Bangalore, April 6, 2012 Countering China’s objections on its oil exploration projects in the South China Sea, India on Friday said the region must be freed from any “national interference”. “India maintains that South China Sea is the property of the world. I think those trade-ways must be free from any national interference,” External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna told reporters while replying to a question. Notwithstanding the Chinese warning, Mr. Krishna said ...
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Bangalore, April 6, 2012 External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Friday said India has repeatedly given Pakistan every detail of LeT leader Hafiz Saeed’s involvement in the Mumbai terror attack but Islamabad has chosen not to conduct an investigation. The dossier that Home Minister P. Chidambaram has given to Islamabad has every detail of Saeed’s involvement in the terrorist attack on Mumbai, he told reporters. Mr. Krishna was asked about Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza ...
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New Delhi, February 14, 2012 The Income Tax department has submitted to the CBDT a “full probe report” of investments and assets of ex-Chief Justice of India and NHRC chief K G Balakrishnan and his family members. The probe report has been compiled by the I-T investigations wing in Kochi in coordination with the Mumbai probe unit of the department. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is at present going through the report. “The full probe report with regard ...
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Bangalore, February 7, 2012 The ISRO row showed no signs of abating as former chief of the organisation G. Madhavan Nair on Tuesday hit back at his successor K. Radhakrishnan dubbing as “another lie” the latter’s claim that an inquiry was conducted into charges and lapses relating to the Antrix-Devas deal. Mr. Radhakrishnan, Secretary in the Department of Space (DoS), had said on Monday that a probe was held, noting the “detailed” letter of the Pratyush ...
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Colombo, January 17, 2012 A political settlement to Tamils in Sri Lanka and a solution that answers the aspirations of the Tamil community…is the most important issue to be resolved, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna told Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, here on Tuesday. During the 90-minute breakfast meeting between the two leaders at Temple Trees, the official residence of the Sri Lankan President, a wide range of issues were discussed but the focus ...
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KOCHI, January 17, 2012 After traversing the seas for 44 years — first as the Royal Navy's HMS Andromeda from 1968 to November 1994 and in its current avatar as one of Indian Navy's First Training Squadron Ships, INS Krishna, from August 1995 — is set to sing its swan song. On Tuesday, it will embark on its last voyage, setting course for Mumbai from the Southern Naval Command's south jetty for a minor refit before being decommissioned later this year. ...
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London, December 31, 2011 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the Indian-American scientist whose pioneering work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has been honoured with a Knighthood by the royal establishment here in a rare recognition of achievements by foreigners based in Britain. 58-year-old Ramakrishnan, known to most as Venky, is based at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He has been conferred Knighthood “for services ...
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New Delhi, June 9, 2011 (PTI) The National Human Rights Commission has made public skeletal details of assets owned by its Chairman K.G. Balakrishnan showing there was no change in the moveable and immovable properties owned by him. According to details of his assets given by the NHRC in response to an RTI application, Justice Balakrishnan owns four properties in his name and one in his wife Nirmala Balakrishnan’s name. One property is a family-owned. These assets have remained ...
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Singapore, May 7, 2011 External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Friday disfavoured the idea of not engaging Pakistan in talks because of Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts at the time he was killed by U.S. forces. Speaking to The Hindu prior to his departure from here after a visit to Malaysia and Singapore, Mr. Krishna said: “Disengaging Pakistan, because of bin Laden’s episode in Pakistan, certainly would not be a very wise move.” Emphasising that “the world will be much ...
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Kuala Lumpur, May 3, 2011 Pakistan, which had denied knowledge of Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts, had a lot to explain in the aftermath of the killing of the dreaded terrorist on its soil, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. “I think Pakistan has a lot to explain on that score,” visiting External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna told reporters. His comments came when he was asked to react to constant Pakistani claims that it was not aware of the ...
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Ludhiana, April 21 (Anmol Saggu) Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology signed a MoU with Krishna Foods and Seed Processors (KFSP), Gurdaspur, for transferring the package of technologies. The transferred technologies included design/ drawing for fabrication of CIPHET tomato grader, porous bricks, modified atmospheric packaging of different vegetables, low cost technique for enhancing shelf life of tomato, shrink wrap packaging of fruits and ...
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New Delhi, April 21, 2011 The Supreme Court today cancelled the bails granted to Price Waterhouse partner Subramani Gopalakrishnan and Satyam’s internal auditor V S Prabhakar Gupta, directing them to surrender by April 30. A bench comprising Justice P Sathasivam and Justice B S Chauhan cancelled their bail and directed them to surrender within this period, failing which the central investigative agency will take steps to arrest them. The apex court, which had on April 18 reserved ...
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March 15, 2011 Andhra Pradesh government will file an appeal either in the Supreme Court or before the Krishna River Water Disputes Tribunal on March 29 against the Tribunal’s award over allocation of Krishna water to the State. The government will convene an all-party meeting here on March 22 to discuss the State’s strategy to contest the Justice Brijesh Kumar Tribunal’s award that is totally detrimental to AP’s interests. The government is engaging senior Supreme Court ...
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Washington, February 14, 2011 External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna gave his perspective on the recent high-level Indo-Pak talks to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and also discussed how India’s deep democratic tradition and expertise could be helpful in bringing democracy to Egypt. In a telephonic conversation, “the External Minister gave his perspective on the recent high-level dialogue with Pakistan,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told PTI. Following the recent ...
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New Delhi, February 5 (PTI) Mumbai attack martyr Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan’s uncle, who attempted self immolation to protest the government’s alleged apathy in treating victims of the 26/11 strike, succumbed to injuries, police said on Saturday. 56-year-old K. Mohanan, who had suffered 98 per cent burn injuries, died at 11:55 pm on Friday night at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital here. While undergoing treatment, he had also suffered a heart attack. Mohanan, a native of Kozhikode ...
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New Delhi, February 01, 2011 A draft bill, which will soon be introduced in the cabinet, says consensual sex between children aged 16 to 18 is not a criminal offence, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said on Tuesday. Tirath refuted a media report which stated that the draft Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, 2010, sought to bring down to 12 the age of consensual, non penetrative sex. "I want to make it clear that the women and child development ministry's ...
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NEW DELHI: Admitting that Iran's nuclear programme is an issue between the two countries, foreign minister S M Krishna on Thursday said that India is trying to "assuage" whatever concerns Tehran has over the matter. Talking exclusively to TOI, Krishna said that barring this one issue India continues to enjoy outstanding ties with Iran. India has voted twice in favour of IAEA resolutions censuring Iran for its nuclear programme but in terms of trade and other areas, ties between the two ...
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External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Saturday said no Indian embassy employee in Kabul wanted to come back fearing terror attacks but government would consider transfer requests made on family grounds. Responding to a query on reports that some embassy staff wanted to return to India, Krishna recalled his visit to Afghanistan three-four months ago following two attacks on Indian embassy and said he had then addressed the employees and sought to know if any of them wanted to come ...
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