Swaraj Nidhi

Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and is a matter strictly internal to India, New Delhi said on Saturday after the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) criticised India on Kashmir in a resolution adopted by the influential grouping of 57 countries. The resolution came just a day after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, as the guest o...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan should "walk the talk" on peace and take strong action against his minister for his "googly remark", union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said today. Ms Badal was one of the two central ministers representing India at last week's groundbreaking ceremony for the pilgrim corridor to Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara in Pakist...

Union Minister and former editor MJ Akbar has been accused of sexual harassment in the snowballing #MeToo movement in India that began with a thread on Twitter. His boss Sushma Swaraj, the Union Foreign Minister, did not respond when she was asked today about any action against the minister.

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's address at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has "disappointed" Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who feels that all the Pakistan bashing in New York was aimed at the BJP voters. His other objection to her speech on Saturday was that it didn't portray India in a good light.

The United Nations is losing significance in the absence of fundamental reforms, said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday. As she spoke at length on cross-border terrorism and the worsening India-Pakistan relations, she also took an opportunity to talk about the need for reforms at ...

Less than a month after taking charge of Pakistan after a tumultuous national election, Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan has written to his Indian counterpart seeking to "restart the stalled dialogue process" between the two neighbours.

A quick look at Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's Twitter handle is enough to understand why she is so popular on this dynamic platform. Her witty tweets, prompt response to the grievances from across the globe keep her account buzzing. Something similar was observed on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter handle on Sunday. PM Modi, who has a huge...

An internal investigation by the foreign ministry has found that the official who allegedly harassed and inter-faith couple, had indeed overstepped his brief. Sources in the ministry said passport official Vikas Mishra "overstepped bounds of duty" and his transfer order stays. The officer's behavior was flagged by Tanvi Seth, who alleged that he ha...

Not long after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj became a target of online trolls, it's Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi now who is being intimidated on social media. Ms Chaturvedi shared on Twitter that a troll, @GirishK1605, threatened to harm her 10-year-old daughter. The Twitter handle is no longer available.

Devotees at Kailash Mansarovar are not being allowed to take a holy dip in the Mansarovar Lake, alleges a priest, who is leading a delegation of devotees from India. In a video posted on Twitter, Sanjeev Thakur said that China has issued an order in this regard, but Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj refuted the claim.

Fugitive tycoon Vijay Mallya, fighting India's request to the UK to extradite him, has argued in a British court about the poor condition of Indian jails. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a sharp retort for his British counterpart Theresa May on the subject when they met earlier this year, Sushma Swaraj revealed on Monday.

Addressing her annual press conference on the Modi government's fourth anniversary, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj ruled out a dialogue with Pakistan unless terror emanating from there into India, stopped. "We are ready for talks. But there's a caveat -- terror and talks cannot go together. This has always been our position," Ms Swaraj told reporte...

As the government today confirmed that all 39 Indians missing in Iraq since 2014 had been killed by the terrorist group ISIS, questions swirled around the account of Harjit Masih, the man who escaped and claimed that he had seen the others massacred

After Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj described in detail the mistreatment that Kulbhushan Jadhav's wife Chetankul and mother Avanti had to face when they went to meet him in Islamabad on Monday, Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad called Pakistan's behaviour "an insult to 130 crore Indians" and cautioned if "another country misbehaves with our ...

The foreign ministers of China, Russia and India - who met in Delhi today - condemned terrorism in all its forms and named its control as a key focus area.

Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and is a matter strictly internal to India, New Delhi said on Saturday after the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) criticised India on Kashmir in a resolution adopted by the influential grouping of 57 countries. The resolution came just a day after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, as the guest o...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan should "walk the talk" on peace and take strong action against his minister for his "googly remark", union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said today. Ms Badal was one of the two central ministers representing India at last week's groundbreaking ceremony for the pilgrim corridor to Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara in Pakist...

Union Minister and former editor MJ Akbar has been accused of sexual harassment in the snowballing #MeToo movement in India that began with a thread on Twitter. His boss Sushma Swaraj, the Union Foreign Minister, did not respond when she was asked today about any action against the minister.

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's address at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has "disappointed" Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who feels that all the Pakistan bashing in New York was aimed at the BJP voters. His other objection to her speech on Saturday was that it didn't portray India in a good light.

The United Nations is losing significance in the absence of fundamental reforms, said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday. As she spoke at length on cross-border terrorism and the worsening India-Pakistan relations, she also took an opportunity to talk about the need for reforms at ...

Less than a month after taking charge of Pakistan after a tumultuous national election, Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan has written to his Indian counterpart seeking to "restart the stalled dialogue process" between the two neighbours.

A quick look at Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's Twitter handle is enough to understand why she is so popular on this dynamic platform. Her witty tweets, prompt response to the grievances from across the globe keep her account buzzing. Something similar was observed on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter handle on Sunday. PM Modi, who has a huge...

An internal investigation by the foreign ministry has found that the official who allegedly harassed and inter-faith couple, had indeed overstepped his brief. Sources in the ministry said passport official Vikas Mishra "overstepped bounds of duty" and his transfer order stays. The officer's behavior was flagged by Tanvi Seth, who alleged that he ha...

Not long after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj became a target of online trolls, it's Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi now who is being intimidated on social media. Ms Chaturvedi shared on Twitter that a troll, @GirishK1605, threatened to harm her 10-year-old daughter. The Twitter handle is no longer available.

Devotees at Kailash Mansarovar are not being allowed to take a holy dip in the Mansarovar Lake, alleges a priest, who is leading a delegation of devotees from India. In a video posted on Twitter, Sanjeev Thakur said that China has issued an order in this regard, but Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj refuted the claim.

Fugitive tycoon Vijay Mallya, fighting India's request to the UK to extradite him, has argued in a British court about the poor condition of Indian jails. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a sharp retort for his British counterpart Theresa May on the subject when they met earlier this year, Sushma Swaraj revealed on Monday.

Addressing her annual press conference on the Modi government's fourth anniversary, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj ruled out a dialogue with Pakistan unless terror emanating from there into India, stopped. "We are ready for talks. But there's a caveat -- terror and talks cannot go together. This has always been our position," Ms Swaraj told reporte...

As the government today confirmed that all 39 Indians missing in Iraq since 2014 had been killed by the terrorist group ISIS, questions swirled around the account of Harjit Masih, the man who escaped and claimed that he had seen the others massacred

After Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj described in detail the mistreatment that Kulbhushan Jadhav's wife Chetankul and mother Avanti had to face when they went to meet him in Islamabad on Monday, Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad called Pakistan's behaviour "an insult to 130 crore Indians" and cautioned if "another country misbehaves with our ...

The foreign ministers of China, Russia and India - who met in Delhi today - condemned terrorism in all its forms and named its control as a key focus area.