[Islamabad,Delhi]Pak’s Seat Remains Vacant During Swaraj’s Address In OIC
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday announced that he will not attend a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) being hosted by the United Arab Emirates over the grouping’s failure to rescind the invitation to his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj.
Swaraj has been invited to the OIC meeting as a guest of honour despite strong protest from Pakistan. Qureshi informed Parliament that he would not be attending the conference in the UAE on March 1-2.
Mentioning that the “UAE has always helped Pakistan in difficult times”, Qureshi noted with regret that despite Pakistan’s protest, the OIC’s invitation to Swaraj was not rescinded.
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Pak’s Seat Remains Vacant During Swaraj’s Address In OIC
Netanyahu Advises To Make Strong Friends For Own Survival
[New Delhi]Netanyahu Advises To Make Strong Friends For Own Survival He said “The weak don’t survive, the strong survive…you make alliance with the strong
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inaugurated the third edition of the geo-political conference, ‘Raisina Dialogue’, and laid stress on the need to develop economic, military and political power to emerge as a strong nation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the audience
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj delivered vote of thanks
Delivering his inaugural address, the Israeli premier appreciated the efforts being made by the Narendra Modi government to cut bureaucratic red tape and improve ease of doing business.
Netanyahu, on a six-day visit to India, said a government can both facilitate and block economic growth. Growth is possible when there is a free market which facilitates innovation by business entities
Referring to economic growth, he said, “The weak don’t survive, the strong survive…you make alliance with the strong.”
He said that to defend a nation,
one needs a strong military which in turn
requires a lot of money.
The money, he said, comes from a strong economy.
Netanyahu stressed that alliance between democracies was important.
The event, jointly organised by the Ministry of External Affairs and Observer Research Foundation (ORF), is a multilateral conference aimed at addressing challenging issues globally.
The theme of the dialogue this year is ‘Managing Disruptive Transitions: Ideas, Institutions and Idioms’
EAM Swaraj Discusses Dokalam With Chinese Counterpart Wang Yi
[New Delhi] EAM Swaraj Discusses Dokalam With Chinese Counterpart Wang Yi
This is the first high-level visit from China after the Dokalam standoff this summer.
External Affairs Minister Smt Sushma Swaraj today held talks with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on key bilateral issues.
According to sources, all issues of mutual interest were discussed between the two leaders.
Wang is here to attend the Russia-India-China trilateral,
The foreign ministers of Russia, India and China (RIC) are here to deliberate on a range of pressing regional and global issues, including ways to tackle the threat of terrorism and extremism, at the key meeting of the grouping
India Strongly Favors Natural Parents For Norway child
[New Delhi] India Strongly Favors Natural Parents For Norway child
India today made it clear that it wants the five-and-a-half year boy united with his natural parents.
Taking a hard stance, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said she refuses to accept that foster parents can take better care of the child than natural parents.Minister ,After Kidney Transplant ,Is Medically Advised Rest
In a series of tweets, Swaraj said, “Our Ambassador in Norway is meeting the Norwegian authorities today regarding Aryan. I refuse to accept that foster parents can take better care of the child than the natural parents.
“The foster parents are totally ignorant of the Indian culture and our food habits. We want restoration of Aryan to his natural parents.”
Indian national Gurvinderjit Kaur and her husband, who is a Norwegian national, have alleged that authorities in that country have taken away their son, also a Norwegian national, on a frivolous complaint of abuse.
Kaur had also written to the Ministry seeking help in getting back her son, who has been taken away by the Norway Child Welfare Services.
This is the third case since 2011 when children have been taken away from their Indian-origin parents by the authorities in Norway on the grounds of abuse.
In 2011, a three-year-old and a one-year-old were separated from their parents, prompting the then UPA government to take up the issue with Norway.
The Norwegian court later allowed the children to be reunited with their parents.
In December 2012, an Indian couple was jailed on charges of ill treatment of their children, 7 and 2 years. Later, they were sent to their grandparents in Hyderabad
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PM Of India Condoles Loss of Lives in Munich Mall Attack,No Indian Casualty
[NewDelhi,Munich]PM Of India Condoles the Loss of Lives in the Munich Attack,No Indian Casualty
The Prime Minister, Of India Narendra Modi has condoled the loss of lives in the Munich attack.
Modi Tweeted
“We are appalled by the horrific incident in Munich.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the deceased and those injured”,
No Indian casualty
There has been no Indian casualty reported in the Germany attack in which a gunman killed nine people at a busy Munich mall.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted”
I have spoken to Ambassador Gurjit Singh our Ambassador in Germany. He has informed me that there is no Indian casualty in the Munich attack,” .
A teenage German-Iranian gunman killed nine people in a shooting rampage yesterday at a busy Munich mall and then committed suicide.
Armed with a handgun, the attacker opened fire at a McDonald’s restaurant early last evening and continued in the street before entering the Olympia mall, killing nine people and wounding 16 in his rampage.
