Sangeeta Richard

A US court has dismissed visa fraud charges against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose arrest and strip-search in New York sparked a bitter diplomatic row.

Former IAS officer Uttam Khobragde on his daughter Devyani, who is at the centre of a bitter row between India and the United States.

Foreign Secretary Sujata Singh has met senior Finance Ministry officials in this regard, sources said.

As Devyani Khobragade heads back to India, her domestic worker Sangeeta Richard today broke her silence and claimed that she suffered while working for the Indian diplomat and asked other domestic workers not to let anyone "exploit" them.

Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade today asserted that the charges against her in a US court are "false and baseless" and the stand taken by her and the Indian government in the case will be "vindicated".

India today refused the United States' request to waive the diplomatic immunity of senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade after the US accepted her request for UN accreditation, sources said.

Senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was today indicted for visa fraud and making false statements by a grand jury which held that the charges against her will remain even as she headed back to India after being accorded full diplomatic immunity.

Pakistan today sided with India in the row over the treatment meted out to senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the US.

Piling further pressure, India has asked the US Embassy not to screen any movies at the American Centre without obtaining a licence and gave it a deadline of January 20.

The Obama administration is focused on moving Indo-US relationship forward, a senior US official said, even as the paperwork on transfer of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to India's UN mission is under review.

The US has said that the salary of its embassy staff in countries around the world is based on prevailing wages in conjunction with the local law.

Ignoring assertions by unnamed US officials that the case against senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade will not be withdrawn, India today said it would continue to "seriously" pursue any misuse of diplomatic privileges by the US diplomats in India.

The United States does not want the arrest of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to negatively impact its important bilateral relationship with the country, a top US administration official has said.

India has informed the US that Devyani Khobragade was accredited to the UN as a member of the country's delegation to the General Assembly before her arrest in a visa fraud case.

The US today said employment of domestic workers will now be on agenda for the bilateral talks with India with which it is in conversation to "determine the way forward" in resolving the 14-day-long diplomatic row.

A US court has dismissed visa fraud charges against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose arrest and strip-search in New York sparked a bitter diplomatic row.

Former IAS officer Uttam Khobragde on his daughter Devyani, who is at the centre of a bitter row between India and the United States.

Foreign Secretary Sujata Singh has met senior Finance Ministry officials in this regard, sources said.

As Devyani Khobragade heads back to India, her domestic worker Sangeeta Richard today broke her silence and claimed that she suffered while working for the Indian diplomat and asked other domestic workers not to let anyone "exploit" them.

Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade today asserted that the charges against her in a US court are "false and baseless" and the stand taken by her and the Indian government in the case will be "vindicated".

India today refused the United States' request to waive the diplomatic immunity of senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade after the US accepted her request for UN accreditation, sources said.

Senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was today indicted for visa fraud and making false statements by a grand jury which held that the charges against her will remain even as she headed back to India after being accorded full diplomatic immunity.

Pakistan today sided with India in the row over the treatment meted out to senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the US.

Piling further pressure, India has asked the US Embassy not to screen any movies at the American Centre without obtaining a licence and gave it a deadline of January 20.

The Obama administration is focused on moving Indo-US relationship forward, a senior US official said, even as the paperwork on transfer of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to India's UN mission is under review.

The US has said that the salary of its embassy staff in countries around the world is based on prevailing wages in conjunction with the local law.

Ignoring assertions by unnamed US officials that the case against senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade will not be withdrawn, India today said it would continue to "seriously" pursue any misuse of diplomatic privileges by the US diplomats in India.

The United States does not want the arrest of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to negatively impact its important bilateral relationship with the country, a top US administration official has said.

India has informed the US that Devyani Khobragade was accredited to the UN as a member of the country's delegation to the General Assembly before her arrest in a visa fraud case.

The US today said employment of domestic workers will now be on agenda for the bilateral talks with India with which it is in conversation to "determine the way forward" in resolving the 14-day-long diplomatic row.