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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
TopicForeign envoys

Topic: foreign envoys

Ex-Canadian diplomat in China jail for 576 days amid Huawei stand-off, wife fights for release

Michael Kovrig is an apparent pawn in a geopolitical battle over Huawei and the fate of its CFO Meng Wanzhou, who is currently in Canada's custody.

US envoys can’t return to their posts yet due to disputes over testing, quarantining them

A State Department spokesperson said the US is taking precautions to make sure diplomats and their families are healthy when they leave the US.

As Gulf calls for an ‘India without Islamophobia,’ Jaishankar works the phones

Reactions from UAE royal princess, Kuwait government and others have made Delhi sit up and take note of anti-Muslim hate speech by Indian nationals.

‘Restrictions should be lifted’ — Foreign envoys after two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir

This comes on a day EU urged India to 'swiftly' lift the restrictions in J&K. The 25 envoys also met NSA Ajit Doval in Delhi.

‘Kashmir is fine’: New group of foreign envoys visit J&K, tweet sparks controversy

A group of 25 envoys representing more than 20 countries are on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir. However, tweets by an Afghan envoy caused a stir.

Hope India addresses concerns on CAA, says outgoing British envoy Dominic Asquith

Outgoing British High Commissioner to India Dominic Asquith also says UK is keen to visit Kashmir valley if Indian govt officially invites it.

Modi govt’s trip for envoys to J&K exposes rift between home and external affairs ministries

If Modi government intended the envoys to see the situation in Kashmir ‘first-hand’, it needed to do more than letting the diplomats spend 3-4 hours there.

On Camera

Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.