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60,000 foreign nationals from 72 countries evacuated from India amid lockdown: MEA

The MEA spokesperson said evacuating Indians stranded abroad is also under discussion & that all Indian missions are extending assistance to diaspora community.

India rejects USCIRF report on religious freedom, minorities, calls it ‘biased and tendentious’

The USCIRF recommended that India and 14 other nations, where religious minorities are under increasing assault, be designated as "countries of particular concern".

Govt says India working with foreign labs to develop remdesivir, the new Covid-19 hope

At a media briefing Thursday, the MEA said hydroxychloroquine from India continued to be in high demand. 

Ensure 295 Indian students stranded in Russia are taken care of, Digvijaya Singh urges MEA

In a letter to the Union minister on Friday, Singh said he knew the parents of the students and had been asked by them to take up their case.

Next batch of Indians stranded in COVID-19-hit Italy to be evacuated over weekend, says MEA

Earlier, a batch of 218 Indians, comprising mostly students, had arrived in India from Milan on 15 March. They were later taken to an ITBP quarantine facility in Delhi.

PM Narendra Modi’s foreign visits cost Rs 446.52 crore over last 5 years: MEA

Answering a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said the expenditure includes the cost of chartered flights.

India signs deals with Afghanistan for road projects in Bamyan, Mazar-e-Sharif

Finance Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla attends signing of the agreements in Kabul for the road projects Afghanistan will undertake with India's assistance.

Indian Fossil Service

The foreign service may have some of the finest minds and cushiest jobs but as an institution, it has failed at making a mark globally.

Budget allocates Rs 100 crore for Chabahar Port project in Iran

The port complex on Iran's coast along Gulf of Oman will provide an alternative trade route between India & Afghanistan.

MEA says govt preparing to evacuate Indians from China’s Hubei hit by coronavirus

The external affairs ministry said the Indian Embassy in Beijing is working out the logistics and has been in touch with Chinese authorities on the matter.

On Camera

No insult to Ayurveda. AIIMS an attempt to bring good standards of medical education—Amrit Kaur

On 18 February 1956, 'Rajkumari' Amrit Kaur, India's first health minister, moved the Bill in Lok Sabha for the establishment of AIIMS in Delhi. She wanted it to have the powers and functions of a university because it will 'probably make revolutionary changes in curriculum as well as in modes of teaching'.

Cash-strapped Karnataka hikes fuel tax by Rs 3/l, could earn Rs 2,500-3,000 cr more per yr

Move to bring down differences in commodity prices with neighbouring states, says government. Oppn, dealers blame it on welfare, Congress's guarantees.

With an eye on China, IAF expands taxi track at Leh airport, new shelters being built

Expanded taxi track is smaller than those meant for civilian operations, but is long enough for fighters & military transport aircraft to operate.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.