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The former Indian Ambassador to the US opined that Biden will emerge as a 'foreign policy president' as he has vast experience in the field.
Observing that the drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan by 2014 is now a reality, a top Indian diplomat said there is need to ensure that Taliban does not regain prominence after that.
External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Friday talked tough on the Shah Rukh Khan detention case at a New York aiport, saying that such incidents could not continue anymore. "It has become a habit these days to first detain and then apologise. This can't continue," said Krishna, who is in Moscow currently.
Indian companies have invested more than USD 26 billion in the US in the last five years and the IT companies employ more than one lakh people in that country, New Delhi's top diplomat in Washington has said.
Asking corporate America to invest in India and overlook "short-term challenges" that they are facing now, the new Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao assured the top US business leaders that they will not lose a long term bet on their investments.
Pakistan and India agreed on Friday to work on new nuclear confidence-building measures and expanded trade and travel across the ceasefire line dividing disputed Kashmir.
India is reviewing the policy of providing domestic help to its diplomats abroad, against the backdrop of allegations of mistreatment of a former maid faced by its Consul General in New York Prabu Dayal
Last year, the Public Diplomacy division of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) began an experiment. Joint Secretary Navdeep Suri describes his motives thus: "It was partly recognition that most of the work we were doing was, subconsciously, aimed at 'People Like Us'.
Forbes India spoke to Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao on the new social media initiatives attempted by the Ministry of External Affairs
Have Indo-Pakistan relations turned a page and opened a new chapter or is that the triumph of euphoria and sentiment over substance? That in a sense is the key issue CNBC-TV18's Karan Thapar explores with the Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao.
With rising death toll in anti-government protests in Libya, government today decided to evacuate its nationals numbering about 18,000 from that country.
Ending weeks of uncertainty, India today decided to pay for Iranian crude oil in euro through a German bank based in Hamburg, a finance ministry official said today.
Indian foreign secretary Nirupama Rao is likely to meet her Pakistani counterpart in Bhutan's capital next month, India's foreign office said on Sunday, as the two nuclear-armed neighbours try to take forward a stalled peace process.
