During his half-hour meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid raised the issue of the US embassy here spiriting away to New York the husband and children of Sangeeta Richard, the nanny of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. The two ministers, who met on the sidelines of the Geneva […]
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and US Secretary of State John Kerry held bilateral talks Wednesday on the sidelines of the Geneva-II talks – meeting for the first time after the India-US spat over the handcuffing and strip-search of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. During their meeting in Montreux, both sides discussed the Khobragade issue and […]
India Wednesday said that it supports an all-inclusive Syrian-led process to chart out the future of the violence-ravaged country and stressed that it “stands fully prepared to play its part” in the Geneva II peace process in any manner required of it. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, addressing the UN-backed Geneva II conference in Montreux, […]
The Congress Tuesday expanded its panel of spokespersons to strengthen the party’s media reach ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Union ministers P. Chidambaram and Salman Khurshid were named senior spokespersons while minister Shashi Tharoor was appointed spokesperson. The names were cleared by both party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi. The party […]