New Delhi: British Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed a plain-speaking streak during a tour of Turkey and India that raises questions over whether it is down to youthful inexperience or a bold new approach to diplomacy.
He caused anger in Israel by saying in Turkey that Gaza was a “prison camp”, and went on to offend Islamabad when he suggested in front of an Indian audience in Bangalore that Pakistan “promoted the export of terror”.
While in Ankara, he also dismissed opponents of Turkish membership of the European Union as “protectionist, …
New Delhi: Ticking off Pakistan’s Foreign Minister S M Qureshi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said agreements had been reached on a number of issues at the recent Indo-Pak talks but the way he handled the press conference later “could have been avoided”.
Singh hoped that Qureshi will accept the invitation extended to him to visit India and the two countries would be able to “restore” the dialogue process “sooner or later” and give it a “proper sense of purpose”.
In his first reaction after the July 5 foreign ministerial talks …
New Delhi: Former Gujarat minister Amit Shah is under arrest for the alleged staged encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh is harassment, but the link of politicians to the murder isn’t over yet.
CNN-IBN learns the CBI is investigating BJP leader Ghulab Chand Kataria, who was the Home Minister of Rajasthan in the Vasundhara Raje government, in connection with the 2005 murder of Sohrabuddin. CNN-IBN has a copy of a statement given by Azam Khan, who was in jail along with Sohrabuddin’s associate Tulsiram Prajapati in Udaipur from 2005 to 2006, implicating …
New Delhi: Insurance regulator IRDA on Thursday asked the insurance companies to respond to the grievances of customers within two weeks or face penal action, a move aimed at protecting the interest of policy holders.
“An insurer shall send a written acknowledgement to a complainant within three working days of the receipt of the grievance. Where the grievance is not resolved within three working days, an insurer shall resolve the grievance within two weeks of its receipt and send a final letter of resolution,” IRDA said in its grievance redressal guidelines.
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