwarded to the Ministry of...

Pune, February 23 The 7th edition of the Asia Economic Dialogue (AED), jointly organized by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Pune International Centre (PIC), will be held here from February 26 to 28.The three-day conference, on the theme 'Geoeconomics Beyond Globalization: Tariffs...

New Delhi, February 18 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Kazakh counterpart, Olzhas Bektenov, reviewed bilateral cooperation in various fields, including politics, trade, defense and security, connectivity, energy, emerging technologies, and people-to-people relations, on Wednesday.During...