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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has been upgraded from the 'Y' category to 'Z', official sources said on Thursday. The Union home ministry has asked the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to take the charge of his security, currently provided by the Delhi Police, they said.

Operation Ajay" on Wednesday to help Indians stuck in Israel to return home as fresh tension triggered in the region as Hamas militants made a series of brazen attacks on Israeli towns over the weekend. As per the external affairs ministry, around 18,000 Indians are currently residing in Israel.

Joly held a «secret meeting» with her Indian counterpart S Jaishankar in Washington last month, a media report has said, amid a diplomatic row between the two countries over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in June. The report by the Financial Times on Tuesday came even as Canada is yet to comply with India's communication to Ottawa to withdraw over three dozen of its 62 diplomats in the country. The Ministry of External Affairs declined to comment when asked about the reported meeting.

Indian Ocean region to effectively address the development challenges as it warned them to be clear of the dangers of «hidden agendas» in unviable projects or unsustainable debt, in an apparent reference to China which is accused by the West of «debt trap» diplomacy. Speaking at the 23rd Council of Ministers Meeting of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) in Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that it is important to maintain the Indian Ocean as a free, open and inclusive space based on the UN Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS), as the Constitution of the Seas.

Hamas and Israel, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar seeking intervention to ensure the safety of Indian citizens in Israel. «A good number of people around 7000 are from the state of Kerala. The continuing hostilities are putting these civilians to extreme hardship and their family members are in a state of extreme anxiety,» Vijayan said in the October 9 dated letter to the Union Minister Jaishankar. «I request your good self to intervene in every possible manner to ensure the safety of our citizens in Israel,» the Kerala chief minister wrote. A woman from Kerala working as a caregiver in Israel was injured in the conflict on Saturday. On Monday, the CPI-M Kerala Secretariat in a statement had urged the central government to take steps to ensure the safety of the Keralites stuck in Israel.

Visiting Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan who was on Tuesday conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by the Jawaharlal Nehru University said that the honour will be forever etched in her memory as it is the first award to her in a foreign country. Speaking at JNU's Special Convocation ceremony conferring the Honorary Doctorate to her, President Hassan expressed her gratitude for the honour, which she termed added «colour» to her life history. «Namaste everybody,» the Tanzanian President said at the beginning of her speech. «The world says, there is no midway in falling in love with India, be it an Indian song, an Indian movie, or Indian cuisine, it is very difficult to resist an Indian charm. I experienced it when I came to India for the first time in 1998 to study in Hyderabad.

India and Tanzania will sign 15 agreements covering different areas of cooperation, Tanzanian Foreign Minister January Yusuf Makamba said ahead of the bilateral talks between visiting President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. The presidential visit from Tanzania to India is taking place after a span of more than eight years. «This is a very important visit for Tanzania.

External affairs minister S Jaishankar defended the government's decision to suspend issuance of visas to Canadian citizens, telling members of Parliament from across the political spectrum that the «temporary arrangement» was unavoidable for the safety of Indian diplomats, said people privy to the information. He also said Canada has generally not been cooperative and has denied several requests for extradition of suspects wanted in India, they said. Jaishankar chaired a parliamentary consultative committee meeting on Saturday to discuss the G20 summit hosted by India and the country's presidency of the grouping of 19 nations, the European Union and the African Union. During the meeting, which was attended by MPs from six parties, majority of them from the opposition, several MPs, including Rajya Sabha member from Punjab Vikramjit Singh Sahney of the Aam Aadmi Party, raised the issues of suspension of visas to Canadian citizens and safety of Indian students in Canada.

New Delhi’s decision to ask Canada to reduce its number of diplomats in India by over 40 is the latest in the downward spiral of India-Canada relations. There is now a danger that India’s words and actions are going well past the point of serving its long-term interests. Whatever the truth of the multiple allegations hurled at each other by India and Canada, the fact is that as the emerging power, an Asian one and a developing country still, the former cannot and must not lose sight of the fact that global institutional structures and narratives are still not entirely in its favour.

Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a US State Department official said on Monday. Secretary of State Tony Blinken raised the issue during his meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar here last week. Addressing a daily news conference, State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller said, “As he made clear then, I’ll reiterate now, we remain in close coordination with our Canadian colleagues on this question." “We have engaged with the Indian government on a number of occasions to urge them to cooperate with Canada’s investigation.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar. «We remain in close coordination with our Canadian colleagues on this question,» US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said while responding to a question related to Nijjar's killing in Canada. Miller's remarks came during a daily press briefing on Monday (US local time). Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently alleged that the Indian government was behind the fatal shooting of Nijjar. Nijjar, who was a designated terrorist in India, was gunned down outside a Gurdwara, in a parking area in Canada's Surrey, British Columbia on June 18. Trudeau, during a debate in the Canadian Parliament, claimed his country's national security officials had reasons to believe that «agents of the Indian government» carried out the killing of the Canadian citizen, who also served as the president of Surrey's Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara. However, India has outrightly rejected the claims, calling it 'absurd' and 'motivated'. Notably, Canada has yet to provide any public evidence to support the claim about the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Miller said the US has engaged with the Indian government on a number of occasions to urge them to cooperate with Canada's investigation. He said US State Secretary Antony Blinken had an opportunity to discuss the issue with Foreign Minister S Jaishankar during their meeting on Friday. Meanwhile, Trudeau has said that Ottawa wants to «work constructively with India» regarding the allegations. While addressing a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trudeau said, «In regards to India, Canada has shared the credible allegations that I talked about on Monday. With India, we did that many weeks ago.

NEW DELHI : Speaking in Washington, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar declared it’s difficult to put a limit on India’s relations with the US.

Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing on Canadian soil have further worsened ties. Canada hasn’t provided any evidence.

India-US ties one of the most defining partnerships, several top Biden administration officials praised External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's commitment to this bond, calling him the «architect» of modern US-India relations. These accolades came during a special reception hosted by India's Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, in honor of External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.

Sikh leaders at a Glasgow gurdwara. This incident comes on the heels of a slow ramping up of activities targeting Indian missions and officials abroad, particularly in Canada, Britain and the US.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, stressing that like the Chandrayaan, bilateral ties will go to the moon and even beyond. Jaishankar's remarks came as he addressed several hundred Indian-Americans gathered at the India House from various parts of the US to attend the 'Celebrating Colours of Friendship' event organised by the Embassy of India here on Saturday. «There is one clear message today that our relationship is at an all-time high.

Jaishankar has met US Defence Secretary Loyd Austin and held a productive conversation with him on deepening bilateral defence cooperation, including in the co-production of defence articles, and exchanged perspectives on a variety of security issues. He also met Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. After his meeting with Austin at the Pentagon on Friday, Jaishankar posted on X, «Productive conversation on our bilateral defence cooperation.

Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday. He was asked if the issue of Canadian allegations was raised during the meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NSA Jake Sullivan. “I have already answered it," the minister replied.

minorities in India, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday dismissed concerns around discrimination on grounds of religion saying everything had become fairer. Speaking at an event in Washington DC on Friday, Jaishankar said, «Today, since you brought up the issue of minorities in India, What is the test really of fair and good governance or of the balance of a society? It would be whether in terms of the amenities, the benefits, the access, the rights, do you discriminate or not and in every society in the world, at some point, there's been some discrimination on some basis.

India-Canada row, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that both sides have articulated each other's views on the matter. Addressing a press conference in Washington DC on Friday, Jaishankar said, «I saw what the Americans have said, and hopefully, the Americans have seen what I have said. I think both of us have articulated our respective views...so I really don't know, beyond that, what else I can add». Jaishankar further said that the larger issue in the matter is the «permissiveness» regarding the incidents of violence and extremism in Canada, which has been flagged by India. «No incident is isolated and no incident is the totality.

United Nations, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said the world body lacks credibility and, to a large degree, effectiveness. Without naming India, Jaishankar lamented that the fifth largest economy of the world is not in the United Nations Security Council. Jaishankar made the remarks while participating in a discussion at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.