Libya Situation

India has relaxed its travel ban on Libya from the previous advisory after assessing the prevailing security situation in the country, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's comments comparing India's democracy with Iraq under dictator Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi is an insult to the 80 crore voters in the country, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said today. The only time the country faced such a situation was during the Emergency (from 1975 to '77), said Mr Javadekar, with...

Dineshwar Sharma, the centre's interlocutor for Kashmir who has spoken about radicalisation of the youth there as his big challenge, says he was worried that if radicalisation picks up, "the situation will be like Yemen, Syria and Libya" and "finish the Kashmir society itself".

India has banned its nationals from travelling to Libya, irrespective of the purpose of the visit, in view of the prevailing security situation in that country.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today met her Tunisian counterpart Taieb Baccouche and discussed the situation in Libya where three Indians are held hostage by Islamic State.

UN envoy Bernardino Leon insisted today that efforts to clinch a political deal to end rampant insecurity in Libya will carry on although several parties have rejected his proposals.

President Barack Obama on Friday urged Gulf nations to help calm the chaotic political situation in Libya, saying that outside military action would not be enough to help reduce tensions in the war-ravaged North African country.

Gunmen stormed a luxury Libyan hotel popular with foreigners Tuesday, killing at least three guards and taking hostages, a security official said.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the Centre was making its best efforts for ensuring safety of Indian nationals in strife-torn Libya and bringing them back.

Eighteen Sudanese have been killed by a rocket strike in the Libyan capital, but Khartoum says the situation does not yet warrant an evacuation of its nationals, official media reported.

Spain's Foreign Ministry says it is temporarily evacuating its ambassador and most embassy staff from Libya because of the worsening security situation in the capital, Tripoli.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today chaired a high-level meeting on the situation in Libya during it was decided to send a Joint Secretary-level officer to facilitate the return of Indians from the strife-torn country.

The US on Tuesday warned that its citizens leave Libya "immediately" due to "unpredictable and unstable" security situation in the North African nation.

Attackers set off a bomb next to a wall of the US Consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Wednesday, the State Department said, causing no casualties. The blast underlined the unstable security situation in Libya, more than seven months after the death of deposed dictator Moammar Gaddafi.

Following a day of dramatic developments in Libya, President Barack Obama said on Sunday night that the situation there has reached a "tipping point" and that control of the capital was "slipping from the grasp of a tyrant." He called on Muammar Gaddafi to accept reality and relinquish power.

India has relaxed its travel ban on Libya from the previous advisory after assessing the prevailing security situation in the country, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's comments comparing India's democracy with Iraq under dictator Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi is an insult to the 80 crore voters in the country, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said today. The only time the country faced such a situation was during the Emergency (from 1975 to '77), said Mr Javadekar, with...

Dineshwar Sharma, the centre's interlocutor for Kashmir who has spoken about radicalisation of the youth there as his big challenge, says he was worried that if radicalisation picks up, "the situation will be like Yemen, Syria and Libya" and "finish the Kashmir society itself".

India has banned its nationals from travelling to Libya, irrespective of the purpose of the visit, in view of the prevailing security situation in that country.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today met her Tunisian counterpart Taieb Baccouche and discussed the situation in Libya where three Indians are held hostage by Islamic State.

UN envoy Bernardino Leon insisted today that efforts to clinch a political deal to end rampant insecurity in Libya will carry on although several parties have rejected his proposals.

President Barack Obama on Friday urged Gulf nations to help calm the chaotic political situation in Libya, saying that outside military action would not be enough to help reduce tensions in the war-ravaged North African country.

Gunmen stormed a luxury Libyan hotel popular with foreigners Tuesday, killing at least three guards and taking hostages, a security official said.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the Centre was making its best efforts for ensuring safety of Indian nationals in strife-torn Libya and bringing them back.

Eighteen Sudanese have been killed by a rocket strike in the Libyan capital, but Khartoum says the situation does not yet warrant an evacuation of its nationals, official media reported.

Spain's Foreign Ministry says it is temporarily evacuating its ambassador and most embassy staff from Libya because of the worsening security situation in the capital, Tripoli.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today chaired a high-level meeting on the situation in Libya during it was decided to send a Joint Secretary-level officer to facilitate the return of Indians from the strife-torn country.

The US on Tuesday warned that its citizens leave Libya "immediately" due to "unpredictable and unstable" security situation in the North African nation.

Attackers set off a bomb next to a wall of the US Consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Wednesday, the State Department said, causing no casualties. The blast underlined the unstable security situation in Libya, more than seven months after the death of deposed dictator Moammar Gaddafi.

Following a day of dramatic developments in Libya, President Barack Obama said on Sunday night that the situation there has reached a "tipping point" and that control of the capital was "slipping from the grasp of a tyrant." He called on Muammar Gaddafi to accept reality and relinquish power.