Tag: Shankar
The government on Friday introduced The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 banning Triple Talaq in the Lok Sabha amid criticism that it will harm Muslim families and was discriminatory.....
The Lok Sabha members on Friday unanimously condemned Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan's objectionable comment against BJP MP Rama Devi and demanded "exemplary" action against him. The Speaker has assured to take a decision in the matter soon.....
The BJP on Monday termed as "unfortunate" the comments of senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram who is reported to have said that had Kashmir been a Hindu majority state, the BJP wouldn't have revoked Article 370.....
The future of Sino-Indian ties depends on mutual sensitivity to each other's core concerns and it's vital to "not let differences become disputes", External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar conveyed this to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, here on Monday, as the two sides met for the first time after exchanges became a bit frosty over the changed status of Jammu and Kashmir.....
Dismissing the recent scuffle between Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh as a "face-off" that was resolved, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Tuesday said the second informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, set for October in India, would be held in "as warm a spirit as Wuhan".....
India on Tuesday asserted that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is its territory and it expects to have "physical jurisdiction" over PoK one day even as it stated that revocation of Article 370 was a purely internal affair which it would not discuss with Pakistan.....
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the Kashmir issue should not be seen through a communal lens as the Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind, one of the leading Islamic organisations in India, had backed the changes there, and the fact that India's relations with the Muslim nations of the Gulf have seen an upward trajectory in the past five years negates the idea that the government is anti-Muslim.....
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday slammed at External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar for covering up Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "incompetence" saying he should teach some lessons on diplomacy.....
The BJP on Thursday demanded that the Congress party must apologise for alleging corruption in the Rafale deal in the wake of the Supreme Court dismissing a review petition seeking a probe into the fighter jet deal.....
Parents of children stuck in Iran met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar at the Kashmir International Conference Centre here on Monday.....