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"PM Modi personally supervised developments...working for return of eighth
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi constantly personally supervised the developments in the release of seven Indian Navy veterans from Qatar, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said on Monday.
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MOS MEA, Meenakshi Lekhi: Indian ex-navy veterans reunited with families t
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
While speaking to ANI, Minister of State for MOS, MEA Meenakashi Lekhi says, "The intervention of the Prime Minister helped. I am grateful & thankful to the Emir of Qatar that this has been made possible. The release of Indians & them joining their families after a substantive period
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"PM Modi is Pradhan Rakshak": Jyotiraditya Scindia lauds PM after Qatar fr
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
In a major diplomatic triumph for India, eight veterans of the Indian Navy who were sentenced to death in Qatar were released on Monday. The capital punishment was commuted to an extended prison term earlier following diplomatic intervention by New Delhi.
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Congress extends good wishes to Navy veterans who returned to India from Q
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Following this, the Congress General Secretary, Jairam Ramesh posted on X, "The Indian National Congress joins the entire nation in its relief and happiness that the eight former Indian Navy personnel earlier sentenced to death by a court in Qatar have been released and are back home. It sen
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Freed by Qatar, ex-Indian Navy personnel on their return home laud PM Modi
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal intervention in the case of freed ex-Indian Navy veterans, who were initially sentenced to death by Qatar has become the talk of the town after the Ministry of External Affairs announced their release on Monday.
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"Wouldn't have been possible...": Freed Navy vets chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Ja
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Setting foot to their homeland after several agonising months of captivity in Kuwait, seven of the eight Indian navy veterans who were sentenced to death on 'espionage' charges, heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying they wouldn't have been freed had it for the sustained di
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In major diplomatic triumph, Qatar frees Navy veterans jailed on 'espionag
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
In a major diplomatic triumph for India, eight veterans of the Indian Navy who were sentenced to death in Qatar, were released by Doha on Monday.
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India got consular access for its ex-Navy personnel in Qatari Custody: MEA
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The Indian ambassador to Qatar and the embassy officials met with the eight detained veteran navy officials and a legal team is looking into the appeal aspect as 60 days have been provided to file an appeal, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.
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"Indian Navy remains committed to ensuring welfare of our ex-servicemen":
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Indian Navy chief Admiral R Hari Kumar on Sunday said that the Armed Forces of today is a product of the visionary leadership and selfless service of our veterans, adding that the Indian Navy remains committed to ensuring the welfare of our ex-servicemen.
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"60-day window open to appeal...," MEA on Qatar court relief for 8 Indian
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The newly appointed spokesperson for Ministry of External Affairs, Randhir Jaiswal emphasised the temporal significance of this period, stating, "As far as the issue is concerned, there is a time of sixty days when this issue can be appealed in the Court of Cassation, which is the highest
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Taliban frees US Navy veteran Mark Frerichs after over 2 years
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 19 (ANI): US Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who was taken hostage in Afghanistan, was released by the Taliban after more than two years, according to media reports citing a spokesman.
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Taliban's legitimacy impossible until US hostage is released: Ned Price
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 31 (ANI): The United States has raised the release of US Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who was taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago, in every meeting with the Taliban, said State Department Spokesperson Ned Price on Sunday (local time), adding that the
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