Gopal Baghlay

Three years after they went missing, the government on Friday said that 39 Indian construction workers mostly from Punjab, who were taken hostage by ISIS terrorists in Iraq's war-torn Mosul, were alive and "everything possible" was being done to ensure their safe return.

Three years after they went missing, the government on Friday said that 39 Indian construction workers mostly from Punjab, who were taken hostage by ISIS terrorists in Iraq's war-torn Mosul, were alive and "everything possible" was being done to ensure their safe return.