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Gopal Baglay takes charge as new MEA Spokesperson
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 27 (ANI): Gopal Baglay on Monday took charge as the new spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), replacing Vikas Swarup, who has been appointed as the Indian High Commissioner to Canada.
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Vikas Swarup appointed India's next envoy to Canada
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Feb. 16 (ANI): Official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs of India, Vikas Swarup, has been appointed as India's next High Commissioner to Canada.
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PM Modi expresses happiness at progress with Israel in Agriculture sector
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 10 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed happiness at the significant progress made in partnership with Israel in the agriculture sector and the successful adoption of knowledge and expertise by the Israeli Centres of Excellence by the Indian farmer
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PM to launch 'Pravasi Kaushal Vikas Yojana' for Indians seeking
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Jan. 8 (ANI): Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will soon launch the 'Pravasi Kaushal Vikas Yojana' which is targeted at the Indian youth seeking overseas employment.
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India in touch with Yemen, Saudi Arabia to secure Father Tom's releas
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 26 (ANI): Responding to an Indian Catholic priest's request, who was abducted in Yemen this year, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Monday said India is in regular touch with Saudi Arabia and Yemen authorities and is underta
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India says it is conscious for international obligations on Kishenganga, R
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.14 (ANI): A day after the World Bank asked both India and Pakistan to consider alternative ways to resolve their disagreements over the Indus Water Treaty 1960, the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Vikas Swarup, said on Wednesday that India is
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India ready to engage with Pak to resolve differences on Indus dispute
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 13 (ANI): External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Tuesday said India remains fully conscious of its international obligations and is ready to engage in further consultations with Pakistan on the matter of resolving current differences over the Kishengan
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Punishment on Tamil prisoners in Qatar harsh, India has filed appeal: MEA
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 8 (ANI): External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Thursday said the penalty imposed on two men from Tamil Nadu, who were sentenced to death in Doha for allegedly murdering an elderly woman in 2012, is too harsh and a lawyer has been appointed while addin
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Yoga enters UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 1 (ANI): Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup on Thursday said that yoga has been inscribed in the UNESCO's representative list as the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity which would enable it to "potentially foment a dialogue of ideas of peac
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Foreign Secy met 'very senior levels' of Trump transition team:
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 24 (ANI): Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Thursday confirmed that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar had recently interacted with very senior levels of the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump transition team, besides meeting the members of t
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MEA rejects Pak allegations of India's denial of overflight clearance
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 24 (ANI): With Islamabad accusing India of rejecting overflight clearance to Pakistan, Ministry of External Affairs spokes person Vikas Swarup on Thursday rejected the allegations, saying that New Delhi expects that Pakistan will respect the requirements mutually agre
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India to support if Lankan govt helps in remigration of refugees: MEA
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 20(ANI): India will have no problem if Sri Lankan refugees want to return their homeland with the help of their government, said Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Vikas Swarup in response a question on sending back Sri Lankan refugees living in
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