India’s Consulate in Munich had advised Indian nationals in Munich to avoid going outside yesterday after the shooting incident.
It had also set up a helpline on which safety of Indian nationals could be informed.
Sushma Swaraj will Observe”Karwa Chauth”fast,Even On Official Duties
[New Delhi]Sushma Swaraj will Observe “Karwa Chauth”fast,Even On Official Duties.She Is Busy In Africa Summit
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Is Known for observing religious rituals meticulously,
Today She said that she will observe the ‘Karwa Chauth’ fast on October 30, even while attending to official duties.
As India hosts the Africa Summit, she will be present in all the official functions and meetings on October 30 though she will observe fast to mark ‘Karwa Chauth’, a pre-Diwali custom followed by married women for the well being of their husbands.
“I must tell you, after become minister one forgets Holi, Diwali, Karwa Chauth. You will be surprised to know that on Shivratri I was in Oman and observed Durga Ashtami in Moscow.
“On Karwa Chauth, which is on October 30, I will observe fast but will hold meetings (with the visiting foreign ministers from African nations),” she said at the India-Africa Business Forum
The minister said she held bilateral meetings with foreign ministers of seven African countries yesterday and would be meeting 12 today and others on October 30.
AAP Also Provokes PM To Break Silence & Sack MEA Over Lalit K Modi Episode
[New Delhi]AAP Also Provokes Narendra Modi To Break Silence And Sack MEA Over Lalit K Modi Episode
Aam Aadmi Party asked to the Prime Minister that is there any minister in PM Modi’s Union Cabinet whose immediate relative(spouse or children) who was offered a job or directorship in a company by Shri Lalit Modi?
Continuing to mount pressure, the AAP today demanded immediate sacking of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the wake of fresh allegations that controversial former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi offered directorship in a company to her husband Swaraj Kaushal.
Batting for a legislation on conflict of interest, the party also demanded that ministers in the Union government and their immediate family members should also declare their pecuniary interests.
“Now it has come to light that Lalit Modi offered directorship to Swaraj Kaushal. He is the beneficiary of the legal fees from Modi. There should be an independent probe and the External Affairs Minister should be immediately sacked.
“The Center should ask its ministers to make their pecuniary interests public and there should be a strong conflict of interest law in the country,” party spokesperson Raghav Chadha said.
The party also attacked the BJP for the poor functioning of Municipal Corporations of Delhi, which are being controlled by the Centre, following the remarks in the CAG report, which was tabled in the Delhi Legislative Assembly yesterday.
“Around Rs 35 crore were given to the South Delhi Municipal Corporation for the treatment of dengue and malaria.
But only Rs 18 crore were spent. Who will take the responsibility for the people who have died and suffered,” AAP’s Delhi unit secretary Dilip Pandey said.
He said that around Rs 13 crore were spent on managing the website of the corporation. “We all know in today’s age a website can be operated in less than Rs 1000 and the corporation spent Rs 13 crore for this purpose. With that amount, websites of the Municipal corporation of the whole world could be managed,”
FM Hooked Modigate And Called Congress’s All Allegations On MEA Baseless
[New Delhi]FM Hooked Modigate And Called Congress’s All Allegations On MEA Baseless
Arun Jaitley Called Congress’s All Allegations baseless.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today sought to do some damage control by coming out in defence of Sushma Swaraj over her help to scam-tainted Lalit Modi while Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued to be targeted in the ‘Modigate’ by Congress.
Two days after the raging controversy broke out triggering a political storm for the Modi government, Jaitley, Swaraj, who holds the External Affairs portfolio, and Home Minister Rajnath Singh met in the Home Ministry and discussed the entire issue for an hour before Singh and Jaitley held a press conference.
“All allegations levelled are baseless. Her (Swaraj) statement and that of the party President (show) that whatever she did was with good intentions.
“She acted bona fide. The entire government and the party are one on the issue. There should be no doubt on this,” Jaitley said with Singh by his side.
Jaitley’s defence of his cabinet colleague comes two days after party President Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh had asserted that Swaraj had acted on humanitarian considerations in the matter of helping former IPL boss Lalit Modi get travel documents from Britain.
Modi, former IPL boss, has taken refuge in London for over five years after the Enforcement Directorate levelled money laundering and other charges against him involving an amount of Rs 1,700 crore and wants him for investigations in India in the 2009 IPL scam.
Speculation has been rife over the “silence” of Jaitley after the controversy broke out on Sunday over Swaraj’s help to Lalit Modi.
There have been reports that the Finance Ministry and the External Affairs Ministry are involved in a blame game over who should appeal against the Delhi High Court order quashing the revocation of Lalit Modi’s passport in August last year.
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The Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information & Broadcasting, Shri Arun Jaitley, Defending Sushma swaraj On Modi Gate
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