Woman Foreign Minister

Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock is to become Germany's first woman foreign minister, her party announced Thursday, as the country's incoming coalition government takes shape.

Atiya Begum, a resident of Hyderabad, has written a letter to the Minister of External Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, urging for the rescue of her daughter Aliya Begum, who has been stuck in Qatar's Doha for the last 20 months.

A woman in Pune and a man in West Bengal - both without any history of foreign travel - tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, signalling a worrying trend as COVID-19 cases in India neared 315. People braced for the nationwide "Janata Curfew" on Sunday from 7 am and 9 pm - billed as a day of voluntary social distancing and widely seen as a pi...

I am proud to have lived my life in two of the world's great democracies - as a citizen of India for almost 35 years, and today, as a proud American citizen and the first Indian American woman elected to the House of Representatives.

The S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 Indexes posted their worst single-day fall of 2019 as investor sentiment was spooked by the Budget proposals. The Finance Bill which was tabled in the parliament by the country's first full-time woman Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman called for increasing the minimum public shareholding for all listed companie...

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, who is known for her prompt responses on Twitter to calls for help from Indians abroad, shared what she learnt after taking up the top role in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet. The minister said she now understands English of all accents and grammar.

A Tunisian woman's professed love for India moved foreign minister Sushma Swaraj Tuesday, prompting her to say that she must have been "an Indian in her previous life".

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Thursday there was no timeframe for the assessment of the case of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, a Saudi woman who fled to Thailand saying she feared her family would kill her.

The Netherlands recalled staff from its embassy in Pakistan following threats after providing shelter to the lawyer of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case, the Dutch foreign minister said on Monday.

Former Union minister MJ Akbar has been asked to come and record his statement on October 31 by a Delhi court which today agreed to hear his defamation case against one of the multiple women who accused him of sexual harassment. Mr Akbar has trashed the allegations. His lawyers today said he had to quit his job as the junior foreign minister becaus...

Among the things that people bond over, love for films and music pretty much tops the list. Proof of that was seen recently during External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's maiden visit to Uzbekistan. A video posted on Twitter shows an Uzbek woman belting out her rendition of Ichak Daana while the foreign minister stood next to her.

Russia's foreign minister told his U.S. counterpart on Saturday that a woman arrested in the United States on accusations she was a Russian agent had been detained on "fabricated charges" and should be released.

Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj has won much affection from people on social media for her prompt responses and help. Millions of grateful Indians have now been joined by a woman from Pakistan, whose wish may not please her Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif.

A young woman who said she was forced to marry a Pakistani man at gunpoint broke down as she met her little daughter in Delhi for the first time in weeks. Sushma Swaraj, caught up in the emotional homecoming, said, "It means everything to us that for a woman trapped in a foreign land, the Indian High Commission is a ray of hope."

The Indian woman who sought refuge at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, accusing a Pakistani man of forcing her at gunpoint to marry him, is expected to return to India today. Uzma will come back via Wagah border, escorted by the officials of the Indian High Commission. Uzma's brother, who had sought the government's help in rescuing her, wa...

Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock is to become Germany's first woman foreign minister, her party announced Thursday, as the country's incoming coalition government takes shape.

Atiya Begum, a resident of Hyderabad, has written a letter to the Minister of External Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, urging for the rescue of her daughter Aliya Begum, who has been stuck in Qatar's Doha for the last 20 months.

A woman in Pune and a man in West Bengal - both without any history of foreign travel - tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, signalling a worrying trend as COVID-19 cases in India neared 315. People braced for the nationwide "Janata Curfew" on Sunday from 7 am and 9 pm - billed as a day of voluntary social distancing and widely seen as a pi...

I am proud to have lived my life in two of the world's great democracies - as a citizen of India for almost 35 years, and today, as a proud American citizen and the first Indian American woman elected to the House of Representatives.

The S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 Indexes posted their worst single-day fall of 2019 as investor sentiment was spooked by the Budget proposals. The Finance Bill which was tabled in the parliament by the country's first full-time woman Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman called for increasing the minimum public shareholding for all listed companie...

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, who is known for her prompt responses on Twitter to calls for help from Indians abroad, shared what she learnt after taking up the top role in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet. The minister said she now understands English of all accents and grammar.

A Tunisian woman's professed love for India moved foreign minister Sushma Swaraj Tuesday, prompting her to say that she must have been "an Indian in her previous life".

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Thursday there was no timeframe for the assessment of the case of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, a Saudi woman who fled to Thailand saying she feared her family would kill her.

The Netherlands recalled staff from its embassy in Pakistan following threats after providing shelter to the lawyer of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case, the Dutch foreign minister said on Monday.

Former Union minister MJ Akbar has been asked to come and record his statement on October 31 by a Delhi court which today agreed to hear his defamation case against one of the multiple women who accused him of sexual harassment. Mr Akbar has trashed the allegations. His lawyers today said he had to quit his job as the junior foreign minister becaus...

Among the things that people bond over, love for films and music pretty much tops the list. Proof of that was seen recently during External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's maiden visit to Uzbekistan. A video posted on Twitter shows an Uzbek woman belting out her rendition of Ichak Daana while the foreign minister stood next to her.

Russia's foreign minister told his U.S. counterpart on Saturday that a woman arrested in the United States on accusations she was a Russian agent had been detained on "fabricated charges" and should be released.

Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj has won much affection from people on social media for her prompt responses and help. Millions of grateful Indians have now been joined by a woman from Pakistan, whose wish may not please her Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif.

A young woman who said she was forced to marry a Pakistani man at gunpoint broke down as she met her little daughter in Delhi for the first time in weeks. Sushma Swaraj, caught up in the emotional homecoming, said, "It means everything to us that for a woman trapped in a foreign land, the Indian High Commission is a ray of hope."

The Indian woman who sought refuge at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, accusing a Pakistani man of forcing her at gunpoint to marry him, is expected to return to India today. Uzma will come back via Wagah border, escorted by the officials of the Indian High Commission. Uzma's brother, who had sought the government's help in rescuing her, wa...